The audio of yesterday’s interview with Woody Tasch is now online and you can listen below.
As always joining Julie and Jeremy in the WPRK studio is always a pleasure but yesterday’s interview was particularly incredible. Slow Money is such a great “catch-all” for me. About 85% of my posts have to do with food and in particular our local food system and the consumers and producers that make it all happen.
I can think of no greater investment of my time and finances then to support our local food producers. There are so many local consumers who have never tasted a real vine ripe tomato or who settle for produce the ripened on a cross country truck rather than down the street. Slow Money is the perfect combination of ethos and praxis and our interview with Woody should have a little bit of something for everyone.
I’ll be joining Julie and Jeremy today on Front Porch Radio WPRK 91.5 to interview Woody Tasch the author of “Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money“. He is also the president of the non-profit that bears the same name which seeks to create sources of capital to nurture the services and social networks necessary to support 1% of our assets being invested in our local food systems. We’ll post the recorded version here and on FPR as soon as we can if you aren’t able to listen live.
You can listen life from FPR website – follow this link – and click on the “listen Live” options on the right side of the page.
Just want to share a link to a nice write up in the O-Sentinel about Urban Gardening titled:”Our future FarmVille?” by Víctor Manuel Ramos. While I knew about the Winter Park Health Foundations $150k grant for community gardens in our area it was news to me that:
If you read any of the “green” leaning blogs in Central Florida chances are good you’ve heard about the book and movement Slow Money. Well this summer from June 9th – 11th I’ll be up at the Slow Money’s National Gathering in Vermont to brush shoulders with and learn from some of our nation’s most progressive thinkers.
“Slow money is a new way of connecting investors to local food systems. A new way of connecting money, culture and the soil. A new kind of social investing and philanthropy for the 21st century.”
There are so many things already happening in Central Florida that are a model of the Slow Money ethos and how it stimulates local economies, food systems and entrepreneurship. We are doing a great job investing our social and economic capital in sustainable and thoughtful ventures that provide quality products and services to our local community.
Speaking of which, Dandelion Communitea Cafe and Homegrown Co-op both ranked in the top 10 in the recent Slow Money Business contest. Kudos to Julie and Emily for these recognitions as well as giving so much more of yourselves and your businesses than profit alone would dictate.
It is my hope that other Central Floridians will make the trek to the national gathering so that we can draw strength and encouragement from like minded Americans and bring back new insights for our burgeoning Slow Money movement.
Please let me know if you’re going and likewise for those of you who can’t I will be sure to blog all about it. Please click on the image above or on this link to get more information about the Gathering.
Today I visited the Winter Park Community Garden behind First Pres Winter Park. I shot some video and took some still of this incredible community garden. I’ll be posting more about the visit and the awesome young lady who is the garden curator soon.
But wanted to share this video with you before the weekend was over. I caught wind of this thank Emily Ruff at the Homegrown Co-op. She posted about Transition Orlando and their upcoming gathering. While there I learned about the 350 Garden Challenge and ended up spending some time in my garden pruning, watering, transplanting and picking a spot to plant my kiwi’s tomorrow. I hope you find this video as inspiring as I did.
I have the pleasure of working with some really talented people on my current project for Cape Canaveral National Seashore. One of these creatives is Brian Tortorelli. Brian is a consummate Renaissance artist. Trained in Digital Media to metal smithing, he is at the helm of our Turtle Cam’s aluminum frame fabrication.
But he is not just a whiz with a soldering iron, he also has a softer side. His current project, SEED, involves a community mural project tied in with a community project at a local elementary school. Check out this incredible video shot by Aaron Hose’ capturing the progress of the project to date.
Great work guys and keep it up. You are an inspiration.
Having lived in Miami years ago it is heartening to see a story like this. We are so close to having something like this in Central Florida. With the success of our community gardens it is only a matter of time until we could have a proper Urban CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). CNN thanks for the inspiration.
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As always joining Julie and Jeremy in the WPRK studio is always a pleasure but yesterday’s interview was particularly incredible. Slow Money is such a great “catch-all” for me. About 85% of my posts have to do with food and in particular our local food system and the consumers and producers that make it all happen.
Just want to share 
