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Ivc farm presentation
1. I – Why Venture Capital & Sustainable Ag? II – Innovations III – What’s next IV - Ethics Ag 2.0 Sustainable Agriculture meets Venture Capital Margot Biehle
23. Questions: 1 – When is it okay for a farmer to make money? 2 – How much is okay for a farmer to make? 3 – When does a farmer’s success = “selling out” 4 – If a farmer takes money from someone else, is it better if it’s a bank? An investor? Agriprudence: Ag meets Ethics
As Wendy said – if the only people moving sustainable agriculture forward is hippies like us, we’re SCREWED!! We have to push it out there ….
Intersection of consumer awareness/demand, growth of new market, attention of investment community and climate change crisis = opportunity. No one knows that crisis = opportunity more than the investment community.
Old turn and burn doesn’t’ work in a collapsed market like we have today. Investment community calls sustainable agriculture the “new clean tech.” Why? Because the market is bursting with new technology and ways to create EFFICIENCY.
Organic market – 3% today, if keeps growing by 20%, it will be 10% of the market by 2016. public taking notice of public health issues with current food crisis. Increased population and diminished resources
Greenhouse, hydroponic rooftop farm, deal with inner city developer in NYC to put a rooftop farm on housing development – enough to feed 45 residents, use reclaimed water from the roofs to irrigate and use heat return output from HVAC to heat it/ provide energy.
Rooftop greenhouses, “farm in a box”
Friend owns DeLessio, knows farmers, orders directly from them, but in a pinch uses this system.
Well, at least it’s not sprayed with pesticides – organic or otherwise…
Small Plot Intensive (subacre); financials, planting cycle and what to plant when for what acreage and at what cost, how to market, etc; community through list serv - story of lost hoophouse & community
“ NSA” neighborhood supported agriculture
Seattle urban farm/csa – borrows yards.
Resource for finding yards
Resource for gardeners/farmers, etc. Can find/lend yard, tools, etc.
