Watershed Fund
Neighborhood Economics has built a fund with Eagle Market Streets CDC to do zero interest small expansion $10,000 philanthropic investment (give to invest) loans from the Impact Assets CataCap platform for local farm to table farmers ad student entrepreneurs from Warren Wilson.
Water and the growing Asheville area
Stephanie Swepson Twitty and Eagle Market Streets CDC, will host the fund and take a fiscal sponsorship fee. Neberecon gets a fee for engagement to do business development.
partners in the existing farm system technical assistance, business advisory, networking and connections, some funding
A significant partner in the Watershed Fund is ReSeed which will sell the carbon from the fund’s BIPOC farm/farmer pipeline and as well as the farms in the portfolio across the state as well as the growers in the Biomedicinal pipeline and portfolio of investees working in Biomedicinal Food Forest in the Asheville economic bioregion
Lalita Booth is working on designing the Watershed Fund and the #WatershedDividend.
A still in process Initial design of the Watershed Fund
Links to this page
- Gratitude on tap (← links)
- Investing in Farmers (← links)
- Neighborhood Economics, AVL (← links)
- Eagle Market Streets (← links)
- Rayburn Farms (← links)
- ReSeed (← links)
- Farmers sell carbon easily (← links)
- North Carolina Native Plant Society (← links)
- Warren Wilson Student Entrepreneur pilot project (← links)