In light of the financial mess that the world is in right now, and reflecting on what Willie Nelson said on Saturday at the Farm Aid 2008 launch, we are looking to solutions:

“agriculture is the backbone of our economy…if the bottom rung of the economic ladder is agriculture, and it falls in, everything else falls down”

Some folks in Tennessee are holding a Financial Permaculture conference using the small rural town of Hohenwald, TN as a prototype.

Join community investment experts, permaculture designers and sustainability entrepreneurs for this dynamic gathering and integrative educational experience of Greening an American Community. Learn valuable tools and skills in real life scenarios to address the economic and environmental challenges of 21st century America. In this real-time Green Business Development Summit we will explore creating forward looking sustainable businesses, money cycling, local investments, and optimizing the local natural and human resources to implement models of regenerative business and local sustainability.

Click for more info about financial permaculture and the conference.

Three Day Threshold provided the soundtrack, Gays for Patsy the dancing, and the boogie-ing toddler is just the icing on a fantastic city slicker layer cake of a time!
Thank you to Aliza Shapiro at Truth Serum Productions for throwing this shindig - we were honored to be a part of it. Glad the composter we raffled went to a good home!

Here are a couple of photos from the HOMEGROWN Concessions at Farm Aid 2008 this past weekend. The were tons of good food options at the show - organic burgers and dogs, pizza, beer, and those famous Patchwork Family Farms pork sandwiches. See our Flickr for photos from the HOMEGROWN Village.