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to shop with small, independent vendors. that's austin-based mason arnold. he was born and raised in austin, texas. his 6-year-old company, greenling, regularly buys produce from green gate farms along with most of the other organic farms in the region. greene greenling distributes this locally grown produce to homes in austin. as a disstrib tore of locally grown foods, they offer familiar and exotic new produce to customers like lynette of austin, texas. >> it challenges me to make something i would never buy in the store. >> in this way, they are introducing new customers to new product from local suppliers. robbie larkin is a local austin angel investor. he puts some of his money behind greenling and a few other slow money businesses. >> you put all of these businesses together. it is not just investing in a
shun local small businesses like green gates, greenling and little blue stem. >> if you use financial speak, most of the things we want to preserve in our communities don't make the grade. >> that's why he started an organization called slow money. it makes our communities better places to live through agriculture. >> it's investors and entrepreneurs committed to rebuilding local food systems. >> this is a local angel investor. he puts some of his money behind greenling and a few other slow money businesses. >> investing in a local farm, say that's just struggling to get a few thousand dollars in the door to get another piece of equipment to allow them to feed more people in their community. it's not going to ipo anytime soon. >> he's pulling some of his money out of wall street and on to main street. >> put all the businesses
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venture capitalist. he understands why investors shun local small businesses like green gate, greenling, and little blue stem. >> if you're using financial speak, most of the things that we actually want to preserve in our communities don't make the grade. >> that's why he started an organization called slow money. to encourage investments that pay off by making our communities better places to live through agriculture. >> it's a network of investors and entrepreneurs who are committed to rebuilding local food systems. >> robby larkin is a local austin angel investor. and a member of the slow money chapter in austin. he put some of his money behind greenling and a few other slow money businesses. >> investing in a local farm, say, that's just struggling maybe to get a few thousand dollars in the door so they can get another piece of equipment that can allow them to feed more people in their community, that's not going to ipo any time soon. >> he's part of a movement that's pulling some of its money out of wall street and onto main street. >> you put all of these
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we broke even. we've been farming in the worst drought in history here this past year. >> green gate is a very small, very local business. it provides food for about 100 families a year. and at the same time, provides income to a fair number of other local businesses and suppliers. >> we're growing. they need organic feed that supports the feed mill. we need fencing. that supports the supply stores. then there's a butcher i need to hire who's going to start making sausages who will sell it to a restaurant. >> more and more local business owners are discovering that spending their money within the community brings a boost to the local economy. >> there's a buy local movement is when you buy local the money stays in the community so it's better for the local community to shop with small, independent vendors. >> that's austin-based mason arnold. he was born and raised in austin, texas. and his 6-year-old company, greenling, regularly buys produce from green gate farms,
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