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Beyond Money: A Contribution Economy for GrowGood

Part 3: Tokens, Mutual Credit, and the Art of Building Something Together In Part 2, we laid out how GrowGood plans to stay financially viable without selling out to venture capital: direct community support, professional services, a non-profit foundation, and cooperative feature development. It’s a solid, well-tested model—slow finance for a project that is deliberately refusing to chase explosive growth. But money is not the only way to build something worth building.

Funding Freedom: An Operating System for the People Growing

Part 2: Building a Regenerative Economic Model for Open Source AgTech In Part 1, we painted a picture of a different kind of Agricultural Operating System—one built on trust, transparency, and technological sovereignty. A system where growers own their data, connect their own hardware, and use “glass-box” AI to gain insights, not receive orders. It’s a compelling vision. But it prompts the elephant in the paddock: if we reject the growth-at-all-costs venture capital model, how do we keep the lights on?

Breaking the Digital Fenceline: A Smarter Foundation for Farm Operations

Part 1 - How Open Standards and Trust are Reshaping AgTech There’s a buzz in the air, a hum of servers mingling with the smell of rain on dry earth. The conversation, happening everywhere from investment boardrooms to the local pub, is about the “Agricultural Operating System”—the Ag OS. It’s a slick vision, often painted by venture capital, of an AI-driven, seamlessly integrated technological revolution that will finally “solve” the farm.

A New Future for Farming: How GrowGood Measures What Matters

The sun is rising over Barb’s market garden as she plans the day’s work. With a cup of coffee in hand, she knows today’s harvest is more than just fresh produce. It’s about getting good food to local families, improving the soil for next year’s crops, and building a business that will last. This isn’t just a romantic ideal; it’s the future GrowGood is being designed to help build, one where every action on the farm contributes to a verifiable, transparent, and fair economic and ecological story.