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.
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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?
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