Ep 28. Community Lending - Funding Regenerative Agriculture

01/05/23 • 53 min

In this episode we speak with Ryan Anderson from Steward Lending, and Eric Bowman from both the Kohala Center Business Services Team, and Loan Officer for Feed The Hunger Fund, about financial assistance available to and focused on ag producers.

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Seeds Of Wellbeing - SOW - Ep 28. Community Lending - Funding Regenerative Agriculture

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