Hatch The Future

Creating Sustainable Economies: Legally Speaking with Christina Oatfield     In this episode, you’ll hear how SELC began as a part-time project, and became a fully-staffed legal center providing legal education, conducting legal research, advocating for new legislation, and providing free legal advice to support thriving communities.   In this episode you’ll learn: That some lawyers are actually community-minded superheroes that work to support social enterprise,cooperatives and nonprofits. How SELC provides a pathway to becoming a lawyer without the crippling debt  - What SELC is doing to empower the next generation of farmers and to keep farmland out of the hands of speculators Why we need more young farmers (Hint: the average age of farmers is sixty years old!) How Community Development Financial Institutions could use community finance to support more entrepreneurs Why it’s important to accommodate both wealthy and non-wealthy investors in community finance How the ‘Friends and Families’ offe