John Marshall

April 6, 2019

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Uncle Reko

But first…. what if we received money for growing healthy soil? I would be tempted to quit my job and rent some land and grow food without chemicals in soil filled with living biology, so I could earn 200SEK per acre per year.

Uncle Rico from the movie Napoleon Dynamite is one of the strangest characters in the movie. New topic. Reko I think stands for Regenerative Ecosystem but actually is Products should be OK and ecologically regenerative. Pretty cool huh? If we could take the idea of Uncle Rico, a man who is living in the past, reminiscing about how great everything was, to Uncle Reko who is living for the future and planning for how great everything could be, wouldn't that be great? “Reko is a concept of a tool for rural development that originally started in Finland and which is now spreading across Sweden. Reko stands for solid consumption and the idea is that it should be both OK and eco. This is a new way of buying and selling locally produced products directly from the producer via Facebook.  Relationship food is the future!”

This idea I stole from the pages of https://www.ridgedalebutik.se/what-is-reko . https://www.ridgedalebutik.se/ is selling locally produced products near my house! a 2.2 hour train trip will get me all the fresh, local(ish), hopefully regenerative agriculture food, I can use. super exciting!

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