193: Dan Miller - Crowdfunding Regenerative Agriculture

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Dr. Anthony Gustin

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🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Dan Miller is the founder and CEO of Steward, a crowdfunding platform for investing in regenerative agriculture projects. He discusses how it all works with Dr. Anthony Gustin.

After Dan pioneered crowdfunding for real estate investing with his company Fundrise, he decided to move into something he was more passionate about: fixing the food system.

Steward empowers everyday investors to vote with their dollar and support regenerative farms beyond simply buying their goods.

Since launching in 2020, they’ve crowdsourced and provided over $30 million in short-term loans to fund more than 90 regenerative projects across the US.

Tune into the episode to hear Dan and Dr. Gustin chat about:

How Dan used what he learned scaling Fundrise to launch and grow Steward
Why financing is the biggest challenge for regenerative to become the norm and what’s wrong with the current system
The surprising new generation entering the regenerative agriculture space
How Steward vets and supports borrowers to drive returns for investors
Success stories and community impacts
What happens if there’s a default, the average portfolio yield, the minimum investors need to start, and more!

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Dan Miller’s company, Steward
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture by Wendell Berry

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Natural State Podcast. I am your host
0:08.5	Dr. Anthony Guston. It is my belief that the natural state of
0:11.8	any living organism's health and that our artificial
0:14.4	habitat has forced us into having artificial health problems.
0:17.7	This show is my attempt to dive deep and learn about using nutrition, sleep, movement,
0:22.1	relationships, and more
0:23.6	to help you reclaim your natural state of health
0:25.7	in a modern world and show you how to thrive
0:27.8	in an environment that stacked against you.
0:29.9	If you enjoyed today's show,
0:31.0	you can find out more details and information at
0:33.5	Dr Anthony Guston.com. Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the
0:38.2	Natural State Podcast. This episode I have Dan Miller on the show.
0:42.6	Dan is an amazing entrepreneur who launched a business called Fundrise,
0:46.5	which pioneered crowd funding for real estate investing online.
0:50.5	Scaled a company very large, but went to what he was most passionate about, which was regenerative
0:56.2	agriculture in fixing the food system.
0:58.2	He grew up sort of split between real estate and farming, so this is his way to give back, and
1:01.9	now he's doing the similar thing with crowdsourcing and providing,
1:06.6	he's provided over $30 million in loans, short-term loans to farming projects and the results have been incredible.
1:12.6	So we talked about that, why it's important and why financing
1:15.2	is such a huge issue when it comes to farming and removing the
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