Our Mission:

1. To promote and fund the sustainable and local manufacture of tools.

2. To promote design engineering education in villages and neighborhoods.

3. To enable sustainable and regenerative practices through design and education.

4. To help achieve environmental and financial sustainability through innovation.

5. To create a global cooperative for the sharing of tool designs.

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Slow Tools missions include the need to provide nutritious food and soil, clean water and energy, environmental and human health, and cultural democracy and security.  We believe these goals are best achieved locally, changing as needed to adapt to people's basic local needs. 

Slow Tools began 10 years ago as a movement among farmers, designers, and engineers to identify, design and make tools for the small farm community. 

We will expand this mission to include the development of onsite prototyping facilities and operational farms for the testing of tools and systems.

Farming and food are the essential source of renewable human energy and health. This mission will remain a fundamental cornerstone of our efforts.

The Slow Tools organization will continue to work with high school and college students, as well as professionals, to develop practical skills through the pedagogy of design and engineering for real world applications.  SlowTools will foster cooperative learning ventures with students, farmers, designers, and engineers to develop prototypes for sustainable regenerative agriculture.

Slow Tools will research, design, and prototype new farming systems and technology, based on maintaining ecosystem health.  Slow Tools will design and test new farming concepts, layouts, and operations. It is paramount that we take on this role to collectively reduce the time, waste and risk farmers face in an industry with tight profit margins. It's up to us to help solve the problems facing small farms and help make them more financially and environmentally sustainable.

Slow Tools will seek to license and produce products that we develop. We will make products accessible to farmers, academic institutions, and industries that share our ethical and philosophical goals. It is through these products, donations and fundraising, that we will become a financially sustainable organization.