On an island covered with towering forests, bucolic farmland, pastures filled with lambs and chickens, apple orchards, clam beds and farm stands brimming over with produce, eggs and cookies at the end of every driveway, somehow, only 4-6% of the food we eat is locally produced.
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DeFood on Salt Spring Island...an opportunity to create a model of connected food, climate, social, economic and biodiversity solutions for an unpredictable future - solutions that are sustainable, replicable and scalable and most of all delicious and fun.
creating a local food secure system
on chain
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in the face of drought, floods, fires and extreme weather from a changing climate, pandemics, peak oil,
peak water, peak fish, peak soil, biodiversity loss, rising energy costs, supply chain shortages and other systemically-related problems than
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Re-localizing our food supply
DeFood works to decentralize food security both by expanding localized food production, processing and distribution, and by using Blockchain technology to monetize carbon sequestering assets and support localized trade and digital currencies.
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Salt Spring Island is our model for a systemic food solution
that can be applied to small and large communities all over the world.
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