DeFood's first grant round was the April 2023 Beta round, but it's an outgrowth of an earlier Community Park project that was first on Gitcoin in June 2022. The earlier project secured 75 acres of third growth forest for carbon sequestration in perpetuity as publicly-owned land. Current progress includes building a an economic partnership to preserve one of the largest forest-farms on Salt Spring Island (North End Farm) and the formation of a committee under the Agricultural Alliance to hold a food summit in late 2023, which will cover the urgency of the climate emergency and how local farmers can better sequester carbon through regenerative agriculture techniques, including preservation and restoration of forest and wetlands.