Our impact is partly measured in increased social participation, because we have to reshape the way our local and regional community approaches both food production and Indigenous relationships in order to drive the wider adoption of regenerative agriculture techniques and distributed local and micro-local food production that will produce measurable results in carbon sequestration and emissions reduction. Additional metrics are funding received, including the $149,000 CAD from the Investment Agriculture Foundation of BC (via the Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust), and the 20,000 ARB grant from ThankARB/Thrive/Charmverse to work towards a food aggregation app with sequestration dMRV functionality. 
This funding has, in turn, allowed the addition of personnel. The Farmland Trust has hired 2 food security coordinators for a year, and the DeFood team now has participation by 2 local farmers, both experts in regenerative agriculture techniques. And we’ll be engaging a dev team to get data on-chain, and design the website beta of our food aggregation app. 
In the next phase, as we work toward the app, we’ll be creating baseline measurements of local food production, and will be able to report real data on how our projects are increasing production, better supporting farmers financially, driving increased adoption of regenerative agriculture, and amount of additional carbon sequestered. 
