Canada: ‘Seed Voyage’ App Connects The Home Grower With The Urban Consumer
Canada: ‘Seed Voyage’ App Connects The Home Grower With The Urban Consumer
Linked by Michael Levenston
Seed Voyage Featured on CTV Toronto. Feb 2018
A grower could make about $500 on 100 square feet per summer
By Dushan Batrovic, Shawn Sowten
Seed Voyage Website
(Must see. Mike)
From their site:
Our platform is designed with one thing in mind – to connect growers and eaters so that they can buy and sell their locally grown produce. The home gardener signs up on seedvoyage.com and inputs two key things – their address and the foods they are growing. The local eater signs up and inputs their region of interest (for example, within 5 km of their house) and the foods they are interested in buying. When the produce is ripe and ready for harvest, the grower will send notification and any eaters with matching preferences will be alerted.
They will confirm purchase and pick up the goods at the growers house. All transactions are electronic so need to make change at the door. There are no fees for signing up, only a small transaction fee when goods are sold. Simple as that.
It’s a no-brainer; amazing quality and flavour. Homegrown foods picked at exactly the right time with no ripening on trucks. Even a generic veggie that is picked a few hours before eating tastes great. But specialized varietals like my Cherokee Purple tomatoes, which I grew last summer…amazing! You’ll start to wonder how those red spheres in the grocery store are even allowed to be called tomatoes. In the end, these are foods that are ultra-local and grown by passionate gardeners feeding their families. The difference in flavour and quality will blow you away.