Frequently Asked Questions
Do people want to use Verdance?
Yes, this is something that people are actively wanting to use and looking for already. Local gardeners are constantly wanting (not only to garden better, which the app helps with) but also to supplement their harvest with additional produce and to sell/trade/give their excess produce.
Is it safe to eat food grown in my neighbor's garden?
It’s not actually a matter of “I don’t know if my locally homegrown neighborhood food is as good or safe as the store bought option” – it’s a matter of “I know that my locally homegrown neighborhood food is better and safer than the store-bought option.”
We know for a fact that the store bought option is very often less safe and lower quality. At this point, it is widely acknowledged that local homegrown food from one’s own yard or neighborhood is better and safer than industry standard food — which is often old, shipped long-distance in packaging and (to compensate for that fact) also sprayed with an array of unhealthy chemicals when grown in the degraded soil of monocrop megafarms, damaging the body and the planet… and ever-increasingly overpriced.
We don’t mean to sound dogmatic about this issue — but from a business perspective: our entire, large target audience (gardeners and people interested in healthy food and permaculture) would already know and agree with all of this information passionately.
Is Verdance similar to Josephine, the home-cooked meals startup?
Josephine, the home-cooked meals startup, may have been dealing with Health Department Regulations. We’ve done our research, and those regulations do not apply to homegrown produce.
Also, unlike home-cooked meal exchange, the Verdance app actually addresses the issue of food shortages and the current impending change of the food industry. It moves us from “food insecurity” to “food sovereignty” by generating new food sources – not meals. The uncomfortable “paradigm shift” here (unlike the meal exchange) addresses an inevitability – an unavoidable paradigm shift. World governments are now seeking to prevent food system collapse by increasing sustainable local food production via the interdependent food networks of the future, in place of the collapsing centralized industry. In other words, “Verdance”.