Most supply systems describe products after they leave the field. But what if the field remained part of the product’s computational identity?
A product could carry a verifiable relationship to a landscape, production events, ecological observations, and the humans who stewarded it. That link turns traceability from a logistics feature into a foundation for regenerative economics.
The design challenge is preserving the meaning of living places while connecting heterogeneous data, organizations, and market transactions. A field is not merely a coordinate; it is a history of relationships.
A working proposition, open to evidence, challenge, and refinement.
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