According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, “getting food from the farm to our fork eats up 10 percent of the total U.S. energy budget, uses 50 percent of U.S. land, and swallows 80 percent of all freshwater consumed in the United States.” Yet, 40 percent of food in the United States today goes uneaten. Farms, restaurants, and grocery stories throw away otherwise edible food because it is close to expiry, not aesthetically acceptable to consumers, and a host of other reasons. This is all while more than 14 percent of US households will lack sufficient food in a given year. In California alone, nearly 6.2 million people were considered food insecure in 2012. “Life creates conditions conducive to life” Life’s Principles, Biomimicry 3.8 Biorhythmics’ concept will connect and transport excess fresh foods (from senders) to excess demand through access points to food insecure populations (receivers). Considering this issue through the design lens of Biomimicry 3.8’s Life Principles, we know that our problem requires a solution that is adaptive to change and that is responsive to its’ environment. Our initial geographic focus will be on urban food sheds – those socio-geographic regions that produce food for a given population. The technology will consist of smart sensors, signaling, and transport from senders to receivers via a network that uses the stigmergic optimization exhibited by certain social insects. The first concept will utilize existing transport infrastructure (e.g., Uber) and a subsequent concept may utilize more direct methods like unmanned aerial systems. The project will focus on identifying and solving both systemic and implementation level barriers that are encountered in current inequitable food systems across the US, thereby enabling scaling of both implementation and impact beyond the initial target foodshed.