That's the message for most foodstuffs, Iwert: buy locally from the
producer. We get all our vegetables from a trailer in a farmyard not
far down the road. Just as with microgeneration we will have to rely
more and more on our own communities for our lives.
Chris
On 16 Oct 2009, at 11:05, iwert bernakiewicz wrote:
> So we stopped going to the auction houses, searched for direct
> customers and now sell for a standard price of 8 euro a kilo all
> season long. we get 4 times the price and the customers get one third
> the price. You see this happening here locally more and more, and if I
> go shopping @ the farms (which we do a lot) we support the farmers and
> still get our fresh fruit and vegetables for far less than the
> supermarket. Farmers can do this on a small scale for the local market
> and for fruit, vegetables and sometimes meat, but if you are into
> milk, things change: you can only sell to big corporations which
> dictate the price, so no, the farmers don't have to be paid by tax
> money, but they should get a fair price for what they do. If you'ld
> have had a decline in income of 30 - 50% in the last 5 years you
> wouldn't be happy either. Il'd rather have happy farmers than rich
> multinationals :).
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