Chicken straight from the yard and bread that is really still warm from the oven? Or the marmalade that was actually held in front of you by the person who made it? It works! “Whoever wants it can find it. It’s much easier than, say, five years ago,” says Libuše Pažoutová Sittová, the owner of the farm shop and local bistro, in the podcast.
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It’s kind of convenient. You can easily enter a supermarket on the other side of the country, perhaps in a completely different state, and buy almost the same things there as around the corner. But it’s not very good for the planet. And after all, why eat vegetables that have traveled hundreds of kilometers when the same ones grow at a local farmer.
It doesn’t have to be expensive
Someone considers it an argument. But even that doesn’t really apply anymore. “Local or organic food shouldn’t be super expensive. For me, it’s more expensive when I go to the supermarket,” explains Libuše Pažoutová Sittová, owner of the Pod Ořešákem bistro and also a farmer who travels to farmers’ markets in Pilsen with her mobile shop.
Search nearby
So how to really save? The owner of the bistro sees it clearly. Save purchases in organic stores and those that belong to chains for special occasions, and try to find common ingredients as close as possible. Bread, often also flour, milk and milk products, meat, vegetables, fruit, honey or teas and spices. Growers and breeders sell all this where it grows.
And if social networks are good for anything, it’s precisely because they can support local sellers. This is because they help to offer sales from the so-called yard, i.e. directly from the farmer. Therefore, try to ask your neighbors, but also search Facebook and other places. You might be surprised at the variety that your surroundings actually offer.
Plan
Walk, buy everything in ten minutes and come home again. Of course, this is convenient, and if you decide to shop local, you will have to compromise a little on convenience. Someone sells only in the morning and the second evening. For example, before he goes to the fields or after he feeds the calves. You may also have to drive a little further than you are used to. And you won’t always have everything.
What about that? All you have to do is plan. Combine the purchase with another errand, write the menu according to what was in season, and use the fridge and freezer – that’s what they are after all. But in a few months you will probably see that the hardest part was starting.
