"environmental sustainability", "power ethically correct", "km 0": I often inform you about these topics, I'm interested for some time, I admire those who work in groups, conferences, and proposals to raise the rest. I have always lived in a household that spoke little of this, only to realize now, as great, that was out because it was and it is natural to behave in certain ways. There is no mention of GAS, Km 0, etc. .. to my house, but my mom always agree with aunts and friends to buy "an animal" by a farmer in the country and split the quarters.
Eating fresh fruit has always been natural if this year's cherry grandmother got sick and did a few cherries, if you eat less. If the fish has fruit in abundance, you put in vases of fruit syrup to eat them when there is less.
Ditto for jams and preserves: tt always homemade. I can not do a pasta with the tomatoes in a box because I have always used the preservation of the mother, who now prepares sauces sbizzarisce and varied (with a simple basil, red pepper, with vegetables, especially for the pizza).
Ditto for the vegetables: only the garden. And if the summer of croissants and zucchini there are plenty, and enough to freeze even in winter you can enjoy. Communal gardens, shared. Although we only had space for my grandmother garden and orchard and gave a piece of the field to every child so that each had its own backyard. In the summer, finished school, got on the bike to go to the bakery to get bread and cheese for the dairy in the country. The lady next to us was always plenty of eggs that took us and her grandmother still goes to take the country farmer. Ditto for honey and chickens and rabbits: max 1 km! Friends of Lomellina, which have a rice field, bring us rice, while a friend from Puglia, each summer brings us the oil (in tanks so that it can last for several months) and everything is much more good and tasty .
GAS? My grandmother still goes to Caorle to catch the fish directly from fishermen, now knows that, for all his uncles: fresh fish, which then can freeze, but at least you know where it comes from, and transport costs are cut to the bone. My grandmother goes to the mill to make flour for polenta, and I were around to take loertis / bruscandoli / hop shoots (4giga!). They were and still are the grandmothers of the first modern proponent of this barter. But the mother Trade Time courgette with tomatoes near the zucchini in my garden if for some reason are not many fruits and yes to my neighbor and he needed something else, so much the exchange: both parties to!
It 's always been all so natural and obvious (the apricots in November I have never come to mind) now, when I return from a conference, and the story my mom no longer seems a revolution, in fact, I think, we have always done so.
