Fresh Farm Food
On Saturday we made something remotely resembling a round trip through the villages around our town.
A co-worker had told me where to find farms selling their products in little shops, so we tried to find the ones she told me about and were more than successful. We stopped at three farms, offering meat, vegetables, fruit, milk and dairy products, pasta and more. There were always those products that the farmers had produced on their own farm plus lots of other things.
It was lots of fun, plus I saw several cats, a really big dog, lots of cows and some goats. It’s amazing, since it’s really close to where we live, but it’s so country. Now I did some research and there are lots of other shops close to where we live, selling fresh fruit and vegetables in season and whatnot. How could we have missed that for so long?
The absurd thing though is that you basically need a car to be able to buy your food fresh from the farm and similar shops. It’s too far to walk (unless you’re on hiking trip or something) and I wouldn’t want to rely on the busses there. Maybe that’s the reason why I never actually thought about where we could get farmer’s products, since for a very long time, everything that wasn’t easily reachable via foot or public transportation didn’t seem like a real alternative to me. I mean, after all, I still gotta get those bags home somehow.