So I was being
complainy about how going to the hip 'farmers' market' is all well and good if you live in
New York or
Matakana. But if you live in a less hoity-toity place where there are no such markets, like Buenos Aires, how can you get you nice, locally grown, organic produce??
But it turns out... well, three things:
Firstly, Buenos Aires actually has
green-grocers everywhere, and they sell good, cheap, fresh produce. It's presumably bathed in pesticides, the bananas are from Ecuador, the kiwifruit from Chile, etc. but much of it is presumably actually grown in Argentine soil (Argentinian? Argent?). And you can Just Say No to the plastic bags, if you think ahead.
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| Ginger root bought 100 metres from my front door - mmm... ginger beer... |
Secondly, we discovered
www.jardinorganico.com.ar, a virtual grocer that delivers organic produce to our very door.
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| Maybe one day, an electric van? |
We've been using them for a while now, and it's generally pretty good - the only complaint so far is their plastic package fetish.
But we're lobbying them annoyingly about this; hopefully we can convince them to switch to cartons at least...
Thirdly, my sharp-eyed wife discovered an actual farmers market! It's organised by
Sabe la Tierra, and it runs weekly in various locations in the city.
None of those locations are particularly close to us, unfortunately, but on Wednesdays, it's in the
city centre (
near Callao and Corrientes), half an hour's subway ride away.
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| Veges with convincingly organic imperfections |
They have local veges and fruit, mushrooms, free-range eggs and chicken, products stolen from bees (including mead!), as well as 'ready made' food for take away or eating in the market's 'picnic zone'.
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| Bananas from Formosa (3200 food-kilometres closer than Ecuador) |
So, as usual, it turns out I'm an ignoramus...
