There are 3 busy cafes in Cygnet. All have lots of beautiful cakes which are hungrily eaten every day, sometimes by me. One piece of cake is around $5. No-one bats an eye lid at the price.
There is 1 organic fruit and veg shop, Cygnet Garden Larder, which is equally busy. I bought 5 organic bananas for $5. The lovely girl serving looked shocked when she told me the price.
The people eating cakes in the cafes are the same people who tell me they cannot afford organic fruit and vegetables.
These people drive 20kms to a supermarket which has chemically grown fruit and veg.
What has happened to the world?
On Cygnet Market days I like to buy organic fruit and veg from the local market gardeners who have stalls outside on the street. One of them is Alex from Golden Valley Farm. The queue for his vegetables, picked that morning at dawn, stretches down the street if I don’t get out there early enough. His produce is priced to make a living for him and his family and so it should be.
I don’t have much money but I don’t even look at his prices. I grow what I can in my garden and the community garden and buy what I need from Alex. I would much rather have the best, organic vegetables I have ever seen, from a man I know, than drive to a big supermarket and stand in a check-out queue with stuff my mother would not even call food.
It used to bother me that I was preaching to the converted when I talked about such things with my friends and could not seem to reach those that would benefit most from conversion. Now I have stopped beating my head against the wall…. or at least maybe I will soon!
Life is good. Join Alex’s queue.
1 comment:
It's a very good point you make! So many claim they can't avoid organic but happily waste money. It can be a different story though, if a family has little money and are feeding a large family. Those families probably don't waste money on a piece of cake and couldn't feed their children enough organic fruit and veg. I suppose the answer is to encourage more gardening and bartering.
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