In Holland, we're winning! Organic and healthy options are now almost the same price as the rest. (Our food is not exactly cheap to begin with anyway, we spend about 19% of our income on food) I see shopping cart content change *dramatically*. The largest, high end grocery store here, now marks all organic food with a green tag. (Slowly, other stores are catching on to the green tag idea too!) It has a basket of free fruit at the door for children and their most popular cash register give-away they do every year is 'moestuintjes' (mini-vegetable gardens). Little paper boxes with a peat pot, soil, vegetable seeds, a manual and a display in the shop with cute pots, kids tools, books and collectors gear. Hordes of kids stand at the exit, begging to be given yours asif they are collectible soccer cards, because they *love it*! Boys, girls, all of them! Every customer gets one with every 10 euros they spend for about 6 weeks. Different vegetables of every kind you can imagine. A *frenzy*, haha! All whining, begging, trading, growing, bragging! Our perception of food versus price is also *very* different. We aim for the best we can afford because our perception of cheap means it's automatically not worth eating. A certain German shop had a very difficult time trying to establish itself in our culture until it started offering more high quality food. Now it is a regular stop for all Dutch people, because they suddenly understood our culture. Now the other ones are here too. Fantastic stuff actually. Adding more organic as well! The progress here just doesn't end. Actually! The big chains are catching on to this faster than small family businesses. What you don't really see here: Organic and local specialty shops. You have to really plow up the internet to even find them. CSA's? Not so much either. Farmers markets? I mean *true* farmers markets? Never seen one. We do have week markets with fresh veg straight from the auction house though.
Its not up to company's and government to fix our problems people with backyards patios small front yards should be growing something getting to know your neighbors to trade back and forth we can start there
In Holland, we're winning! Organic and healthy options are now almost the same price as the rest. (Our food is not exactly cheap to begin with anyway, we spend about 19% of our income on food) I see shopping cart content change *dramatically*. The largest, high end grocery store here, now marks all organic food with a green tag. (Slowly, other stores are catching on to the green tag idea too!) It has a basket of free fruit at the door for children and their most popular cash register give-away they do every year is 'moestuintjes' (mini-vegetable gardens). Little paper boxes with a peat pot, soil, vegetable seeds, a manual and a display in the shop with cute pots, kids tools, books and collectors gear. Hordes of kids stand at the exit, begging to be given yours asif they are collectible soccer cards, because they *love it*! Boys, girls, all of them! Every customer gets one with every 10 euros they spend for about 6 weeks. Different vegetables of every kind you can imagine. A *frenzy*, haha! All whining, begging, trading, growing, bragging!
Our perception of food versus price is also *very* different. We aim for the best we can afford because our perception of cheap means it's automatically not worth eating. A certain German shop had a very difficult time trying to establish itself in our culture until it started offering more high quality food. Now it is a regular stop for all Dutch people, because they suddenly understood our culture. Now the other ones are here too. Fantastic stuff actually. Adding more organic as well! The progress here just doesn't end. Actually! The big chains are catching on to this faster than small family businesses. What you don't really see here: Organic and local specialty shops. You have to really plow up the internet to even find them. CSA's? Not so much either. Farmers markets? I mean *true* farmers markets? Never seen one. We do have week markets with fresh veg straight from the auction house though.
this talk still resonates. thanks josh!
AGREED. Let's do this!
Beautiful idea!
The saddest thing is that we are the super power (USA) and yet our country is the farthest away from the pure food source its pathetic.
Maybe that's because - chemically - {garden life} is incompatible with {super power}.
Its not up to company's and government to fix our problems people with backyards patios small front yards should be growing something getting to know your neighbors to trade back and forth we can start there
He's sooooo cute!! 😍
I don't think it was fall from the president, I'm guessing he forgot that our country is all about capitalism and who can get the consumer's attention