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RE: What one thing do you think individual people can do to make a positive impact on humanity? ecoTrain Question of The Week
In Germany the new trend is called Solawi (Short for Solidarische Landwirtschaft, solidary agriculture). A group of a people finds a farmer, or vice versa, they give him money, so he can produce food (usually organic) and after the harvests people get their share of the food. So the farmer has some financial stability and is freed from his depency on the big discounters and their cut-throat pricing power and the people get better, fresher, healthier food, maybe even cheaper than in the local organic shop because there is no more middleman.
very nice! yep thats the way to do it!
I love this idea... I struggle with health food store prices. I live where I can go buy from the farm and often cheaper. However everything I need isn't grown here. But I bet if more people did this in groups the area would have a more diverse farming. I need to look into this.