In an effort to encourage Jo’burger’s to adopt sustainable, local eating habits, we’ve complied a list of tips for eating local that even the most urban of eaters can put into practice.
Don’t feel pressured to make drastic changes to your lifestyle, or your eating and purchasing habits right away – you risk frustration and may be tempted to give up.
Rather, choose a few activities that suit your lifestyle and are easy to implement. Slow Food isn’t a destination. Take time to enjoy the journey.
Grow vegetables in a window box and keep pots of herbs
on your kitchen window still
Dry your own herbs
Make your own infused oils and vinegars
Squeeze your own fruit and vegetable juice
Can, freeze, preserve, pickle, air- or sun-dry ingredients in
season so you can enjoy them all year round
Bake your own bread
Make your own pasta
Make herb pestos and freeze them
Forage for wild edibles
Buy, or barter for fresh fruit or vegetables, from neighbours with fruit trees or a vegetable patch.
Start a compost pile in your garden, or grow a worm farm.
Make your own beer, wine and spirits (legally!)
Keep chickens
Keep an urban bee hive
If you hunt, eat or preserve what you shoot
Turn seasonal fruit into jams and chutneys
Make your own sausages
Be a seed saver
Share…
Email us at slowfoodjoburg@gmail.com and tell us about
what you do in your home to eat locally and sustainably.
