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Farmers' markets are great, yes, as entertainment for wealthy consumers with spare time, me being one of those. As a sales channel they are extremely inefficien
by zwieback 4y ago
Farmers' markets are great, yes, as entertainment for wealthy consumers with spare time, me being one of those. As a sales channel they are extremely inefficient and all told probably bad for the environment.
- 8note 4y agoAs a sales mechanism for CSA boxes they aren't too bad The efficiency is dependent on what you're measuring - food per land area? Food per energy input? Energy output per energy input?
- zwieback 4y agoI was thinking of total energy (and maybe something like CO2) per food on the customer's table, including the waste that's produced.
- mariusor 4y agoFor me personally it doesn't tract that reducing the supply chain between producer and consumer to the maximum will result in more energy expenditure: The supplier has one trip to make to sell their current stock. The consumer has one trip to make to buy multiple items that they're interested in (since this is a market).
- framperz 4y agoGreat quote on that from Vaclav Smil's new book: " each greenhouse-grown, supermarket-bought tomato has the equivalent of five tablespoons of diesel embedded in production"