Is Denmark Hopeless for Local Eating?
OCTOBER 22, 2007 - This is so amazing to have found this link today on cbc.ca, because I was just talking with my husband about how disgusting it is to me that here in Denmark so much food is imported from the rest of the world. I saw a program showing how the vast greenhouses stuffed with peppers, tomatoes and cucmbers in Spain (where much of our produce comes from in winter) are visible from space! Gaa . . .
When I lived on a southern Ontario acreage back in the 1980s, I canned fruits and vegetables, and froze all kinds of things too, and we rarely, if ever, bought produce, even in the winter. I loved that life, and really miss it. There is no history for that kind of canning and preserving here in Denmark, and they know nothing of preserving kettles and canning jars. I suppose their lives are just so full of everything else, it’s so much easier to pick up tasteless produce at the supermarket. Sad!
I brought back a canner last time I was in Canada, and have made some salsas and things, and really want to do more, but illness has prevented me from that. I tell you, if I was well, I would start up the self-sufficiency bandwagon here in this little country, and they wouldn’t know what hit them! Thank you for your ideas and energy.
-Janet in Aarhus, Denmark
