what do you produce?
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- lowimpakt
how much of what you consume i.e. food, drink, clothes, products (furniture, electronics), housing do you or you local town/city produce?
- mg330
GAS.
- e-pill0
i work freelance for a few vendors that produce everything locally.
- clearThoughts0
live in LDN - 0% probably
- detritus0
I buy houses abroad and ship them over.
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Everything, bar electronics, I try and source nationally.
I can't think of too much I buy regularly that isn't from Britain - I buy German ham, Spanish Chorizo, lemons and garlic as well as avocados from somewhere far too overseas. Oh, and a bottle of Evian each week, a bad habit I've slipped in to. No need for that at all.
- oh, answer fail - town/city?
Very, very little, sadly.
detritus - Well, I say 'sadly' - but everything I've read hints that living in the city is the most efficient way to be..detritus
- Be worse if I lived in a provincial town, getting nationwide goods via spoke and hub distributiondetritus
- here, all roads lead to London, for better or worse :)detritus
- oh, answer fail - town/city?
- detritus0
I'm hoping to make Elderflower wine this year, using elderflowers from London and sugar beet sugar from Norfolk.
That's as local as I can possibly muster.
- Frosty_spl0
I buy everything from Wal-Mart, down the street. So its local.
ZING!
- hahahahaMiguex
- and affordable!MSTRPLN
- you sir deserves a medal !!georgesIII
- utopian0
I consume strippers at the local joint. I keep it local!
- Juanmonk0
whiskey, drink a lot of local ales / beer. Confectionary, fish, seafood, steak, haggis, veg, fruit, bread, soups, cheese, porridge. No point buying water when the nicest water you can drink comes straight from the tap, but the neighbours buy a shite load of ours. Irn Bru! All this shit is produced, bottled, slaughtered, packaged, caught and picked in and around Glasgow, explains why we are all unhealthy bastards.
- Lol porridge. What did you just step out of a time machine from the 1800's?CygnusZero4
- < Eh? Go eat yer oatmeal!Juanmonk
- OBBTKN0
Aprox. Food: 95%, Drink: 95% (tap water, lots of wine and the rest 5% is the Coke i drink when biking), clothes 30% (except biking clothes, the rest i bought is made in china), furniture 60% local, 40% Swedish, Electronics: 80% made in china the rest 20% in Japan or Korea.
- boobs0
I just buy what's in the store that looks good. I figure whoever made/grew it can use the money, wherever he is. Why should I give preference to the people who live near me? I would really prefer to give my money to people who have my values, but that doesn't seem really closely related to the local geography.
- kona0
we have this thing called "the farmers market" where every saturday a large group of... farmers, bring what they've grown to an outdoor... market, and we purchase most of our produce from there. it's fresh, it's clean and it helps support the local farmers.
- mrghost0
I think a more interesting question would be:
how much of the content you view is created locally?
- stoplying0
I'm growing tomatoes in my backyard, and I plan on consuming them. Also trying for watermelon and lettuce. So I guess you could call me a farmer of sorts.
- bump0
nothing but the crack rock :(
- drgsss0
i fed orangutang babies in Malasia for 2 years
- Wolfboy0
I grow tomatoes, peppers and salad leaves in my one bed London flat. But that's it. I looked into getting an allotment, but they are like hens teeth within a reasonable distance of where I live.
- ernexbcn0
vespene gas
- lowimpakt0
this is where myself and the girlfriend produce some of our food. Since this photo was taken a few months back there were lots of new beds put down at the back and the pea/bean frames were rebuilt.
I was planning to grow hops this year so we could produce our own beer but it was to much hassle/time... next year.