Saturday, June 11, 2011

The British Are Coming... The Welsh, too.

As much as the Bay Area can seem like ground zero for the locavore, the ethical omnivore, and the farm-y gourmand, the United Kingdom is leaps and bounds ahead. The above sign was outside of one of the two butcher shops in Hay-on-Wye, Wales. Hay is a town of some 1500 souls and, while it draws from the surrounding areas, is in a quite rural part of the UK. So to find a small butcher selling locally produced meats organically and humanly raised is a bit of a surprise. In California, I know where and how to get this type of product, but find it difficult when traveling in the US. The reasons are likely varied and not obvious, but the result is an awareness of agriculture as a part of a community's resource and its' landscape.

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