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PERE VIDAL
Organic Farmer & Baker
Organic Farmer & Baker
“Energy generation, economy and other systems of our society are centralized. There’s one place that produces all the energy for the whole country, there’s a nuclear plant, and so on.
The distance between those who produce to the consumer causes a great impact. On one side, production is massive, like intensive farms, and intensive agriculture. This concentration has a greater impact, produces much more pollution, erosion and damage. When each home or community produces its own energy, its own food, it divides the centralization of production. When dividing you remove and reduce the pressure, the extreme consumerism, which is what’s damaging the planet.”
The distance between those who produce to the consumer causes a great impact. On one side, production is massive, like intensive farms, and intensive agriculture. This concentration has a greater impact, produces much more pollution, erosion and damage. When each home or community produces its own energy, its own food, it divides the centralization of production. When dividing you remove and reduce the pressure, the extreme consumerism, which is what’s damaging the planet.”
“The fact of living in a place that is self-sustained, eating your own produce, but isolated, without being in touch with the community around you, makes you just an island that is not changing anything in the world.
With the ecologists in this area, we have gathered into a cooperative to preserve local seeds and this has increased the value of living on a farm.
Baking bread was something no one else was doing, so it was a way to contribute with another small seed, it meant to take responsibility in the community. Like the people nearby who are brewing artisan beer, there are people manufacturing soap, people producing honey.
I had never baked bread before and the process was long because it took three years of learning about seeds, visiting farmers, baking bread by myself by trial and error. It hasn’t been a school learning but by practicing.
Together with other people that are producing other things, you can fulfil most of your needs without consuming articles brought from far away, reducing the impact caused by transportation of non-local goods. It is also about promoting a local economy, more sustainable depending less from afar.”
With the ecologists in this area, we have gathered into a cooperative to preserve local seeds and this has increased the value of living on a farm.
Baking bread was something no one else was doing, so it was a way to contribute with another small seed, it meant to take responsibility in the community. Like the people nearby who are brewing artisan beer, there are people manufacturing soap, people producing honey.
I had never baked bread before and the process was long because it took three years of learning about seeds, visiting farmers, baking bread by myself by trial and error. It hasn’t been a school learning but by practicing.
Together with other people that are producing other things, you can fulfil most of your needs without consuming articles brought from far away, reducing the impact caused by transportation of non-local goods. It is also about promoting a local economy, more sustainable depending less from afar.”
“In the industrial mills, the flour is much more refined, making it more exposed to oxidation, deteriorating its nutrients. When milling white flour the exterior part of the grain is removed, the one that has the most digestible and soluble proteins, as well as the majority of minerals, trace elements and nutrients. What’s left is the gluten, starch and the germ inside, which yes, there are fatty acids and lipids which nurture, but when refined further these are removed so the flour will have a longer shelf life, and very little remains from the original grain.”
Contact: Pere Vidal, Can Pipirimosca. Vals, Catalunya.
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