It's Saturday and it means it's market day in Germany. There are a lot of farmers' markets everywhere at least once a week even in small cities.
As long as I heard from my German friend, unlike Japanese school, they don't have a food and nutrition class at school. Isn't there any food education for German kids? Maybe less formal ones like classes at at school but a lot nice informal ones. One of them is visiting markets. We can learn what is in season, talk to farmers and merchant and cook at home with the fresh seasonal local produces at home afterwards.
Not only visiting markets but also visiting farms is a good way to get to know food. We see animals and sometimes farmers sometimes talk how do they maintain their animals, process them to meat or other products. Unfortunately it's not always possible to visit a farm and buy their products especially in urban areas. But some of them comes to market.
Same as farm visit, it's not for every region but once we had chance to join wine grape harvesting. It was a nice seasonal experience to pick grapes between lines of grape vines, sometimes eat grapes as snack and have lunch together outside.
So there are a lot nice food education opportunities in Germany, which is not widely available in Japan. Difficult thing is that as they are outside of school so it's quite up to what kind of people are around. While there are a lot of markets and farms, also there are a lot cheap supermarkets called "discounter" and they tempt us to by price and amount ...
Now it's time to visit Saturday market :) Have a nice weekend!
Joining a grape harvesting session is truly a fun experience.
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