Eating in Season

You can depend on the natural cycles to enjoy fruits and vegetables that are picked at the peak of maturity!

• Respecting seasons means having fresh produce that is full of vitamins and having authentic, exceptional flavor all year long.
• Keeping track, respecting & following the natural sesonal variations in fruits and vegetables is a great way of ensuring variability in your diet -- of great importance to overall health.
• You would be buying the fruits and vegetables at their cheapest prices.
• You can then count on the seasonal fruit baskets that are delivered to your door with whatever is in season.
• To eat less pesticides: maintaining fruits and veggies under conditions that are NOT their natural seasonal development... makes them more fragile. To protect them, they must be sprayed with lots of pesticides and fertilizers!
• Seasons exist for fish and meat too, though to a lesser extent; for fish there are specific places and times of fishing that return every season. For example, the Salmon in Alaska is available from June-July to September. These cycles often correspond to traditional or religious periods of enjoying such foods.

Article by Roz Baladi from the book: Le guide de L'ECOfood by Alexis Botaya, Editions Minerva