European Citizens' Initiative Aims to Save Christmas and New Year's Dinner Crisis

I am also a member of a Belgian "food team." Food Team (Voedselteam), a local agricultural organization in Flanders and the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium, currently has 175 food teams in total, and in 2016 it will enter its 20th year. New food teams have been established one after another; for example, the food team I joined was founded in mid-2015.

Through the food team's online shop, I regularly order fresh produce, fruits and vegetables, and dried goods from nearby farms, as well as products from fair trade shops. Carefully selected and limited local products are more precious in flavor than the premium foods packaged and marketed by supermarkets, and their prices are more honest. The shortened logistics also show greater care for the climate warming crisis facing all of humanity and future generations.

As a working mother, one must always plan ahead and make a weekly household food consumption plan. I have already bought some holiday ingredients through the "food team." Fortunately, with the large freezer that every Belgian household must have, the Christmas and New Year food plans have long been quietly stored at minus 18 degrees Celsius. Thanks to the farmers near my home and the food team's logistics distribution, our family of four, old and young, can use our appetites and modest efforts to fight climate warming and reverently protect the Earth.

The first photo shows the green cauliflower/broccoli? Christmas tree and the tomato mashed potato Santa Claus that my child and I made.