Fair Trade and Local Neighboorhoods

On our San Francisco Tours, we emphasize the importance of fair trade products, Fair Trade products are grown in environmentally sensitive methods and the people who grow them make enough to actually feed themselves and their families.  On our San Francisco Food Tours, many guests comment how wonderful the neighborhoods are in San Francisco, How people look out for each other, they care about other. On our San Francisco tours, our guests enjoy meeting local artisans. Neighborhoods like these do not happen, unless one starts from the assumption that it does matter what happens to some else. On our San Francisco Food tours, many of our guests comment how that this no longer exists back home. The more one insists on fair trade products, the more neighborhoods get created, as many people in a community take responsibility for each other. On our San Francisco tours, we can see the result, people shop locally, so we have local butchers and bakers. On our San Francisco Food tours,  the local food artisans may not be "cheaper" than a major grocery chain. However, the result of cheap food is that you lose local artisans. And eventually, the good income that you get from your job is less, because some else is cheaper than you are.  Maybe not down the street, or across town, but maybe in a different state or country.

On our San Francisco tours, everyone we deal with benefits from what we do. On our San Francisco Food tours, that philosophy helps to build local neighborhoods.  The neighbors we visit on our San Francisco tours do not have to be some thing you only visit on our San Francisco tours. By buying trade foods, shopping local artisans, you can start to create the same kinds of neighborhoods we visit on our San Francisco Food tours.