Natural Disaster and Eating Locally

On our San Francisco Tours, we talk about the effects of eating locally and seasonally. When we watch world affairs, we see how natural disasters affect communities around the world. On our San Francisco Food Tours, we see how local artisans balance a neighborhood. That is having local bakers, coffee shops, butchers, and so on. As we see on our San Francisco Tours, these local artisans help a community come together we things go wrong. When a community is out of balance, whether it be a lack of local artisans, or a lack of local food producers, communities are not able participate in their own recovery. On our San Francisco Food Tours, we focus on these artisans, Every community has similar artisans. As we see on our San Francisco tours, it is the support of people in the area that allows them to survive, As we see on our San Francisco Food Tours, on of the fun things to do in San Francisco is to shop in one's neighborhood. As we see on our San Francisco tours, while local San Franciscans enjoy shopping that way, that very act allows them to be there for us when we need. them. When an economy is out of balance, local artisans have been replaced by interests only concerned about maximizing income. The essential food producers have been replaced by whatever best serves those corporate interests. And we end up with a continual race to the bottom. For the sake of saving a few minutes, communities end up without local hardware stores. For the sake of "saving" a few dollars, we lose local food producers. As we see when we visit local artisans on our San Francisco Food Tours, the cost of saving a few dollars means that when communities lose artisans, shops, and food producers, they lose local vibrancy and the ability to support themselves. While one of the fun things to do in San Francisco is to support the kind of local artisans and food artisans that we see on our San Francisco Tours. That same point of view allows us to be a community and support ourselves in times of distress.