Community supported agriculture (CSA), where you can buy directly from farms near where you live, is a natural remedy to food waste – but are we ready to embrace it?
As a mozzarella-shaped adolescent, I was sent off to university with a bag of muesli so enormous that, for at least the first term and a half, my flatmates used it as a chair. There was also a 10kg bag of rice, so many tinned tomatoes that I had to start stacking them under my bed (where, incidentally, I found the previous tenant’s Ann Summers receipt) and enough flapjacks to build a fairly sturdy masonry wall.
The food was all organic, low packaging and bought in bulk – my father is a member of one of those neighbourhood food co-operatives where 15 parents in bicycle clips and corduroy slacks get together in someone’s front room every couple of months to draw up a shopping list of things like wholewheat pasta, bouillon powder and kidney beans.
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Source: Guardian Climate Change