Fruit & vegetables rhyme with season, so be careful!

Fruit & vegetables rhyme with season, so be careful!

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Strawberries in winter and grape in spring… The offer of fruit and vegetables on the stalls of markets or in the shelves of department stores does not care about the seasons.

The development of greenhouse farming is largely responsible for this trend of consumption. This artificial production necessitates until nine times more energy than an open air production. Indeed, this technique of production requires a permanent heating allowing a stable ambient temperature, rather high compared to the outside temperature, which would be too low for the development of the plants. Artificial lights, which consume energy too, are even sometimes used to maximise the production.

Filling your basket with seasonal vegetables and fruit is considering the importance natural cycle and making an eco-responsible choice. This sustainable consumption is unfortunately often very far from the preoccupations of our current society, in which any desire has to be fulfilled at once.

You will find, in each vegetable portrait, its season of consumption.