la Ville s’engage à encourager une alimentation locale et gourmande
Pierre Hurmic, mayor of Bordeaux, and Ève Demange, municipal councilor in charge of food resilience, presented the food axis of the municipal program, this Monday, in the gardens of the town hall.
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“We wanted to support households in preparing tasty dishes within a limited budget and time and with more vegetable proteins. The people of Bordeaux eat meat 1.4 times a day, this proportion is too high for their health, the climate and the animal condition”, explains Pierre Hurmic, emphasizing the social purpose of the project. “Our goal is to move towards a diet that is 75% vegetable and 25% animal, fresh and seasonal. »
The City wants to work on it, give impetus, “develop short circuits, create reflexes of requirement”
His presentation was followed by a gourmet illustration concocted by the starred chef Vivien Durand, with, for example as a starter, asparagus on a bed of hummus made from bean pods. Products described within 50 km. “My message is to consume local products, to work all the product, not to waste anything. »
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Is this possible when Bordeaux, with a population of 260,000, only has 61 hectares of useful productive surface, six private urban agriculture sites, whereas 829 hectares would be needed to cover the fruit and vegetable needs of the people of Bordeaux, only 96% raw agricultural products are imported? The City wants to work on it, give impetus, “develop short circuits, create reflexes of requirement”, for example by doubling in 2022 its envelope of calls for projects “Food Resilience”, i.e. 100,000 euros, by providing a garden shared by district by 2026, from taste districts to Benauge, to the Grand-Parc, etc.
Another track created by the delegated councilor Ève Demange: neighborhood food councils, to “work with energies that are already there”, will see the light of day by the summer. A student food council has already been held, ideas for a shared garden and social food security have been adopted. Themes to dig for the town hall.
A “Laboratory of food initiatives” at Benauge
In 2019, the e-Graine citizenship education movement launched its “Food Initiatives Laboratory” at La Benauge. It is one of the 22 projects supported through the City’s “Food Resilience” call for projects in 2021. Its goal is to work with residents on food that does good. “We met a lot of people. Three desires emerged: to have better access to quality food, hence the idea of a local producers’ market; develop a catering offer, a kitchen cargo bike already exists; reclaim space, have your hands in the ground to harvest tomatoes, pick thyme. Gabrielle Rodriguez, coordinator of e-Graine in New Aquitaine, is working to bring everything together by the end of 2024.