Ko te kanorau o ngā mahi ahuwhenua o Michigan tētahi o ōna merekara, inā koa i ngā wā hauhake o te raumati me te ngahuru.
Heoi, mō te iwi o Michigan, he mahi uaua tonu te whakaaro ki ngā whakaritenga o te tuku kai mai i te rohe, ā, e hiahia ana rātou kia māmā ake te tiki kai hou mai i ngā pāmu o te rohe.
Nā te mōhio ki te pūtake mai o āna kai i kukume a Ami Freudigman. I kī ia e pai ana ia ki te ariā o te hoko hua ahuwhenua me te mīti mai i ngā pāmu o te rohe, he iti noa te tukatuka i mua i te taenga atu ki ngā kaihoko.
Ko ngā pūriri i roto i te ota hoko kai tuihono a Freudigman ngā tino tangata o tēnei pūrākau.
Ka āwhina rātou ki te whakamārama me pēhea te whakatutuki i te kaupapa mai i te pāmu ki te tēpu, arā, ko te ratonga tuku kai mai i te pāmu ki te whānau i te tāone o Genoa, mai i te pāmu ki te whānau o Michigan.
I kī te kaiwhakahaere peka a Tim Schroeder, ko te arotahi a Michigan Farm-to-Family ko ngā hua taiao e whakatipuria ana i ngā pāmu o Michigan.
"Ko ngā hua kounga teitei te arotahi matua, ā, he nui ake ngā mea hanga-ā-ringa, he mea motuhake hoki, he mea e kore e kitea," te kī a Schroeder.
I kī a Tony Gelardi, te rangatira o Simply Fresh Market, nā te tere o te oranga o te tangata ka uaua ki a rātou te whakahaere kai, inā koa ka hiahia rātou ki ngā hua hauora taiao mai i ngā kaiahuwhenua o te rohe.
"E hiahia ana mātou kia mōhio te tini me te mano ko wai kāore e taea te haere ki te mākete a ngā kaimahi pāmu. Ka taea e rātou te tuku taonga," te kī a Gelardi.
I whakatipuria te putea pūriri i tukuna ki te tatau o Freudigman ki Better Way Farms i Grand Junction. Ka whakamahia e ngā pāmu whānau ngā tikanga ahuwhenua whakaora, ā, ko ā rātou pāmu matua he pāmu waro kua whakamanahia e te Tari Ahuwhenua o te Hononga o Amerika.
Kei ngā pāmu o Livingston County te mīti kau, te kāriki, te riki me ētahi atu huawhenua. Kei te mahi tahi a Michigan Farm to Family me ngā pāmu 20 ki te 30 i Michigan me tētahi pāmu i te rohe o Indiana. Kei a rātou he heihei, he koati, he reme, he hua me he huawhenua. Kei a rātou anō hoki ngā kai kua oti te tunu mai i ngā hua o Simply Fresh Market me Zingerman, me ētahi atu.
Ka taea hoki e te tangata te tono kai mai i waho o te kawanatanga, pērā i ngā panana kāore i te whakatipuria ki konei. I kī a Schroeder mā te tuku hua pēnei i ngā panana ka taea te whakanui ake i te uara o ngā ratonga tuku, ā, ka nui ake te tūponotanga ka oti i te tangata ngā ota.
Hoki atu ki aua pūriri: I tētahi Wenerei i te tīmatanga o tēnei marama, i whakarite te kaikohi a Heather Clifton i tētahi ota kai mō te rā e whai ake nei i muri i a Simple Fresh Market.
Nā Clifton i whakarite te ota a Floygman, ā, i whakatakoto rautaki i ngā hua ki runga i ngā kai kē atu i roto i te pouaka kātene kia kore ai e kōpeke. I mea ia ka ata tākaihia e ia ngā kai ki roto i ngā pouaka, kia tae mai ai i roto i te āhua pai, kia ātaahua hoki ki ngā kaihoko.
I muri i te whakaūnga o te ota, ka rongoatia e Clifton ngā pūriri me ngā kai kē atu a Freudigman i roto i te pouaka whakamātao i Simply Fresh Market mō te pō kia noho hou tonu ai i mua i te tukunga atu.
Ka huri te haerenga mai i te pāmu ki te whānau o Michigan mā te waehere poutapeta i ngā Wenerei ki te Rāhoroi. E toru ngā rā o te wiki ka tukuna e rātou ngā taonga ki Livingston County me ngā rohe huri noa. E maha ngā wā o te wiki ka haria e rātou te tereina raro whenua o Detroit. Ko Grand Rapids te mea tawhiti rawa atu i haerea e rātou.
I te wā i tākai ai a Clifton i ngā pūriri, ka tirohia e Schroeder ngā ota hoko kai kua whakaritea mō te tuku i te Taite.
I mea ia e 70-80 ngā ota tuku e tae mai ana i ia wiki. E whakapono ana ia ka taea e ā rāua taraka e rua te kawe i te nui o ngā utanga, ā, e tumanako ana rātou ki te whakawhānui ake i te kaha whakaputa.
I haere mai tētahi taraka tuku taonga kua utaina ki ngā pūriri whetu ki Northville, te wāhi i noho ai a Freudmann me tōna whānau. I tukuna te pouaka ki tōna tatau o mua, ā, i reira ka kitea e ia te hua rongonui e tatari ana ki a ia.
I mea ia i te wā o te mate urutā, ka tīmata ia ki te tono kai mai i tana whānau mai i ngā pāmu o Michigan. Ko ngā hua ahuwhenua e tukuna ana e rātou me ngā hua o Zingerman's te mea tino pai ki a ia. He kamupene tata a Zingerman's kei Ann Arbor, kua rongonuihia ā-motu, ā, kua whānui haere puta noa i te motu i ngā tekau tau kua pahure ake nei.
I mea ia i ngana tōna whānau ki te kai i tētahi kai hauora, me te whakawhāiti i ngā momo matū e uru ana ki te tinana. I mua i te mate urutā, i haere rātou ki Plum Market, Whole Foods, Busch's, Kroger me ētahi atu toa ki te kimi i ngā mea katoa e hiahiatia ana e rātou.
I mea ia, ahakoa te mutunga o te mate urutā, tera pea ka tono kai tonu ia i te Whānau mai i te pāmu o Michigan, inā koa kei te mahi mamao ia ināianei.
I te Rātapu, i hanga tahi a Freudmann rāua ko tana tama e ono tau te pakeke, a Aidan, i ngā panikeke pūriri. I te mōhio kei te hanga pūriri motuhake rāua hei whetu pāpāho ā-rohe, i whakamahia e rāua hei hanga kanohi menemene i te mea kei runga tonu te paraoa panikeke i te oumu.
I whakatūria te kamupene i te tau 2016, he iti noa iho te pakihi i tīmata ai. I whakatuwheratia he toa ki Simply Fresh Market i te marama o Noema.
He tohunga kai a Bill Taylor i Ann Arbor, ā, e kī ana ia ko ia te tumuaki mō te kimi kai. I mua, i whakahaerehia e ia a Eat Local Eat Natural, he kamupene rongonui e whakarato ana i ngā hua rarawe ki ngā wharekai. I pakaru taua kamupene.
"Ko te nuinga o ngā kamupene tuku kai e kitea ana e koe he kamupene nunui nā te mea ka taea e rātou te waihanga i ngā hanganga hei mahi i tēnei. Ki taku whakaaro kei roto tātou i tētahi tūranga ahurei i te wā o te COVID."
He taraka pouaka whakamātao ā rātou, ā, kua whai mana nui rātou i te mākete, kua whakauru atu hoki ki te ao pāmu.
Tena koa whakapā atu ki a Jennifer Timar, he kairīpoata nō Livingston Daily i jtimar@livingstondaily.com. Whāia ia i runga i Twitter @jennifer_timar.
Wā tuku: Oketopa-09-2021