„I went to the farms in our area and tried to find the ones who were growing organic food,” says Yinghui Zhang-Carraro. Yinghui is a freelance writer and resident of Beijing and organic food has been a longtime staple in her household. During a recent encounter at the BioFach Messe for organic food in Nurmberg, she provided me with a glimpse of the evolution that the organic food market has been undergoing in her neighborhood.

What type of organic food is available in the markets in your neighborhood? What do you miss most?

If you mean supermarkets in my neighborhood, you can find organically labeled veggies and fruits, and most of grains and seeds commonly grown in China. I miss most the great tastes of real food I enjoyed thirty years ago in my home town near the border with Russia as most of food then was grown naturally [mehr...]