Organic Jams and Fruits from Patagonia, Argentina
by Paula Alvarado, Buenos Aires on 09.12.05
This one came straight from a friend who just came back from Bariloche.
The company Cuyen (which means ‘moon’ in mapuche, a local dialect) makes 100% delicious organic natural fruits, jams and chutneys. Established in 1993, they grow Strawberries, Raspberries, Blackberries, Elderberries and Blackurrants in the Patagonian lands without fertilisers, herbicides or chemical soil improvers; and process them in its own plant without artificial additives.
“Patagonia's well-earned international reputation as an almost virgin area is the real secret of our range of highly differentiated and hard-to-match products”, they assure in their website.
Cuyen products can be found in several supermarkets in Argentina, and also in the United Kingdom and Brazil, through Extreme South and Tradeland Comercio Exterior, respectively. All addresses are on their website, under Where to find us. ::Cuyen
buy local! there is nothing green about shipping jam from south america to uk.
The Organis Jams and Fruits from Patagonia are absolutely delicious. They all have a very fine taste. Buying organic and/or Fair Trade products, no matter where they come from, it encourages the countries from where they are originated to establish sustanaible agriculture, rather than allow GM crops to take over the world. No country is self sufficient. By the way, I hope that Hijiki does not drink tea or coffee at all, if he/she is serious about buying local. Tea is not produced in UK. It is air freightened all the way from India and some places in Africa.
True local is the best option IF it is made by a local company out of local ingridients , if the ingridients come from say Kenya and are air frighted , then all that happens is that profit stays in the developed world rather than where the food is grown. See tea, coffie, chocolate , at least with organic food the workers are not being spayed with chemicals .