The Department of the Environment and the Fight against Climate Change of La Laguna and several Primary Education centers in the municipality have come together in the second edition of the program to support the creation of agroecological consumption groups in educational communities. And this year they want to go one step further and incorporate the associations, groups and residents of the towns and neighborhoods in which it is already established, all with the aim of promoting a diet with fresh, organic products and kilometer zero among families, as well as generating direct contact channels between local producers and consumers, and contributing to promoting a more sustainable form of consumption that takes into account social and environmental criteria.
To promote these values and increase participation, a group of participants in the initiative will explain to interested people how to join these consumer groups at their nearest CEIP, at a stand that will be set up this Saturday, starting at 11:00 a.m., in the Plaza del Adelantado.
After the good reception of the pilot phase in the educational centers, the municipal areas of Environment, Education and Rural Development have come together again for the second consecutive year in this project, already consolidated in the CEIP Camino Largo and Camino de la Villa, in The one in which the Las Mercedes school also participates and with the desire to implement it in two other centers, Aneja and La Verdellada. The project consists in that, every week, groups of volunteers, made up of families, students and teachers, organize and distribute the food in individual batches, purchased in bulk and directly from the producers, according to their seasonal harvest, and subscribers of fully and jointly through the direct contributions of the families.
For the Councilor for the Environment, José Luis Hernández, projects like this “allow us to make visible, from childhood, the positive impact and the work of all the people who are committed to a sustainable production model, the benefits of consuming agroecological and local, and, of course, promote more sustainable consumption models with important social, environmental, economic, nutritional and educational benefits”.
Likewise, the mayor highlighted “the commitment of families, centers and students to the initiative, contributing to a stable output for the sector.”
