Sustainable* Food and Family Garden Day was carried out to promote sustainable food among the Chinese community. We invited Mary from Bwyd Abertawe to talk us through the Sustainable Food Places Framework & Swansea Food Charter which content was useful to allow the participants to know the food they eat and buy has a significant impact on our wonderful planet.

可持续性*食物家庭田园派对为华人提倡持续性食物的概念。我们邀请来自 Bwyd Abertaw 的 Mary介绍持续性食物架构和斯旺西食物宪章，其内容让参与者知道我们每天所吃的食物给我们的地球带来很大的冲击。

从听完演说后的问答游戏中可以知道我们的大人和小孩都学习了不少的知识，其中包括：

The talk was followed by a quiz to enhance what was learnt.We split the Parents and Children into two groups to compete with each other, here are the comments they gave at the end of the quiz:

1. Do not waste food

不浪费食物

2. Buy sustainable food

购买持续性食物

3. Buy from local farmers / help local community grower

支持本地出产的农作物

4. Turn from low cost to true cost

把廉价化为实价

5. Support local businesses

支持本地生意

6. Buy organic

选购有机食品

7. Grow our own food

自己种菜

8. Saving food since there are lots of people who don’t have enough food

很多人仍然在温饱线下生存，所以我们要珍惜食物

9. Look for Fairtrade** sticker on foods products

注意食品上的【公平贸易**】标签

10. Don’t buy more than you need

购物时只买所需的

此问答游戏获胜的队伍是小孩团队！他们获得华协的精美扇子，当下的闷热天气正合适；孩子们看到父母因输了而受罚感到特别兴奋。And the winning team was the CHILDREN! They were presented with CIWA’s own fans; perfectly ready for the upcoming summer heat, and amused to see their parents being punished for losing.

 

为了更认识自己的饮食习惯，我们让参与者做了一项投选活动，而当天32个人投选的结果是：

In order to uderstand our diet habits, we let the participants do a voting activity, and here is the result from our 32 votes that day:

1.Where do you prefer to get food from / 您比较喜欢从哪儿购买食材：

74% prefer to buy from the supermarket / 超市

13% prefer to buy from local farmer / 本地农场

13% prefer self-grown vegetables / 自己种菜

2. What do you prefer / 您倾向于 :

62.5% chose to cook themselves/ 自己煮饭

37.5% chose to eat at restaurants/ 在餐馆吃饭

0% chose to order takeaway / ready meals/ 点外卖或速食

显然我们都需要多支持本地出产的食物，若能收获自己种的菜那肯定能更大化我们的满足和幸福感。

From the above, we obviously need to support the local produce more. If we can harvest our home-grown food, it will certainly bring us more satisfaction and happiness.

大家反馈说当天的活动很有意义，感谢为我们准备美味食物的志愿者；我们讲到做到，所有食物都吃完，一点都不浪费。我们谢谢大家的参与和支持！

Everyone commented that it was a very meaningful event. Thanks to our volunteers who prepared delicious food and we practiced what we preached, i.e. all food was finished!

 

注解：

*1987年，联合国布伦特兰委员会将可持续性定义为“既满足当代人的需求，又不损害后代人满足其需求的能力”。当前，全世界约140个发展中国家正想方设法满足自己的发展需求，但伴随着气候变化的威胁日益增加，我们必须做出切实努力，确保当代的发展不会给后代带来负面影响。

** 公平贸易 – 给工人合理回报，没有剥削工人权益，爱护大自然以及安全的工作环境下所生产的食物。

– 由于场地的更换，我们为无法在田园进行此活动而感到遗憾。但是，如果你有兴趣参观市中心的菜园，我们很开心为你安排。有意者请联系华协的福星。

Remark:

*In 1987, the United Nations Brundtland Commission defined sustainability as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” Today, there are almost 140 developing countries in the world seeking ways of meeting their development needs, but with the increasing threat of climate change, concrete efforts must be made to ensure development today does not negatively affect future generations.

**Fairtade : Fair Pay, No Force Labour, Protect the Environment and Safe Working Condition.

– We regret that we could not carry out this activity in a garden. However, if you would like to pay a visit to the local vegetable garden, we are pleased to arrange for you. Get in touch with FooSeng if you are interested.