At the Green Market on Saturday the 19th, SFS and the Alternative Agriculture Network (AAN) hosted their own Slow Food seminar about local plant varieties. The event offered a free sampling of over 30 different varieties of pak puan baan or "household vegetables" that you can find growing naturally around the home or in the forest.
Green Market consumers had the chance to learn more about the plants that they often see at the market, but aren't yet familiar with or know of their health benefits. Local herbalist, P' Than, led an engaging discussion and introduction to a number of the varieties:
Reconnecting urban consumers with local foods is an important goal for SFS and the seminar helped the health- and environmentally-conscious in Surin to do just that. Over the following weeks, SFS hopes that consumers will be more aware of the uses and varieties of local plants, and plant them at their homes as well as purchase them at the Green Market. Check out our gallery to see the rest of Surin's local plants.
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