Food security and sovereignty
In La Botiga, purchases work with a free choice and self-service model, like in any store or supermarket, although here you pay with Ricardes, our social currency.
We nourish ourselves in three ways to obtain food:
Donations
We establish donation circuits with small, medium and large donors.
Surpluses
We are part of the local food utilization network.
Suppliers
We buy from suppliers of the social, solidarity and cooperative economy, who provide us with fresh, seasonal and local produce.
Where we purchase La Botiga products
Cadí Cooperative
Alt Urgell / La Cerdanya
Cooperative of 65 farms that make products from milk, we buy soft cheese and fresh cheese.
Llet Nostra
Counties of Lleida and Girona
Cooperative of small and medium farms.
We buy whole, semi-skimmed and skimmed milk.
Prat Agricultural Cooperative
El Prat de Llobregat
The Cooperativa Agrícola del Prat provides us with seasonal and local fruit and vegetables.
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El Prat de Llobregat
Job placement company that makes food re-use products. We buy vegetable creams, jams, stir-fries and potatoes.
The Kloska
Mataró
Small farm and Special Work Center that produces organic eggs.
Ramaders de Muntanya del Berguedà
Berguedà
Cooperative of livestock farmers, who work with a breeding and natural fattening system.
Delícies del Berguedà
Berguedà
Job placement company and special job center that makes yogurts in an artisanal way. We buy natural yogurts.
Association of small producers of the municipality
El Prat de Llobregat
We buy seasonal fruit and vegetables. We plan the sowing together.
#nosaltresespigolem
Together with Espigoladors, we fight against food waste by channeling the fruit and vegetable scraps that have been discarded from commercial circuits for reasons such as not meeting the aesthetic criteria of the market, an excess supply or a reduction in prices, which makes the its harvest is not viable for the producers.
"Minves" network
We are part of the Banc dels Aliments collection network and, every day, we collect food and other products from various supermarkets in the municipality to prevent them from being wasted.
Food and purchase criteria at La Botiga
To establish which foods and products are offered at La Botiga, we follow the Food Policy and the Purchase Policy, which include the criteria for healthy and quality food as well as for a purchase that guarantees economic, social and environmental sustainability.
Pricing policy
To promote a healthy and sustainable diet, we have a pricing policy that is often inverse to that of the conventional market: those products that are more nutritious and healthy have a lower price, while those recommended for occasional consumption have a higher price.
No bumps
To guarantee the free choice of purchase, we have a food offer without barriers or restrictions on the quantity of products, except for those foods that for budgetary reasons or for nutritional recommendations we cannot release, for example, animal protein, fats or products of which occasional consumption is recommended.
Freedom of informed choice
We work from the freedom of informed choice : we develop actions and strategies to raise awareness, spread and promote a healthy and sustainable diet that guarantee quality nutritional information but that preserves the possibility of each person and family to choose food who wants to follow