Eating fresh local and seasonal produce may seem like a fashion trend in today’s society. However, it is actually something that is perfectly normal, which can be seen throughout history, for many generations, long before the big grocery stores and farming advances ever existed.
Sadly, in today’s food industry, we commonly see the same products available 365 days of the year. Products that are, and should always be seasonal. For example, strawberries are now available in most supermarkets throughout the entire year, when naturally their seasonal cycle lasts only for a few months during summer.
Products that are available outside of their natural season, needless to say, are mass-produced, often through heated greenhouses, or transported from high climate countries using preservatives, chemicals, and generating huge Co2 emissions.
Often they are picked unripened for long shelf-life, and therefore hold low nutritional value and taste. Seasonal and local produce, on the other hand, offers a quality of food, beneficial to our health and palette, which of course is also much better for the environment too.
Ibiza Local Produce
As foodie experts, we are passionate about high-quality cuisine, and our standard of catering always advocates for fresh local and seasonal produce as much as possible, and here’s why…
Local Seasonal Produce is both Rich in Flavour and Taste
Ibiza is beautiful in wildlife and seasonal produce. Our immensely brick red and rich soil combined with the perfect Mediterranean climate and golden sunshine provides our little island with conditioned agricultural grounds for some wonderful nutritious foods. When our local foods are left to ripen in their own time and natural habitat under the Mediterranean sun, our produce is richer in flavour, full of vitality, and wonderfully colourful too!
Better Nutrition
Local food is always fresher, and therefore higher in nutritional value. Our local suppliers reassure us our farmer’s produce is freshly picked and boxed ready for us within the last 24 hours, ensuring it is ripe and at its peak nutrient-density.
Environmentally Friendly
Purchasing fresh local foods from organic farms is one of the most environmentally friendly and charitable things we can all do for our island and the planet, minimizing Co2 emissions, wastage, and saving economic cost and resources, such as oil and gas used for long-distance and air transportation.
Community Benefits
At ‘The Ibiza Catering’ we desire to make a stand and create a greater demand for fresh, organic, and locally produced foods – directly from Ibiza, and support our local economy and maintain our local cultural and community stimulus.
It is important for us to see local businesses, service providers, farms, and native ecological products nurtured and thriving. We want to see our island supporting small, independent businesses as well as encouraging future generations to value and invest in the welfare and future of the island through eating more seasonal produce and buy locally from our farming communities.
Each and every season Ibiza has the potential for bountiful and various seasonal produce. We love all of our seasonal calendar food groups on offer here, where we can create some wonderful, innovative menus for fantastic al fresco dinner parties, large-scale events, and home-cooked meals. Our fresh fruits and vegetables like kale, chard, artichokes, and asparagus and an array of orange and lemons, peaches, and newly blossomed strawberries are among the very best.
Our local suppliers at The Ibiza Catering
At The Ibiza Catering, we pride ourselves on fresh, local produce and high-quality ingredients. We know we are benefiting our client’s health, providing the very best possible food menu with an explosion of taste, practicing in a sustainable manner, and being socially responsible to our local community.
To demonstrate our commitment to our local community and local seasonal produce, we would like to introduce a few of our local suppliers at The Ibiza Catering who make your event and catering service special through their hard work and delicious products:
Samos Deli – Our Bakery and Cake Suppliers
Samos Deli is part of our family-run business, known as Samos Group, which has been passed down from our previous generation, since 1978, here on the island of Ibiza.
Our bakery was at the start of everything. Here, we proudly create homemade baked bread that signifies care and quality of ingredients. Every handmade loaf is handled with tender loving care and is predominately sourced from the island of Ibiza. We insist on using only the finest natural ingredients on offer and following traditional methods of baking by hand to provide quality local products to our local communities.
At The Ibiza Catering, we naturally use all of our bakery’s freshly made products including a wide range of German and Artisan loaves of bread for all of our events and our very own in-house creative cake designers for weddings and special occasions.
You will find numerous batches of our healthy alternative loaves of bread such as Multi Cereal Bread, Dark German Bread, Rye Bread, Quinoa, Chia, Carrot, Nut or Spelt bread in all Eroski and Aprop supermarkets across Ibiza, Formentera, and Mallorca; all Hiper Centros and Sumas (Ibiza) plus many local stores and restaurants in Ibiza.
C’an Pere Mussona
Ca’n Pere Mussona is our local organic certified farm, here on the island of Ibiza. Their fundamental values of hygiene and animal welfare, raise and nurture outdoors all their animals in a spacious environment without any means of chemicals or pesticides.
We believe Ca’n Pere Mussona is the very best in quality, reliability, and environmentally friendly fruits and vegetables, and are extremely well-known on the island for their core values, status cultivations, and farming standards.
Fish Galicatesen
Our local fish suppliers deliver fresh fish, seafood, and shellfish caught daily from the wonderful crystal-clear waters of our surrounding Mediterranean seas. Our delightful fishmonger understands the very best fish and seafood on offer and is always very happy to help.
Everything is sustainably-sourced meaning their organic farming methods can help maintain biodiversity on an environmentally-friendly planet. Expertly prepared, supplying top quality, fresh fish, seafood, and shellfish, and all delivered within 24 hours of being landed.
Carnicero Ernesto
The very best butchers on the island who specialise in a complete line of premium quality, hand selected, and properly aged beef, pork, veal, cold cuts, cured meats, and anything else you can think of. Sustainably sourced from local, organic farms of Ibiza and mainland Spain, custom cut, prepared and packaged to our exact specifications, Carnicero Ernesto is a meat supplier to remember.
Enotecum Wine
Enotecum Wine is our local wine supplier and island distributor who specializes in the import of premium wines and liquors, offering more than 4.000 references and some of the most recognized wineries both nationally and internationally. Many of their wines are Spanish denominations, in addition to some fantastic varieties from France, Italy, Chile, South Africa, Australia, California.
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