Before restaurant chains, fast food franchises, long before home delivery there was a form of family production in the countryside. Farms were those places where food was generated for large families, traditional dishes made with products from the house itself, sustainable cuisine.
Enjoying a plate of food in a restaurant can be routine for many people. A mechanism that we end up getting used to, a simple daily action to which we no longer pay much attention.
15 minutes from the city of Querétaro is a restaurant that forces you to rethink the process to fill a table with good quality dishes. It is the La Familia Tilapia Farm, located in the municipality of El Marqués, a place where diners will live an experience beyond sitting down to wait for dishes.
Going on the road, going to a country stage and arriving at a place far from the busy city is usually therapeutic. The experience is completed with visiting a restaurant with sustainable processes and mechanisms to produce the food that reaches your table, such as visiting the La Familia Tilapia Farm.
It is necessary to make a reservation to visit this place, on their social networks or through WhatsApp you can complete this process. It is also important to know that before eating you will live a tour of the farm, it is not a fast food place, it is a place to enjoy with time.
The family members themselves who created this farm and restaurant are in charge of guiding diners along the paths of their house. A tour that begins at the mojarra and tilapia hatchery, this is where the word aquaponics will be heard for the first time.
Aquaponics is a plant and fish production system that combines hydroponics with aquaculture. In a cyclical way, the resources that are used for the production of fish will be used for the production of plants. All these products give life to your menu and help reduce losses or losses as they find a way to always reuse.
As the tilapia family explains, it is a system that provides balance to their farm, a process that in the end concludes at the tables of their diners.
Being producers of mojarra and tilapia, these two types of fish have become main dishes on their menus. In addition to fish & ships, ceviches, aguachiles, tacos, and of course, drinks to accompany these dishes.
Entire families enjoy a place created by a family. There are activities in which children will be able to fish, meet some farm animals and also understand processes to create a sustainable ecosystem.
Few places allow a reflection on ecology and the environment like the Granja La Familia Tilapia. At the end of the day, after tasting a homely dish and, literally, produced at home, there is reflection on consumption and what we do to improve our way of life.
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