How much does eating locally-produced food help the climate problem? What are the other potential environmental and social benefits of eating locally-grown/produced food? Do you have a food garden in your school or at home? If not, do you want one?
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Environmental Impact home-grown products
Growing fruits and vegetables at home help reduce carbon emissions by reducing transportation of these products. Not only does reducing the number of huge diesel trucks off the roads eliminate their carbon emissions, we also reduce traffic which in turn saves the amount of idle time other vehicles spend in traffic, which again helps reduce carbon output. Also, who wants to drive to the grocery store.
While I do agree growing fruits and vegetables at home is a good idea, it takes a very long time to grow these things. I can see this work if more people become farmers EVERYWHERE around the world as this would mean that no transporting fruits and veggiesssssssss. This seems unlikely to happen but who knows, 2020 was weird in itself.