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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Growing food in our own backyards
Lately, it has been more popular to purchase local and or organic food, but we could take it a step further by growing food in our own backyards. For example, we have vegetable garden and lots of fruit trees, and we use the produce often for our meals. This helps in a number of ways. First of all, we are eating natural food rather than processed food, which is not only healthy but better for the environment. Second of all, we are decreasing the amount of food that needs to be transported or delivered to stores or our doorstep, because we get our food from our own backyard.
I think this is great! Also, when having a garden in your backyard, you reduce the amount of food waste with compost. When growing food, you have to use compost to allow it to increase. When creating compost, we use food scraps, and using food scraps for your compost will reduce your food waste tremendously.