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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ways to reduce your carbon footprint
In modern western culture we are known for our giant supermarkets filled to the brim with overly processed food that is so bad for you and all in thousands of containers of plastic. This is just the normal way for most Americans to provide food to their families. The overwhelming majority of Americans don't grow their own food or eat locally grown food or even just organic at all. The amount of energy it takes to make these widely overproduced over processed foods is out of this world, but it is not a hard task to reduce your part in it. Growing food from home is much simpler than most people would imagine, and you can start small, start with the vegetables you and your family consume the most of and begin to just try and grow enough of those to sustain yourselves on. Then thats one or two less things your getting that is mass produced. Once you have the process of growing things more under your belt expand the things you grow.For things that aren't realistic for you to grow at home, see if any locally grown markets produce it and obtain your produce there. To learn more about starting your own home garden visit: https://cotap.org/reduce-carbon-footpri … xgQAvD_BwE