
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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Benefits of having a home garden

Although I do not have a garden or want to own one myself, my grandma does and I spent a lot of time in it when I was little. Some benefits to a garden are for environmental well being, it slows down habitat destruction, but also boosts the harbouring of biodiversity in the area as well. There are also some health benefits, it can relieve stress and lower blood pressure.

I agree that gardens are good for environment. My family has a garden and I agree that it is great for relieving stress. When you eat food grown in your garden, you feel proud and happy, because you know you helped environment. Growing garden is also good for your health, because you are working in the fresh air.

I have a big garden and 65% of the vegetables we consume as a family comes from this garden. We rarely buy vegetables, but when we do, we buy either organic or locally sourced. I also like working in the garden. At the moment I'm planting potatoes so in summer we can have our own.

I agree that growing fruits and vegetables is very important and everyone should do it. Having a garten is useful because it reduces carbon footprint. That is because there is no transport from field to table which would pollute the air. Growing in our own garten is also healthy because we can regulate the amount of pesticides or eliminate them completely.

I completely agree with you. Having an at home garden is a way to save money because you wouldn't have to buy fruits and vegetables all the time. Also it is safer to eat home grown fruits and vegetables seeing as we can never know what chemicals the store bought fruits and veggies are sprayed with. However, not everyone has the opportunity to grow their fruits and veggies at home(they live in a flat, don't have the space for a garden, etc.)