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 at home is very cost efficient and uses less resources and is less wasteful, and also compost can be used as fertilizer and to grow you're a homegrown food, which reduces waste and causes the compost to be used for something resourceful.
I agree. Growing your own food reduces the use of vehicles that release carbon to transport the food from the farm to the grocery store and from the grocery store to your home. Additionally, I also agree that using compost as fertilizer can reduce the use of new materials that have to be made.
I agree. Growing food at home is a great way to reduce your carbon footprint. This will help smaller businesses who grow local and organically and reduce the sales of large companies that use preservatives and other toxic substances. By growing food at home ypu are also benefitting your fertilizer which can help your garden and plants thrive!