My mother decided to take the initiative, one day, to start growing some foods in our backyard instead of buying them. My parents are Indian, and Indian food uses a lot of curry leaves. Therefore, my mother decided that planting curry leaves would be an excellent idea. Along with curry leaves we planted okra, tomatoes, tindora (ivy gourd), potatoes, and a few others. I'd known the small eco-friendly things that growing home-grown foods does, such as cutting down transportation costs and pollution. What I didn't know was some of the major things home-growing food impacted. For example, preventing soil corrosion. According to http://foodmatters.tv/articles-1/top-10 … anic-food, The Soil Conservation Service estimates more than 3 billion tons of topsoil are eroded from the United States’ croplands each year. This means that soil erodes seven times faster than it’s built up naturally. Soil is the foundation of the food chain in organic farming. However, in conventional farming, the soil is used more as a medium for holding plants in a vertical posit ion so they can be chemically fertilized. By growing food at home, you're preventing soil corrosion. Another reason this article says you should home-grow your food instead of buying it is because home-growing your food protects water quality. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates pesticides - some cancer causing - contaminate the groundwater in 38 states, polluting the primary source of drinking water for more than half the country’s population. By home-growing your food, you're not using pesticides, and therefore not polluting the water. This also proves why not only home-growing your food is very eco-friendly, but also if you buy food, you should buy organic food.