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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Certainly helps a lot
We might not notice, but behind the banana from Florida or wines from Napa is massive carbon release on transportation by ships or trucks. Consuming local goods really help to reduce this pollution and our carbon footprints. Also, local foods are always fresher and cheaper due to less spent on shipping. We have a living lab in our school with lots of vegetables and trees. Every Thursday, my school provides some soups made of veggies from our living lab.
That is correct! Buying food from the grocery store also supports companies which use long distance transportation to bring it's food to stores world wide. They release a lot of carbon dioxide every year.