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 at home food is a good idea but in the big citys are a bit dificult
Growing at home food mean less carbon footprint, but who can do it, it's a incredible small percentage of the rich countries. I am not sure I agree with you. Growing at home food is expensive: you waste too much time, you can't growing for be self-sufficient and extra work for earn. And like you wrote, it's impossible growing in the big cities, for me in the small cities too. I think that it's easyer and advantageous go to the supermarket and buy food.
Yes it is easier to go to the store but you have to make sure you are buying from the right people. The way that a lot of companies grow their food is very unhealthy and unnatural. There are many people in cities who grow their own food. It may not be as easy as going to the store and picking up whatever you want, but it sure is a lot healthier for you and the environment.
Growing a garden in a city can be challenging but the impact can be huge. Andrew Zimmerman said that the effects could be tremendous, our economy would be boosted along with the population eating healthier. (http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2012/03/22/thi … ou-garden/) There are so many ideas about ways to grow urban gardens. This link (http://www.brit.co/herb-gardens/) shows many ways for easy home intercity gardens. This act would financially benefit the economy as well as make us eat healthier.
There are multiple urban garden projects going on, but you don't just have to grow food. Growing flowers is a great way to support many native insects such as butterflies, and they don't take up that much room. If you are really interested in growing your own food at home, there are several type of plants that are not very large but are very nutritious. Vine plants are also a fun thing to grow, such as jasmine, chayote, kiwi, etc. Also, farmer's markets are a very easy thing to go to, and they have a wide variety of foods grown locally.
Like Charlotte said it is a big impact to grow in cities. If everyone had a garden on top of their buildings pollution will go down by a significant amount.
I agree! Growing your own food is great because it reduces the demand for out of state and internationally shipped foods which greatly reduces gas consumption used by both cars and planes. The challenge is for people to learn how to grow their own food, especially given that many people work all day and have no time to grow their own food. If we found a way to make it easy, fast, and affordable for people to grow their own food, it would greatly impact the world in a positive way. If people don't have time to grow their own food, local farmers markets are great alternatives to buying food at a normal grocery store.