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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I think that growing at home is a really simple and easy way to not only eat healthier foods but also help minimize the carbon footprint. At school, we have a garden where they grow fruits and vegetables that are used to make lunch for school, which is a great example of minimizing packaging and transportation of the ingredients. Growing your own food or even buying food from local markets will drastically change how much carbon emissions are released from plastic packaging of foods. Delivery trucks will emit less CO2 into the atmosphere as they are driving less than if you were to buy from a non local farmer. I think that growing your own food in your backyard is the best solution and I hope to start a garden of my own.
I agree with you Anna, growing food is a great way to eat healthy and minimize your Carbon footprint. Growing your own food allows you be to sustainable and requires no pollution be given off from vehicles and other things used to transport it. Also, there is no waist produced by growing your own things, there is no packaging used when you grow your own food, which means you are drastically lowering your Carbon output.
I have a big backyard and my parents grow a lot of plants. We have about 20 fruit trees and many different kinds of vegetables. In the summer, we barely even have to buy any food and this cuts down on the purchases factor of our carbon footprint. The food is organic and there is very little CO2 emission from us going to the store to buy food.
I agree. Growing your own fruits and vegetables at home is an easy way to eat healthy and lower your carbon foot print. Instead of buying produce from a grocery store which create large c02 emissions, growing at home creates little to none.
Like you said this is a great way to cut down on CO2 emissions and even to lead a healthier life. Knowing what goes into your food, whether it be how much water or not using harmful pesticides has its good affects. I like have you gave another option of buying local because not everyone has the space or time to grow their own garden. But like most ideas to stay sustainable and green, if a lot of people pitch in somehow it can make a bigger change with each individual putting a lesser amount of work because it's not always easy in certain situations.