Eating locally produced food helps the climate by not having the food being made in a factory. Meaning no machines have to be used to create the food. Eating home grown is a lot healthier cause it is filled with all natural stuff. Your body needs certain healthy things to function and a lot of what is needed can easily be grown. I used to have a garden and it produced really fresh yummy things. Without the extra preservatives and all the other bad things.

I would definitely agree, eating home grown plants is a much better alternative to buying certain foods sold in stores. Some of these foods and their preparations have a large part our carbon footprints. The reason why packaged foods are treated with so many chemicals and processes is so they can safely grow and have a longer lifetime on the shelves without rotting or decaying. This causes food to be about *20%* of the USA 's carbon footprint. This aside, I am glad to say that my family has a large garden in our backyard and we grow many of the plants and herbs we use in our home cooking. We do this as one way to help our own carbon footprint in our own household.