Eating locally home or grown food helps reduce the climate problem because purchasing food all the way across the world leads to the burning of fuel and production of mass carbon as the food must be transported to wherever your location is. Food produced in factories furthermore adds to this as fossil fuels are burned in order to produce the food. Other potential environmental and social benefits of eating locally-grown food is that it will help flourish your at-home-garden as you will be forced to care for and nurture the land the food is being produced in.