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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Home Grown: Wasting Less
I live in Houston, and my dad has a garden and loves to care for it. While the heat limits what we can grow, we still grow what we can. When we grow food, we use it in our house to cook and give away to friends. In this homegrown food, there are no GMO's and no waste with packaging. With a garden, it is also easier to lessen your waste by composting. We have a trash bin full of compost and my dad uses it in his gardens. If many people used a garden at home, it would significantly lessen how much we waste, both by less packaging and by composting.
I completely agree with this,and I also have a vegetable garden at my house as well. I also think that schools should try growing different fruits and vegetables in gardens to use in school food. Although it will only be limited at first, I believe that any food that is grown or used is better than none at all. According to this website (http://whosgreenaz.com/2011/02/01/grow- … vironment/) growing your own food reduces pesticides and chemicals usually used in foods that are mass grown. Also, growing your own food reduces the carbon emissions used in transportation of foods shipped from other countries. So, growing your own vegetables and fruits is better for the environment and also cheaper than buying from a local store.
I completely agree with what you are saying. Over this summer, my family and I have barely gone to the grocery store. We have nearly about 40 fruit trees in our backyard and are growing almost every type of vegetable possible. This has limited the amount that we need to go to the grocery store. We use a lot of water, but all of our fruits and vegetables are grown organically. It is also cheaper than buying from a grocery store.
At my old school, we had a garden where each grade level learned how to plant and harvest foods so that they could do it at their house in a small backyard garden. Because we were taught how to grow vegetables, many of us started to grow them at home. According to http://www.greeneatz.com/foods-carbon-footprint.html, conventional farming methods have a much larger impact on the environment than organic farming methods. Growing plants without pesticides is much better for the environment than farming with pesticides because of reduced carbon emissions.