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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Should All Schools Have a Garden?
Growing fruits and vegetables at home can help with a lot of things like, eating healthy, producing more oxygen, and helping with the reduction of climate change. What's a place where you learn, and are at most of the day, school! Some schools provide gardens for their students, but most schools don't have a garden, even they should. There are many reasons why all schools should provide vegetable garden. It can help teach students about healthy living, we've had some more recent problems with obesity, especially in the U.S, so by having a garden kids will learn how to eat healthier reducing the rate of obesity. Secondly, it will help reduce our already large carbon footprint, instead of families and schools buying food in packages, they can grow it right in there garden, reducing the production of CO2 in our atmosphere. Since all plants produce Oxygen, having a garden will increase the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere, reducing carbon footprints. having a school garden can help things other that carbon footprints, it can help students learn teamwork, cooperation, and learn more about subjects like math and science. studies show that schools with gardens have significantly higher scores in math and science then schools without. Lastly schools with gardens will teach students how to create there own gardens at home. Families all over will start to make gardens helping reduce the treat of climate change making the Earth a more healthy and clean place. Climate change is becoming a large threat of the Earth and the life on it doing things as small as a garden or even just planting a single plant, can help a lot in the long run. We should all convine our families and school boards to make a garden to help save our home.
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