Home grown food it very important to help lower your carbon footprint and help the world. Many reasons for growing your food, like purchasing less store bought food and knowing where your food it from, are just some great reasons to grow food. With less store bought food, the less transportation is needed lowering the amount of carbon being released into the air is less. If more people grow their own food, this will benefit the world and the people.
When people grow their own food or buy it locally it saves time, money and uses less fossil fuels. The large grocery stores often get their food from large farms far away. This means that farmers are having to travel long distances to deliver the food. In the article How Growing Your Own Food Can Benefit the Planet and Why You Should Consider It, it states “the average distance of 1,500 miles is traveled before the food is consumed”. At the large farms many pesticides are being sprayed on the foods. On the other hand, when growing your own food you get to know and put what you want on your food. Having food easily accessible , getting fresh food is easy to place on the table. Along with lowering the carbon output, the price goes down too. Instead of paying for expensive organic food from large stores, you can easily grow the food. With the food grown nearby less transportation is required for you and others, your food is controlled by yourself and the expenses for food go down with your carbon footprint.
Overall when growing food at home your carbon footprint will decrease. Due to less transportation needed for you to get food, knowing what is being put or not put on your food and the decrease in price payed for food, home grown is beneficial. Anytime in the day food outside or inside your home is available to be put on the table at a reduced price. An easy, healthy, fun and less expensive way to lower your carbon footprint and to help the world is to grown your own food or to try and buy locally.
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I agree. The shorter the distance the food has to travel to get onto your dinner table the better.

My family and I have been planning to grow our own fruits and vegetables but have never gotten to it. We even bought the fertilizer but have not gotten to spreading it and enriching the soil. I agree with your statement about reducing carbon footprint by producing our own food without having to purchase food. This would go a long way if people who could adopted this practice. I feel by growing our own food we will get to be more involved with the process and more invested to saving our own environment. Agriculture and transportation accounts for about 40% of greenhouse gas emissions. If we could also find better ways to keep insects away from crops without damaging the soil it would benefit us greatly.

I have had a home garden since I was little and loved planting on every year, however now my family and I have drifted away from that and have been buying everything from the store. It would be helpful to the environment, myself, and my family if we started just to grow a few of our own vegetables or fruits again.

Not only does eating locally reduce one's carbon footprint, it also is better for our health. As you mentioned, many large companies and chains must have their food travel very far, which increases the need for preservatives and harmful chemicals in products. Like you said, there also tend to be more use of pesticides in larger farms which are added to our atmosphere, our bodies, and even back into the earth when those crops decompose. Supporting local businesses is incredibly important so that they can stay in business, which helps our environment and health. I know my school has helped with this by having our own Living Lab, a large garden where we grow many of our own vegetables and use them in our cafeteria very often. We also compost, which is a great way of recycling the organic food back into our own soil without need for long hours of transportation in trucks or cars.

I agree with everything said above. My grandmother grows her own array of fruits and veggies in her backyard and I find them to be more delicious than store bought items. Also, my grandma does not waste anything. If she has some leftover fruit that she knows she won't be able to eat fresh in time, she turns it into jam or marmalade. Home growing is one of the only ways you can know for sure that your food is pesticide free. Not only is home grown food delicious, but it reduces carbon emissions as well since you're not continuously driving back and forth from the store to buy produce.

I agree with all of the above points. I have a garden of my own, and we grow many varieties of fruits and vegetables. I never use pesticides. Having a garden reduces carbon emissions, because the food does not have to be transported. Also, whenever I rip out the plants at the end of the season, I compost them. I then use the soil, from the compost, to start a new round of plants.

I agree growing food can cut down packaging when you buy food from the store. Im lucky that I live somewhere where you can easily start a garden, the weather conditions are good and it rains a lot.