At my house, I always try to eat healthily. Not only do I try to eat healthily, my family grows food in our backyard too. This is very, very good. It is good because we do not use CO2 driving there and we know exactly what we used to grow our foods. We are also not contributing to the amount of transportation and maybe tractors that go around on the fields to water an plant the food. Also, we sometimes buy food from the local farmer's market (which we walk to) and buy fruits and veggies there. One experience I had was that when I went to a strawberry farm, I found and saw many tractors, which let out a lot of CO2 into the atmosphere, which is harmful to the environment. We usually grow flowers, tomatoes, cucumbers, and zuchinnis. They are usually very successful. At my school, we also grow vegetables and fruits and we have soup from the Living Lab every Wednesday. This is good because when people buy the home grown soup, they do not contribute to the kitchen they gives of CO2.

I think it is awesome that you grow food in your backyard. It is a great way of conserving and not contributing the driving to create more CO2 in the air.