Making homegrown food or buying it from a farmers market has many benefits. For one homegrown food travel a very short distance to reach your table possibly having no carbon footprint if it is grown in your backyard. While the food that is grown in other areas/countries often has to be transported long distances by truck, which on average gets 5.9 mpg (2.5 kmpl), by boat, the average cargo ship can travel 621 miles (1,000 km) burning 73,968 gallons (280,000 liters) of fuel, or by plane, the average nautical miles per gallon is 4.5 (17 liters), while traveling an average of 560 nautical miles (901 km) per hour. Meaning planes burn about 125 gallons of fuel in an hour. All of these possible methods of transportation of our food have massive carbon footprints, which become larger the farther away the food is coming from. This is not to mention the effects of pesticides and chemical fertilizers on our environment. Inorganic fertilizer contains nitrous oxide which breaks down to the ozone layer. The loss of this layer could result in fatal U.V. rays reaching earth's surface. Not only this but they also damage and pollute our water supply and can be fatal to other animals. The use of pesticides is also dangerous for human health and has been proven to cause heart, blood pressure, and kidney problems.

I agree that buying food locally or growing it from home is more healthy for our world.From Michigan State University, I found that buying from farmers around your community can help reimburse the community's economy.As well as that I agree that if the food is bought from farmers nearby then you would not need to worry about contamination. This is important because in our struggle of Covid-19, we need to be as healthy as we can and it is better if the food we buy is more likely to have more nutrients and not have been sitting in a warehouse for a while. My last addition is, I think that if you are able to ask the farmer how they grow their crops and if they use pesticides. Then you can help keep yourself healthy.

I agree that buying local food or growing it yourself is far more healthy, and will help lower our societies carbon emissions.  When food is grown from a far distance, it requires it to be transported all the way to your local grocery store.  As I discussed in my last comment, transportation is the fastest way to expand your carbon footprint, which is why holding transportation to a minimum is the best way to lower carbon emissions.  And this is where locally grown food comes in.  Locally grown food is great because it eliminates any need for a long transportation that requires large amounts of gasoline.  Locally grown food will help support the community in ways most haven't even thought of.  Now when you are in the store, help support your local farm instead of buying things from farms that are far away, and if we all do this, it will help lower our carbon emissions by a lot.