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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Growing Your Own Food
Growing your own food can be beneficial to the environment. Transporting fruits and vegetables from all across the world can have a huge impact on the environment. they would have to travel from the farm to either an airport or shipping dock. then that airplane or ship would travel across the world causing loads of emotions all by themselves. however there are more benefits to growing your own food than just lowering travel emissions. According to the University of New Hampshire, food grown at home has more nutrients. Food that comes from a distance is not as fresh as home grown and therefore loses some of its nutritional value. growing your own food could also be a fun activity for a family or neighborhood. I have fond memories from my younger years of planting carrots and tomatoes with my dad and watching as they grew. To read more on benefits of growing your own food go to https://www.unh.edu/healthyunh/blog/nut … r-own-food
How do you determine what season different things can grow in?
I completely agree. I have a garden at my house and we grow a lot of fruits and vegetables. Your carbon footprint can reduce very quickly if you grow food at home. For one thing, it emits carbon to drive your car to the grocery store. Most food that you can buy at a store is mass produced. Mass producing food takes up a lot of carbon. According to Our World in Data, "Food is responsible for approximately 26% of global GHG emissions." They further break this 26% up into different categories of mass agriculture production. "Livestock & fisheries account for 31% of food emissions.", "Crop production accounts for 27% of food emissions.", "Land use accounts for 24% of food emissions." and "Supply chains account for 18% of food emissions". That is a lot of carbon being used just too make food. If every family had a small garden where they could get even some of their food products from, imagine how much lower the climate change numbers would be. If you wanted carrots 27% plus 18% which is 45% and 45% of 26% is 11.7%. That is how much we could reduce climate change by if everyone grew their own crops. Growing food is not a laborious task, it is a fun one to do with your family. Me and my family have been planting a garden every season since I was two years old. This is a good way to socialize with your family, make memories you will cherish forever and significantly decrease carbon emissions.
link to my source: https://ourworldindata.org/food-ghg-emissions