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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Home growing impact on the enviroment
Homegrown produce is not only very helpful for the environment but it also is a fun activity to do and you can have whatever fresh produce you want right from your home. When you go to the grocery store and you purchase produce that produce has traveled over 2000 miles just to get to you. Not only does this impact the quality of your vegetables it also impacts the environment tremendously. Most likely that vegetable had to travel from another country or state to get to you in large trucks or airplanes. This must dangerously large amounts of CO2 into the air which is a high factor in global warming. By growing your own food in your home you are helping to reduce the amount of carbon emissions polluting our air. A personal benefit to that is that you have food that is grown right in your home so it has maintain a high quality of flavor and freshness. This also saves you an extra trip to the grocery store! Homegrown produce is also much healthier because this makes sure you have no dangerous pesticides or fertilizers in your food. Not only do commercial farms put these chemicals into the soil and water it also limits them into the air which is very dangerous. Pesticide chemicals even have been known to cause cancer. So homegrown food will guarantee you don't get the dangerous chemicals into your body. As well as this having great health benefits and environmental impacts it also is a fun thing to do.