Home grown foods have many positive impacts on our environment including food waste, enviornmental pollution, and a healthier benefit for yourself. Fist off, when you grow your own food you waste much less than when crops are harvested and processed on a large scale. When on a large scale a good amount of the fruits and vegetables are thrown away because they do not fit the “criteria” that they need to fulfill to be sold in a local grocery store. The food that is kept is thrown away and wasted when they could be put to much better use. Another factor that is beneficial when growing is that it reduces the amount of toxic pesticides and weed killers that enter our air and water streams. The third benefit you get from growing your own food is that you know what is put into growing it and how healthy it is without having to worry about if it is organic or not. In my household we do grow many vegetables in the spring/summer. We also have multiple fruit trees. This benefits us because we can use these instead of going out and buying them from a store.