Friday, 15 June 2012
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Take A Stand For Local Food
The average suburban home has around 2500 sq feet of lawn. What if we grew food instead of grass? We would create new food economies that could help bring neighbors together through healthy living.
Homegrown food tastes better. Plain and simple. Here’s why: the food you grow at home is fresher, and in season, which delivers better taste.
You will be healthier. You can eat foods at the height of their nutritional value – just picked! You will also find yourself eating more veggies.
Homegrown food is safer. Local foods are handled less, and have less exposure to contaminants than supermarket and restaurant foods. Comparatively, local foods are also stored for shorter periods of time. Taking that to the next level are foods grown in your own yard. Homegrown foods are the LEAST handled and the LEAST exposed and almost never stored. Usually you pick what you need. Homegrown is the safest food you can eat. No E. coli on you my friend.
Take a stand. For local food. Fresh food. Organic food. Non-genetically modified food. For farmers. Clean water. Clean air. Citizen rights!
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Comments (8)
There's actually lot of people who grow their own vegetables and fruits. And how will this work out for those who live in apartments.
If I wanted meat, should I raise animals too?Seriously..
yea sorry no.. i have a dog and 2 kids.. if i took away their back yard for a garden my house would be full of mud.. and the garden would be trashed before anything could grow.
I do however, support our local farmers by buying all our produce at the Farmer's Markets, and we only buy local meat (from my aunt, they raise their own cattle).
I am going to do this. I plan to buy a home in2-3 years and I will convert the yard to a garden where I can grow food.
Well you don't need to use your whole yard for this. Less than half of the average back yard is plenty.
Yeah, sadly this just isn't possible in most places. Our house has no lawn, for example, and neither do most in our area. Even the ones that do aren't big enough for growing food. However, our town does have local markets twice a week and they do sell good, local produce, but I work both the days it's there...so, it's not really an option.
Not worth it. We tried growing our own, and we still have an orchard, but we lose most of the fruit because my family doesn't use pesticides. If there's a big storm or something when the trees are in bloom then we lose EVERYTHING and have nothing to pick.
And, most backyards could never produce enough food to support a family. For that you'd need 4+ acres and that's only if you're doing it right.
It's all right if most people can't do this, and it's all right that it would be completely impractical to make all our food this way. The point is that there is a huge amount of potential.
And for those who don't have or can't use a yard, container gardening works fairly well for some types of veggies. A little bit of a good thing is better than none. My dad grew tomatoes and peppers for fun when I was growing up, and we had a few meals of delicious homegrown food out of the bargain. I've known a few other people who do it this way, too. No one is suggesting we turn our suburban homes into outright farms. And anyway, there's usually more locally grown food to choose from than we are aware of.
We love the idea of growing locally!
Even if you can't manage a whole garden yourself, there are alternative options. As previously mentioned, container gardening is great for things like tomatoes and even green beans. Otherwise check out the local farmer's market We don't think the author intended for EVERYONE to change overnight, but she made a great point. Even if you can only manage a few things, you're providing you and your family with a fun way to get fresh food!