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Food miles measure the distance food travels from production to consumer, with some produce traveling thousands of miles. Urban gardening allows growing food in small spaces like balconies or community gardens in cities. Companies help people set up gardens in yards or on rooftops or patios. The benefits of urban gardening include health, economic, community, and environmental advantages from locally grown organic food.
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- 2. Content • Food Miles • Urban Gardening • Space & Set-up • Benefit
- 3. Food Miles • Food miles are a way of attempting to measure how far food has travelled before it reaches the consumer. • It is a good way of looking at the environmental impact of foods and their ingredients. • It includes getting foods to you, but also getting waste foods away from you, and to the landfill!
- 4. Distance Foods Travel Food Distance Lettuce 1,836 miles. Banana 4,634 miles. Lemon 3,145 miles. Garlic 3,155 miles. Carrot 2,746 miles. Tomatoes 1,900 miles.
- 5. • Urban gardening refers to the practice of planting a garden in the city. • Apartments, townhomes, and other areas with little to no land Urban Gardening
- 6. Space
- 7. Space • Companies that help people grow their own fresh food in their own backyard, front yard, patio, balcony or rooftop. • Community gardens
- 8. Benefit • Health benefits • Economic benefits • Community benefits • Environmental benefits
- 9. Organic, and sustainably-grown food you can feel proud of eating and sharing with your friends and family.
- 10. Thank you