TeamGreenBritain, convert “food miles” to “food feet”
Counting your food miles
What’s the real environmental impact of your weekly shop? Caspar van Vark reveals the truth about food miles.
An obsession with locally sourced food is sweeping the nation. Restaurant menus boast of the local provenance of their ingredients, while TV chefs remind us that British is best. If we buy a pack of mange tout from Kenya, we do so with a vague sense of shame.
The environmental impact of food miles is now a big issue for shoppers and supermarkets. On the surface, it seems simple.– buying apples from Dorset must be better for the planet than transporting them all the way from New Zealand.
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Counting your food feet
Why not turn over your garden – or your neighbour’s garden if you don’t have one of your own – to food production? Negligible food miles, plus social, health & environmental benefits all round!
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“food feet” is possibly hereby used for the first time to illustrate the possibility of growing food in your garden or in one nearby and its authorship is claimed by Ian Springham for and on behalf of GardenLend.co.uk
Any questions, drop us a line: info@gardenlend.co.uk
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