Strawberries

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HOW TO BE AN ENVIRONMENTALIST: GOTTA GIT A GREEN THUMB

If you don't have one already, there's no better time than the present to start

your own vegetable garden, whether it's on your own land or in a local community

plot. According to the latest data from the US Department of Agriculture, the

level of home food production is at its lowest point in US history. With the

average food traveling more than 1500 miles from farm to fork, the environmental

impact of big agribusiness foods is at an all time high. Concerned about global

warming and peak oil? Consider the fact that it takes 400 calories of fossil

fuels to transport a single 5 calorie strawberry from California to East Coast

supermarkets. What's more, that flavorless non-organic strawberry was grown with

methyl bromide, a carcinogenic and ozone depleting pesticide. In contrast, a

perennial patch of strawberries in your yard grows back on its own every year,

requires no fossil fuels and no pesticides, and tastes a whole lot better. The

environmental benefits of growing some

of your own food are staggering. The Organic Consumers Association is

developing a new campaign to help turn every thumb into a Green thumb.

Learn more: http://www.organicconsumers.org/btc/subversive060419.cfm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gurubandhu

 

If you cannot see God in all,

You cannot see God at all.

 

Yogi Bhajan

 

 

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