Food Matters for Stewardship

It has a huge impact, but the awareness that the PFP has given me has helped me to reduce this impact.

Some food from faraway places adds carbon to the air in transport. Even local food with organic practices can affect the environment i.e. clear cutting for fields and black plastic ends up in the landfill. Still, a local food economy can create a community like this potluck which builds a happy social environment.

My food affects the environment in so many ways! First where it comes from makes a big difference in terms of transportation…to centers of distribution, carbon emissions. Then there’s all the inputs, fertilizer, etc. You know all of that! But I think what we eat affects our immediate environment too because it can bring such joy & celebration or such sickness. Food can broaden our perspective, our environment or close it off.

In many ways, food is our environment- a part of the environment so important that it is within us.

Most of our food works in tandem with the environment- flowers provide nectar for bees & hummingbirds, seeds for birds & squirrels, etc. We have our own garden so compost almost all scraps & eat very little meat, if any. Still have to import citrus, and avocado, etc., but try to eat locally to lessen our impact when possible.

Growing food in a healthy, chemical-free way is imperative to our collective future!