Climate Change Info

The food that you eat travels an average of more than 1,500 miles to reach your plate. Eating locally sourced food supports your local farmers directly. By sourcing your food from organic local farmers, you reduce the distance that food has to be shipped, and reduce your carbon footprint. The more you can grow your own food, the better. Growing vegetables organically can put carbon into the soil, making the soil into a carbon "sink".

If you raise cattle, feeding them corn or other grain feed releases a lot of carbon through all the carbon used in growing the grain. Cows are meant to eat grass, and while they grow faster if they are eating corn, it isn't very healthy. A rotational grazing pattern - where cows are held in a pasture where they can eat grass, then when they eat all of the grass they are moved to a different pasture to let the grass regrow - is a healthy way to raise cattle, both for the cows and the planet, because the cows eating the grass actually release a lot of carbon into the soil (see the video). Creating more carbon sinks. If you also raise chickens for eggs. you can bring them to the pasture that the cows just left, and the will eat the bugs from all the cow poop.