Every spring since I was a child, my father and I would plant a garden that would provide my family with vegetables for the summer. From tomatoes to potatoes, my dad grew them all, and what he could not grow we picked up from a local farmer less than a mile away. However, after September when all our crops have been eaten, we would have to get our produce from the supermarket. We, like most people, do not have access to fresh local foods all year long. Which is one of many issues a community should take into consideration before starting a locavore initiative.
The greatest concern is that many people live in places where they cannot eat fresh local produce all year. As well as the many people who do not have access to local produce at all as seen in Source G with the igloo in Antarctica. However, some people would also be able to eat the locavore diet if they could get food from places that may not be local. For example, people in Indiana who lived as locavores could live off of corn, soy beans, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, green beans, …show more content…
It is a commonly held misconception that locavorism lessens the total amount of energy used in transport which betters the environment. When taking into consideration the way “food miles are calculated”, people will discover that a shipper with 2,000 apples traveling 2,000 miles consumes the same amount of fuel per apple as a local truck with 50 apples traveling 50 miles away (Source C). Getting things locally may seem better for the environment, until looking at the energy consumed to scale. In fact, the majority of all greenhouse gas emissions associated with household food consumption lies in the production of the products themselves and not in the transportation (Source D). An efficient solution to gas emissions of production lies in the locavorism movement by not processing food because it is fresh eliminating most of the need for