A bit of home gardening is an ideal way to reduce your food carbon footprint.
Any produce that you grow at home will save on transport. Then, if it goes straight from garden to plate you are cutting out packaging and storage.
If you are composting your kitchen and garden waste then you are definitely on to a winner. Even if your council provides a recycling service for this waste you are cutting down on the fuel required to transport it to the recycling facility.
If you have a large garden and plenty of spare time then it is relatively easy to grow your own vegetables and fruit. In reality, you can get started even with a window box.
The following list will fit into window boxes, pots, grow bags, containers or in the garden and require just 1.5 m². It’s amazing how much food you can harvest from such a small space.
Dwarf French Green Beans x 3, Mixed lettuces x 10, Rocket x 10, Mizuna x 10, Spinach x 10, Golden Streak mustard x 10, Spring Onions x 10, Beetroot x 10, Basil x 1 pot, Parsley x 1 pot, Chives x 1 pot
Recycling your food waste need not take too much space either. Wormeries are ideal for compact areas.
- Worms can eat and digest up to half their own body weight each day.
- The casts they produce contain top quality compost and a concentrated liquid feed.
- Ideal for those with a small outdoor/garden space or for those looking for an alternative to a compost bin.
- Can provide a useful backup for those who want small quantities of very rich compost
Worms are not too fussy and will happily munch on items that might otherwise go into landfill:
waste from vegetable juicers , soaked and ripped pizza boxes, paper, tissues, dirt , leaves , hair, cardboard fast food packaging, egg shells, potato peelings , apple cores & pea pods.
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