Are there any tips for "green" while shopping?
In addition to locally produced and organic foods, are some elements "greener" than others? For example, are some types of meat and easier on the earth and the environment than others? Takes up less arable land, requires less energy, helps restore the soil nutrients, etc. ..?
If you are buying comes in a package or box, 99% of the time that the product is "green." Exception would be something like Quaker Oats in the tube. Find a local butcher and buy your meat. Then you will not have Styrofoam or plastic trays. No meat from factory farms are easy on the earth, or animals that have been raised that way. Buy dirrectly a small farmer. I realize that all who after that says: "No small farmers to buy near me." If small farmers are only 30 miles from the city of New York, I have a problem with the idea serrious that "can not be found." Buy the items you want to say cooked from scratch. Buy most items in bulk. You can buy little silly packages of yeast, three packages in a band … enough for maybe three loaves of bread for about $ 1. Or you can buy a pound of yeast, enough for a whole year worth of baking for about $ 5. Buy items when in season. At this time of season strawberries. Cherries soon will be. Apples are in season, or melons. So although the supermarket has the items (apples and melons) that have been sent to a great distance, from another country. Find a farmers market. Shop the Farmers Market. Learn to keep your own food. That means the purchase of sufficient markets for farmers to see during the winter. You would not believe the amount of money you can save by food storage and cooking from scratch. ~ Garnet Permaculture homesteading / farming over 20 years
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