Realistic ways anyone can plan to reduce pesticides and save money in your life
1. Make your own compost
- Don’t buy dirt anymore- save food scraps from landfill you can save money.
2. Grow your own vegetables
- Eliminate the transportation costs involved in the supermarkets.
- Eat truly fresh foods –actually picked straight of the vine.
- Control what is sprayed on you food.
- Save money
3. Shop Local & Little
- Get to know the actual person(s) who grow and/or raise your food.
- Ask if they use GMO’s and/or how they treat their livestock.
- Keeps the local economy healthy .
4. Conserve Water
- Collecting rain water is a great way to lessen your utilities.
- Provides a free resource to water garden.
5. Eat a variety
- If we all ate unpredictable foods
- The tendency to grow only one or two types of every plant or animal will have to lessen.
- Help stop the withdrawal of nutrients in topsoil.
- Our health benefits.
6. Stop purchasing processed
- The more food travels and is messed with (or “processed”) – the more unhealthy it becomes.
- Boycott non-transparent big business that maintains practices that harm our earth.
7. Try alternatives to pesticides
- There are many ways to keep away pest and weeds, while maintaining a healthy crop.
- Do not use synthetic chemicals that will poison food and leach into ground water.
8. Share what you know and learn
- It is important to spread good things to those you know and love.
- Children, friends, neighbors, family all can benefit.
- Starts the foundation needed for attitude changes in national agriculture practices.
9. Cook with outside temperatures in mind
- If it’s hot outside and you have the air on – go cook on the grill.
- If it’s freezing outside the oven is comfortable additional warmth.
10. Stay Vigilant
- If you fall off the wagon and backslide, don’t be too hard on yourself.
- Forgive, Pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start all over again.
- It takes time to form good habits.
From Just Food: Sustainable Food Systems students
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