vmzapata
Registered: December 2008
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Industrial farming is one of the greatest contributors to pollution. However, local farms, unlike mass producing farms, do not use as many harmful chemicals to produce food. They also don’t destroy as many habitats by clearing land like mass producing farms do. Local farms also don’t consume resources like clean water as much as industrial farms do. This means that activities that encourage local farming in turn preserve the environment.
With this in mind, over the summer I volunteered with God’s Green Market, a community group that farms local land and distributes the produce to low income families. We grew hundreds of pounds of food which made a real difference to people in my community, and the project taught me a lot. Not only did I learn important leadership skills and volunteer recruiting skills but I also learned a lot about nutrition and sustainable farming in ways that I’ve been able to apply elsewhere. I now volunteer in the local food pantry, and a local nature center’s garden. I’ve also started a Sustainable Farming school club, and have received approval to start a garden at my high school. And I learned how to turn an idealistic idea into a plan, and then into reality. Each step presented numerous obstacles, and taught me about myself as an idealist, organizer, persuader and leader.
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