Collected Item: “Gardening: Feeding the Planet and Ourselves”
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Gardening: Feeding the Planet and Ourselves
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Text story
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Gardening is something I learned I loved in the spring of 2019, and I noticed many differences during the pandemic. The garden centers were always busy, much busier than the year before. And often, they would be sold out of things such as vegetables. The article I have shared here I found while researching food insecurity. I have long thought that growing your own food is something that should be more widespread, especially among places of poverty. Of course, this article does not mention the fact that people living in extreme poverty barely have enough water to survive, let alone grow crops with. Regardless, this article makes good points about our soil, our diets, and the future of our planet and species. I think one good consequence of the pandemic is more people will turn to gardening, which opens up many more aspects of life.
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#ArizonaStateUniversity, #HST494, #gardening, #consequences, #foodinsecurity
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https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2021-1-january-february/feature/how-feed-hungry-and-pandemic-ravaged-planet
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Alisha Downs
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2021-04-18