Belle Carter – Natural News Feb 2, 2024
A recent study wants to stop people from being sustainably food-independent and discourage them from growing their own food in urban settings. The research indicated that resorting to garden-to-table produce causes a far greater carbon footprint than conventional agricultural practices, such as rural farms.
This research by University of Michigan scientists, which was published in the journal Nature Cities, looked at how much carbon dioxide (CO2) was produced when growing food in different types of urban farms. It found that, on average, a serving of food made from traditional farms creates 0.07 kilogram (kg) of CO2. Meanwhile, the impact on the environment is almost five times higher at 0.34kg per portion for individual city gardens, as per the study.
The paper’s first author Jake Hawes said: “The most significant contributor to carbon emissions on the urban agriculture sites we studied was the infrastructure used to grow the food, from raised beds to garden sheds to pathways, these constructions had a lot of carbon invested in their construction.”
The study recruited 73 urban agriculture sites around the world, including some in Europe, the United States and the United Kingdom, and conducted a comprehensive life cycle assessment on the site’s infrastructure, irrigation and supplies. Hawes and his teammates grouped urban agriculture sites into three categories: individual or family gardens, including allotments; collective gardens, such as community gardens; and larger, commercial-orientated urban farms.
The researchers also found other “hazardous” factors such as poorly managed compost and other synthetic inputs. They further advised that fruit was 8.6 times more eco-friendly when grown conventionally compared to in a city, whereas vegetables were 5.8 times better for the environment when left to the professionals. However, they found that some crops have a lower carbon footprint than others and can help green-fingered members of the public make their allotment or garden better for the environment. Tomatoes and asparagus grown domestically have a lower carbon footprint than conventional farming, they added.
“We find that urban farmers and gardeners can reduce their net impact by focusing on foods that are high-carbon in conventional agriculture,” Hawes said. “Two examples of this that we identify are greenhouse-grown crops, including many tomatoes, and crops that are often flown in from across the planet, such as asparagus.”
Moreover, two-thirds of the carbon footprint of allotments is created by the garden itself, as per their data. They suggested that gardeners build their site with recycled or second-hand materials, wherever possible, with emissions being cut by more than half if waste from other parts of a city were upcycled for the beds and sheds, for example.
Indoor plants harvest carbon emissions
Urban gardeners used to have no qualms about greening their indoor spaces. For one, this reduces city living anxieties and emotional stress. Also, being able to take care of plants inside their offices and homes could be part of interior design and a slight improvement in air quality. (Related: The science behind the benefits of gardening for mental health and well-being.)
But climate alarmists are not going to give city dwellers peace of mind. According to them, greening indoor spaces can also come at an environmental cost, citing carbon emissions from the trucks that transport plants, plastic pots and synthetic fertilizers. These, they said, are made from petroleum and the harvesting of soil components like peat can “tear up slow-forming habitats.”
Susan Pell, the director of the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C., downplayed the narrative and said that individuals should still be able to grow potted plants. They just need to follow some of her tips to minimize the “environmental harm of indoor gardening.” These included looking for local plants via garden clubs online to save some money. She also encouraged gardeners to buy pots, shears, trowels, plant stands and other tools locally and think about durability, recommending terracotta and ceramic pots. Pell further recommended opting for sustainable soil and according to her, the least sustainable soil component is peat, a rich brown substance formed from partially decayed plant matter at the bottom of bogs and other wetlands. Peat, which is a precursor to the formation of coal, releases carbon dioxide when it is harvested. She said: “It takes hundreds of years if not thousands of years to form. We’re cutting into these peatlands and eventually, they’ll all be harvested.
“Every little thing we do adds up collectively, so if all of us are doing these things, the collective impact is quite large,” she said. Plus, “the mindful act of trying to be more sustainable in one area of your daily life … helps you to be mindful in other areas.”
Head to HomeGardeningNews.com for more stories related to growing plants and crops at home.
I watched a documentary years ago about the city of Detroit in the US, it was made not long after the 2008 crash. In the film they went to areas that were deserted due to the crash, whole streets with all the houses lying empty and no sign of them being occupied any time soon. What was happening though was some people had started using the empty gardens to grow food for themselves, they were so successful they started selling the extra produce to the public who started coming from all over. Some of them had started more gardens and were making a decent living from it. Then the council and cops started turning up asking questions and being the pests they are. The film crew interviewed a few of the people who were working the gardens and asked them why they were getting trouble from the authorities, they all said it was coming from the major supermarkets who were losing trade and money because so many people were going to the street gardens. That will be one reason they don’t want us growing our own food, if we do we will not be giving them money by buying theirs.
It’s doesn’t matter what area of society you come from, or what you do, there will be Nazis to greet you with their razor tongues, their lies, and jack boots on your necks, lest you breath too much and expel too much CO2.
I’ve not read this article, because it’s the usual fear mongering the Nazis love so much.
Take their fake news fear mongering drive to conscription, well, that died outside the recruitment office. There been staggering opposition, as in, no fecking chance! So they tried the summer camp, which is really, ‘you come along, and you’re signed up. We’ll give you a call when we have a vacant space in the trenches on the Russian front’.
Even though there’s been massive opposition to conscription, these same sheeple will be going to the ballot boxes. You will never be allowed to vote for a ‘no war candidate’, which ironically means, any vote cast, is a vote for war.
This is all very strange. In my 20 plus years on this site, and many others, and reading and watching huge quantities of official and alternative media, no one has ever said: ‘don’t vote’. No one. Some have said, It doesn’t matter who you vote for, or your vote doesn’t count, such as in many US states, where voting is literally a waste of time, but no one ever says ‘Don’t Vote’.
You’re allowed to moan and complain about the Nazi system, and the Nazi elites even like a certain amount of kick back, but you can never debase the myth of voting.
A lots of sheeple with gardens are doing something towards growing their own food, so when they read fear stories like this one, they actually become more motivated to vote. It doesn’t matter who they vote for, it’s all the one party Nazi state, but so long as the myth is kept alive, all is well.
There isn’t one single party that has a relevant policy directed at a serious issue.
We think solders and those in the armed forces should be rewarded accordingly. Front line troops will be paid £100k per year, and after 10yrs service, a £250k tax free bonus will be paid. If you die in service, £1 million to your next of kin, tax free. I am sure Lordy Jacob Rothschild can afford this, and I am very sure, they’ll be queuing down the streets to join up, and the Nazis will be forced to get value for money, so with our new 500k army, we can send them to UKraine.
It’s the same with carbon tax credits. Where is your individual tax credit??? Many ordinary and poor sheeple could be selling their tax credits for hard cash, but oh no, TCs are only for corporates. Funny that, but it thicko sheeple who pay for pointless green policies. You think the corporates pay? No, they pass the cost to the sheeple, but hey oh, you fecking idiots voted for it, just like every election, you vote for wars, you vote to completely subsidise the UK arms industry, even those working in Nazi Amerika, working for UK arms companies, you the fecking sheeple, pay their wages, big wages.
So off you toddle, and cast your vote for the Nazis, the Joos, the Zionists, the war mongers, and the City Crime Cartels.
These devils will tell you that Black is White.
I can see how that crazy governor of NY will one day make it illegal or taxable for her New Yorkers to grow their own food in their own yards. It only takes one or two states to start it off, in order to “stop harming the planet”; and this Susan out of DC is just another DC brat , another idiot actor telling us its best to buy over priced produce without flavor, thats traveled billions of miles from who knows where (china,etc). Of course passing on the “transportation” costs over to us to pay.
I would compost the brains of these scientists for farmers’ fields, along with those of Flat Earthers and BLM witches
Absurd, Scaremongering climate experts are hazardous for the planet?
Subheading to article states: ‘The elite have a problem with home gardening…”
Yeah, they’re not the ‘elite’ but scum. Best to start terming them the ‘ruling scum’ than the ‘elite’. By terming them the ‘elite’ you’re unconsciously sanctioning or justifying their actions, since if they’re the elite, then they must ‘know what’s best’ for everyone. Figure it out.
Meanwhile the University of Michigan charlatans after getting all of their grant money forgot to note in their studies that our contribution of CO2 to the planet through farming and growing things is completely harmless.
The real danger of people growing their own vegetables and fruits in their little gardens is that they may grow organic ones and be more healthy. They just may avoid contaminating their systems with pesticides and other toxins which the big agri-corporations are using to make a killing – in more ways than one. Also, the holy gospel of the New World Order stipulates “Thou shalt not be independent from the centralization efforts of the almighty top-down corporatocracy”. Self determination of individual persons and families with any real independence from the state, the oligarchs, the corporate monopolies and trusts, and from the international banking cartel is VERBOTEN.
Glyphosate
Exposure to even low doses of glyphosate-based herbicides during pregnancy has been found to impair fertility, cause intrauterine growth restriction and induce fetal malformations.
Glyphosate Autism
The findings were striking: children whose mothers had higher levels of glyphosate in their urine during pregnancy were more likely to be diagnosed with autism. Specifically, the study found that for every tenfold increase in maternal glyphosate levels, there was a 42% higher risk of autism in the child.
Chemical Farming & The Loss of Human Health – Dr. Zach Bush – After Skool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw16LPVnNco&t=525s
Why Glyphosate is Dangerous, and How to Avoid Eating it
https://www.mygenefood.com/blog/why-glyphosate-is-dangerous-and-how-to-avoid-eating-it/
FU U Mich! We know where you get your grant money from. You have no ‘integrity’ and you do not even know what the word means.
https://principia-scientific.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Greenhouse-gases-compared-to-whole-atmosphere-1.jpg
Global Warming morphed into Climate Change we the false predictions of boiling didn’t occur. They said our children would not know snow, and now we have snow in abundance. Now they say warming is causing more snow. Complete lunacy, so it is no surprise the lunatics reach for more power – no gardening for you Goyim, we must save the planet, growing carrots is causing carbon Goyim, stop harming the planet Goyim, those spinach leaves are exceeding your carbon limit.
https://electroverse.info/
https://www.serendipity.li/climate/hieb/greenhouse_data.html
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/12/08/guardian-children-wont-know-what-snow-is-again/
“thanks to Global Warming, “children just aren’t going to know what snow is”
Still snowing here in south Oregon, started snowing months ago and it is still snowing, day after day, month after month.
chemtrailing aluminium added to drinking water plus 50 carcinogenic additives to supermarket food
aluminium saucepans
will produce alzheimers
please see this by Dr
https://stage2225.brandnewtube.com/watch/MRl3QgeYGZR1nAL
there are to many white intelectual unproductive idiots
on this planet . its time to give them spades to dig mass
graves !
Auch ‘VERBOTEN’:
Cultivate Elevate – Why They Banned Borax in 30 countries
bitchute.com/video/MnFkbDoLbXY6/
Stupidity rules 🙁
But you’ll be OK gardening if you PAY !
What was the proposed ‘garden Tax’ Suggestion…£102. because,
“It costs money to care for the Migrants, & the money has to come from somewhere” (sic) grrrr.
So similar to watching a TV, pay a ‘fee’ & they’ll keep off your back.
Shysters the lot of them,
Rob shops in gangs, the porkies turn a blind eye,
Buy a Bible with a ‘card’…& ‘they’ track you & your spending habits ‘keeping an eye on you’.
A NUFC fan commented on one of their media platforms, ‘You are either a man or a woman’, ‘they’ followed up on that comment, the culprit was BANNED from attending St James park until 2026.
Just about every single poster on this web-site is a potential GULAG inmate, Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
In isolated regions in various locations, ‘they’ now say it’s Illegal to be homeless ? WTF ?
Britain is ALREADY Communist, We are living in darker times than the Stazi-policed DDR
i like this aleister guy too
Those morally and scientifically bankrupt “University of Michigan scientists” should be dragged through the streets by their ankles, get the ever living piss beaten out of them, then hanged. “First author” Jake Hawes deserves to have his tongue ripped out, his hands sawed off and stuffed up his ass, then fed into a wood-chipper with the exhaust sprayed onto the dangling corpses of his cohorts.
Anyone who tries to tell you not to grow some of your own food or that your garden is a threat to humanity should be strangled or beaten into the ground with a shovel on the spot.
My sincerest recommendation is for everyone to strive to be as food “secure” as possible. Have as big a garden you can manage, add a greenhouse, have some good reliable chickens, have access to a stocked chemical-free pond. Hell, get some cows and goats if you have the acreage. But what you DON’T do is not keep a garden because some compromised corrupt asshole paid off by genocidal psychopaths tells you that your garden has too much of a “carbon footprint” or some other demonic fabrication.
Never forget this: the carbon they want to reduce is YOU.
Here’s a photo and some info on the “paper’s first author”, Jake Hawes. Get a load of that ghoulish needle-dick pipsqueek. Looking at his grotesque visage and pathetic limp noodle physique, it’s no wonder he’s pissed at nature and mankind….he kind of reminds Bill Gatestein in that regard. I wonder if Hawes took a cream pie to the face too, like the one that sent Gatestein into full-on psycho mode? They both deserves a chainsaw to the face….
https://seas.umich.edu/research/phd-profiles/jason-jake-hawes
While McPhee mused that Euell Gibbons had no agenda other than to point out how most of the Earth’s good food cannot be found in supermarkets — Gibbons once told McPhee that “there is nothing I would rather do than eat my way through a roadside ditch”
“You act like a man who’s finding money,” said McPhee.
“That’s exactly it,” said Gibbons. That’s exactly the way I feel.”
I live in the suburbs and I garden.
And they’ll have to take my paw paw from my cold dead hands.
the biggest danger is our own insiders
folk here who are 5th columnists the tony bairs kier starmers and carl jones types
who continually talk bullshit
>>> Those morally and scientifically bankrupt “University of Michigan scientists” should be dragged through the streets by their ankles, get the ever living piss beaten out of them, then hanged. << BOTTOM
That is ALL Bilderbergers (incl. attendees!!) and those MF’s from WEF (world ENSLAVEMENT forum)
I know, it isn’n the real top but it’s start right 🙂
God, what would I give 2 see them punished 4 their CRIMES..
It’s imho the best that could happen this year.
jamesbalderson: but James, for some odd reason, you keep reading me?
Let’s be frank, you’re one of these. A Jew, a Zionist, or a Nazi. Which is it, or are you all three?
i wonder how much the ADL or MI5 is paying this commie jones nutter?
@ karel … I like how you put it: WEF = World Enslavement Forum….spot on!
University of michigan must be getting a grant from Bill Gates.
(Repeating myself)–a Carl Jones sentence is a vehicle for the word Nazi, which he is not using as a word like a playing card for you to evaluate but like the words “left” or “right” when screamed by a Sergeant-Major. Only a more primitive part of the brain is supposed to hear it, but he forgets that we are fully conscious