Growing and buying local

IT’S hardly a thought uppermost in their minds, but people working in their gardens these days, as they prepare to grow their own vegetables, are helping to make the world a better and healthier place.

Growing, and buying, local has less of an impact on the environment.

With onions being imported from Holland, carrots from Spain and, even more bizarre, lamb from New Zealand, the cost of transporting food to Ireland leaves a carbon footprint and generates more greenhouse gases.