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In my opinion, fresh food is healthier than canned food. Read my opinion text to find out more.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/121JQ9cn225yq4RKfHUDRQl5huwXUZG8q/view?usp=drivesdk

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How to grow a veggie garden? We can all follow simple steps to start our veggie garden at home. You should try building yours if you haven’t done it already.

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Writing the opinion text was not an easy task. We followed the writing process (pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing) and tried our best writing in cursive letter. We all did our best!

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Giving our opinion was also part of this unit. We organized our ideas using an OREO graphic organizer to plan our writing.

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We began with an initial inquiry and recorded our findings and thoughts on a research map.

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There are both advantages and disadvantages of buying local and non-local food. We worked on identifying these positive and negative aspects.

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We inquired into current world issues like COP 26 since it is important to be informed and even more us, the future generations of this planet. We can be part of the change making better choices to contribute to a better world.
Our voice and actions count!

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We learned that the longer the distance the food travels, the larger the carbon footprint that it generates. We find different fruits and vegetables in Colombia so it’s great for us to buy local and that way we help our planet.

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I met a local farmer who sells fresh fruits and vegetables from different regions of Colombia like Tolima, Boyacá, Valle, Coffee Region, and Cundinamarca. It is also common to find apples that come all the way from Chile. We learned that these apples generate a larger carbon footprint since they travel from Chile to Colombia. Have you tried our apples? Local apples?

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We decided to build our veggie garden at home because of all the pollution that there is in the city, Bogotá. We planted mint, basil, chives, cilantro, lettuce, cedron and potatoes. We eat fresh and that is healthy for us.

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I visited the local market “Cosechas Saludables” in Codabas. Most of the vegetables there are from Boyacá, like the onion that is from Aquitania. Local food helps prevent global warming because it is transported by truck in less time than non-local food. Non-local food grows in other places and it is usually processed food and it contributes more to global warming because it is transported by plane or ships so the carbon footprint is larger.

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There is a food center called Abastos where the vast majority of sellers buy the food there and then take it to the markets. However, the vegetables are bought directly from the farmer. Before taking it to Abastos, the farmers plant and grow the food in their farms.

See the rest of my presentation here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xwXlEFgI-qz3ElRv3U0J_tGAv4Th78vS/view?usp=drivesdk

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Nature gives us everything we need. Fruits and vegetables are so nutritious and we can grow them at home to eat fresh and healthy.

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Products that are from the region take half day to reach the point of sale. Products that are from other parts of the country take 1 day to reach the point of sale. Imported products can take 20 days to reach the point of sale.

Watch our home veggie garden video here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16HuG4uuNZDwK0XupaAscbP7-iwoNfUNy/view?usp=drivesdk

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Colombia does not have seasons and therefore there is availability of fruits and vegetables all year round. That is an advantage of us to buy local.

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Colombia has very rich and fresh products. It is better to eat local, but that does not mean that eating non-local food is bad because there are products that are not available here and are also delicious.

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We better do something about this!
If everyone lived like most of us do, we would need 7.9 Earths?!! How is this possible? We only have 1 Earth!!
We must make better choices to reduce our carbon footprint!

We invite you to calculate yours. (Click on “ok” or “cancel” if you see a little pop-up window until you get to the footprint calculator page).

http://www.footprintcalculator.org/home/en

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We also learned how to grow celery without planting seeds. Do it yourself, too! Using the celery we buy at a local market, cut the bottom of it. Then use toothpicks to be able to hold it on a little bowl and add some water to just touch the bottom of the celery. That’s it! You will see how it grows and then you just plant it in your garden!

Ours has been clearly growing!

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It is important to reduce our carbon footprint. One way we can do this is to grow our own food either in a veggie garden at home or in our farm.

Check out my presentation here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ftnrckAPsB_qFt3Uib3Oyk3mgzXMzl54/view?usp=drivesdk

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Juan José Piedrahita & Tomás Benavides 4C

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Juan José Piedrahita & Tomás Benavides 4C

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AN INDOOR FARM! We had the opportunity to be inside an indoor farm, a machine that costs US$1 million! And we found out that vegetables grow faster in indoor farms and there is less than 3% waste so farmers can sell more produce.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_Z7gdRvk9rBK8KKdwiXeENwXT-jRfd2f/view?usp=drivesdk

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We need to reduce our carbon footprint because any action that we make generates carbon emissions and we need to be conscious about it.

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This is my home veggie garden.

I also visited a local market
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uPouVwq0GpdhYGcFF6mmuCs1RuuVIRiD/view?usp=drivesdk