‘Eat local’ Day! (The Irish day)

The Green Team with locally grown fruit and vegetables.

The Green Team with locally grown fruit and vegetables.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our Belgian friends in Overijse suggested that we join them in celebrating International Eat Local Day on Wednesday 16th October and we were delighted to take part.

It was all about reducing food miles and our carbon footprint, eating locally grown fruit and vegetables and produce in season.

The food we buy in the supermarket often travels a lot of miles/kilometers to get to the shelves so by eating local food, we can help to reduce the CO2 produced during transport and in doing so help the environment.

We had beetroot, scallions, carrots, potatoes and leeks from the School vegetable garden.

The Happy Pear, our local organic fruit and veg shop, donated fruit and vegetables that were grown locally in County Wicklow – strawberries, tomatoes, chillies, apples, cooking apples and pears.

Supervalu, our local Irish supermarket, donated Irish-grown potatoes, courgettes, butternut squash and kale.

We compared the food miles, packaging, transport and energy used to get a banana from Costa Rica versus beetroot from our school garden, apples from Delgany (3km away) and a butternut squash from Ireland.

We look forward to seeing how the School in Overijse got on with their day.

A big thank you to the Happy Pear and Supervalu for all their help.

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