Almost all the salad we eat is shipped for 1000s of miles and covered in pesticide #garden #salad
A short YouTube monologue (creator: Nicole Johnsey Burke) arguing that most salad consumed in the U.S. is grown in two concentrated regions (Salinas/Selenus Valley, CA and Yuma Valley, AZ), then harvested, washed, packaged and transported long distances to local stores where it spends weeks on shelves and in consumer refrigerators before disposal. The speaker contrasts this with the ease of growing lettuce at home (requiring little space/time/sunlight), noting each plant can yield two to three harvests and encouraging home salad gardens to reduce plastic use, fuel consumption, and food waste.
Questions this video answers
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Selenus Valley (California) and Yuma Valley (Arizona)
Up to 1500 or 2000 meters (as spoken)
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