WFG Points

Growing food at home conserves energy and reduces greenhouse gases. The average meal in the United States travels 1500 miles before reaching its destination- that is a lot of gas used and carbon emitted! It is said that if every person in the US ate just one local meal per week we could save 1.5 billion barrels of oil.

We have devised a point system at World Food Garden to help keep track of the power of small choices. Its a way of you to keep track of how many food gardens in this world your participation has helped start.

It goes like this:
1 point is given for every diet whose produce consumption comes 100% from a home-grown garden. Percentages are added together, so if one family of 5 is getting 30% of their produce from the home garden, then there are 1.5 points that are created. Each person with a carrot on the map that is in any way related to that garden gets a point.You get that point if you were involved in making that garden in any fashion- you may grow the garden yourself, you may have sent seeds to start the garden or you may have connected the person with seeds by travel or sponsorship. Your contributions to the global garden network will grow points like, well, will grow points like weeds but more important the benefits in reduced greenhouse gases and consumption of oil.