I just got home from watching NO IMPACT MAN, a documentary about a writer and his family in New York who decides to reduce his carbon footprint to ZERO. He buys local food and eventually lives without electricity. His family's diet is quiet bland because he has to depend on seasonal produce. He does start gardening with a mentor in a community garden but he didn't rely much on his own produce for his meals. I think he was primarily being taught how to garden on the mentor's plot so he perhaps did not take the veggies home. I digress. The point is that, if he did know how to garden or had a more elaborate set up to garden in his apartment or elsewhere, the transition to reducing his carbon footprint would have been easier. His wife complained that giving up the car and everything else was not as difficult as changing her diet because she could eat 'yummy' food. They might have been happier if they were growing what they wanted, rather than consuming a bland diet of potatoes and apples in the fall.

In short, if we have the skills to garden we can have yummy diets AND reduce our carbon footprint. It's win win!