Salad self-sufficiency
The salad you ate for lunch today may have used more fossil fuel than you did driving to work all week.
Your lettuce and garlic probably flew in from China; your asparagus may be from Brazil; the mixed leaves may have been vacuum packed in New Zealand or at least the other side of Australia. Your salad’s energy miles also included the fuel needed to grow it as well as make and transport its fertilisers, fungicides, herbicides and pesticides.
The solution? Grow your own! Salad vegies grow superbly on a balcony. The one thing you
