In this activity, students will read The Vegetables We Eat by Gail Gibbons. Students will then track the food miles (distance from farm to plate) of many of the fruits and vegetables they eat. The goal of this lesson is to inform students of the benefits of eating self-grown or locally produced fruits and vegetables.

 

 

Food Miles Calculator — Food miles are a way of attempting to measure how far food has traveled before it reaches you, the consumer. It is a good way of looking at the environmental impact of foods and their ingredients.