Molasses Powder
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Molasses provides your plants with a natural sources of carbohydrates (sugars) and plant nutrients. Great for use in indoor or outdoor environments. Use in soil or hydroponics in conjunction with any other nutrients or fertilizers.
$24.00 – $150.00
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Touch the Soil News #852 (Feature photo – Algae Dome – by Niklas Adrian Vindelev, courtesy of Space 10) Algae, known popularly from the super food Spirulina, is working its way into new inventions such as the Algae Dome. Recently featured at the Chart Art Fair in Copenhagen (Capitol city of Denmark), the Algae Dome is considered a bioreactor. The Algae Dome is being put forth as a solution to feed the world. Following are some of the highlights: The Algae Dome is about 13 feet high and has about 1,050 feet of coiled tubing through which green microalgae flows. Over the course of three days, the Algae Dome produced…
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Touch the Soil News #851 (Feature photo – Nile River flows through Cairo, Egypt – public domain by Radusandei) In the U.S., most of the water from its rivers belongs to the U.S. However, in a global economy, what happens to waters elsewhere has direct impact on the U.S. A shortage of water for crops elsewhere brings food hungry nations to the U.S. borders looking for food produced by U.S. waters. Across the world to Africa, waters from the largest river – the Nile – is shared by 11 nations, the two largest being Sudan and Egypt. Sudan just happens to have one of the largest remaining “treasures of unused…
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Touch the Soil News #850 (Feature photo – CCA SA 3.0 Unported) Knowing where our food comes – essentially from farm to fork – is not easy. It is part of the reason there has been a disconnect between people and their trust of the food system. This distrust is heightened by the number of food recalls, foreign material in food, food fraud and foodborne illnesses. Gathering data about the sourcing and trails where food travels has become the focus of a company called FoodLogiQ. The company’s customers are big food companies that face recalls and all the challenges of trying to trace back where the problem started. FoodLogiQ boasts…
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Touch the Soil News #849 (Feature photo – courtesy of Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture) While the movement is decades old, trying to re-visualize what healthy food grown locally looks is capturing the passion of young people. An unusual video has been put together by “Feast TV” in which the stories and economics of urban farming are captured. It is interesting how much activity there is in the urban food arena by non-profits. Featured in the documentary are three enterprises: Urbavore Urban Farm. Founded in 2011, farmers Brooke Salvaggio and Daniel Heryer have created a bio-diverse oasis in Kansas City, Missouri. Their 13.5 acre farm is also their homestead.…
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Touch the Soil News #849 (Feature photo – Hyperspectral Imaging – NASA photo) Ever heard of Ceres Imaging? Probably not. This small company has developed and improved aerial spectral imagery. Through the use of fixed wing aircraft, specialized cameras scan over agricultural fields. The equipment is so sensitive it picks up stresses in plants due to water or lack of nutrients before even a trained expert can find it on the ground. The images reveal highly accurate real-time information of the water and nutrient status of every plant in a field. Located in Oakland, California, the company offers the following services: Translating canopy temperatures into a water stress metric. Determine…
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Touch the Soil News #848 (Feature photo – Bernie Sanders (left) with Rafael Espinal – photo courtesy of Rafeal Espinal) The New York City Council is considering a bill – proposed by Rafael Espinal – to develop a comprehensive urban agriculture plan. Wow, a city of 8.5 million people where there is an average of one person every 1,000 square feet. While it sounds quite far out, the point is that there is a lot of sentiment that the industrial food system has too many problems to fix. People have to fix it from the ground up. In specifics, the law proposed by Rafael Espinal seeks to establish a comprehensive…
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Touch the Soil News #847 (Feature photo – courtesy of Braddock Farms and Superior Motors) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has an unusual restaurant – it’s called Superior Motors. Chef Kevin Sousa, with the support of over 2,000 dedicated supporters, raised over $300,000 to build the restaurant. It’s called Superior Motors as the restaurant was a renovation of the defunct Superior Motors car dealership. Bucking the trend when it comes to the formation of capital and starting a new business, Superior Motors Restaurant is not finished. The Restaurant is now in the process of developing a greenhouse on its roof and a 4,000 square foot raised-bed farm on its grounds. It is the…
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Touch the Soil News #846 (Feature photo – public domain – Dungodung) One of the places to get a “heads up” on new technology is to follow the money trail. Where are investors investing in food technology? Over the past few years, there have been numerous investment funds established with a singular purpose – invest in and advance food technology. One of these investment company’s “ACRE” invests and leads investments primarily in the arena of food and farming solutions. ACRE is an agrifood tech venture fund backed by Campbells Soup. Recently ACRE led a $1.3 million dollar startup investment into a company called ImpactVision. ImpactVision has been developing a technology…
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Touch the Soil News #845 (Feature photo – courtesy of Homeland) While it sounds like a sweeping topic, the future of food is being defined by a number of activities that have been around for decades. Dozens of organizations and governments have and continue to document the encroachment of these activities as we move through time. Here are the activities that continually surface and for which there is debate, but not on the larger international scale that it should be. 1) The growth of humanity began thousands of years ago near the most fertile lands and abundant water resources. 2) Rather than protect these resources, the economic plan was…
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