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.
$32.00–$200.00
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Touch the Soil News #590 (feature photo CC. SA. 3.0) Roughly half of all American food dollars ($780 billion) are spent eating out – mostly in restaurants. The restaurant industry employs 14.5 million people, almost 10 percent of the nation’s workforce. So while economists and government bean counters tell us the economy is going great guns and things have improved, you would think that would show up in the restaurant industry. However it is not and some restaurant economists now question the official consensus that the economy is improving. The Nation’s Restaurant News (www.nrn.com) recently reported that 2017 doesn’t look so hot for the restaurant industry. Following are some of…
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Touch the Soil News #589 (feature photo – Carlos Delgado CC-BY-SA) We are doing a News piece here that also includes an endorsement for Kelp4Less products. But before we go there, there have been a number of mega-trends that we noticed in 2016. Trends that suggest the economy may have improved for some, but the economics of the larger portion of the American citizenry is going sideways or retreating. Most everyone out there is having “economic” jitters. If not for themselves, then for friends or someone in their extended family. Growing food is becoming a necessity much like it was for the Americans of 80 years ago. Trend #1…
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Touch the Soil News #588 Over the last decade, economists have been warning about farm operators getting older. Today, about 1/3 of farm owners are over 65. A greater issue than the age of the farmer is the cost of farming and farm assets. Mainstream agriculture is so capital intensive that $1 million doesn’t mean much these days. Due to the aging farm operator population, the USDA just announced that they expect 10 percent of all farmland to change hands over the next five years. Total U.S. farmland stands at around 900 million acres. That means 90 million acres are set to change hands. Good cropland can sell for $10,000…
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Touch the Soil News #587 Twenty years ago, urban sourced food was not a threat to Wall Street, organized capital or industrial food models. For all practical purposes, food was the domain of big farms and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The past few years have seen tremendous consolidation among grocery chains, farm chemical companies, food manufacturers and ever larger confinement animal feeding operations. Underneath, Wall Street news is packed with industry consolidations and stockholder triumphs over labor when it comes to access to company profits. So while it looks like Wall Street is thriving, there are definite counter-currents that are attracting the passions of people. Worthy of note are…
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Touch the Soil News #586 (feature photo – Phil Catterall CC 2.0) The consolidation in the agricultural industry just keeps on going. This is illustrated in virtually all farm-raised foods, including eggs. Not that you are going to jump out and start raising chickens in your backyard – which by the way is gaining popularity in the U.S. Twenty years ago, 99 percent of all eggs produced came from around 350 different farms. Today, 99 percent of all eggs produced come from only 192 farms. There is little question today that the national egg supply can be at risk to Avian Influenza outbreaks (see news piece #581 – Got Eggs?).…
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Touch the Soil News #585 Starting a trek towards better eating is not easy. The USDA, however, has created a website that helps everyone get started. There is information about dietary needs for different age groups and gender. The site opens up with an overview of the five (5) major food groups and then lets you explore them. It’s a great way to start filling your plates with better and healthier foods. The website address is: https://www.choosemyplate.gov/ Following is a brief video overview of the information and resources available: Want More? – Sign up below Special Deals Ahead…Sign up!
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Touch the Soil News #584 (Feature photo courtesy of Bonton Farms) The historic Bonton neighborhood of Dallas, Texas is not a pretty place. To get to the closest grocery store is a 3-hour trip by bus. Bonton typifies everything that could be called an economic black hole. Most of the residents are plagued by high rates of degenerative diseases. No health and welfare programs, no economic recovery and no education have stemmed the tide of this neighborhood falling to its lowest ebb. There was no hope until a couple of years ago when the 1.1 acre Bonton Farms was born in the midst of this hopeless place. An outsider –…
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Touch the Soil News #583 This is a disconcerting thought at best. But are there any indicators that the scope of agriculture is overwhelming the eco-systems that sustain the world? In order to keep up with global demand for just cooking oil, tens of thousands of acres of a shrinking area of forests are being further deforested for palm oil every year. Repurposing land into farmland is the driving cause of global deforestation – a primary source of oxygen and biodiversity. Last week in Cancun, Mexico, representatives of 167 nations (195 total nations in the world) met to discuss, among other things, agriculture’s consumption (destroying) of global biodiversity. In short,…
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Touch the Soil News #582 Recently, the USDA gave approval to Del Monte to go ahead with the commercial cultivation of pink pineapples. The new pineapple has been genetically engineered to produce lower levels of the enzymes already in conventional pineapple that convert the pink pigment lycopene to the yellow pigment beta carotene. Lycopene is the pigment that makes tomatoes red and watermelons pink. The new pineapple will be raised in Costa Rica. Del Monte will label it as an “extra sweet pink flesh pineapple.” The FDA, during its review of the pink pineapple, said that there are no unresolved safety or regulatory questions about the pink pineapple. What do…
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