Touch the Soil News #1883 (Feature Photo – Micro Greens – CCA SA 4.0 International – idealities) Curtis Stone takes us on another journey to an innovative entrepreneur that makes $1,200 a week out of a 240 square foot room. You can see the full story in the video link below:
Touch the Soil News #1882 (Feature Photo – Plenty Indoor Ag – Photo courtesy of Plenty Ag) AgFunder News brings a story that boggles the imagination. Realty Income, a commercial real estate trust, has agreed to invest $1 billion towards the development of indoor farming space. The kicker is that it is all for one…
Touch the Soil News #1881 (Feature Photo – Futura Gaia – Photo courtesy Futura Gaia) EU Startups News brings the story of another innovating agricultural business model called Futura Gaia from France. The company designs and markets ready-to-use vertical farms that offer soil-based automation. The new invention is called “rotating geoponics” for indoor plant production.…
Touch the Soil News #1880 (Feature Photo – Black Soldier Fly Larvae – Public Domain) Building a protein production business based upon insects is what inspired entrepreneur Pat Crowley. Facing headwinds as to supplies and markets for an emerging industry, Pat is hanging in there and it’s an interesting story. AgFunder news interviews Pat Crowley…
Touch the Soil News #1879 (Feature Photo – Addie’s Grocery – Photo courtesy of Addie’s Grocery) The President of the nation of the Philippines, in concert with their Department of Agriculture and Department of Interior & Local Government have stepped up to the plate to make urban agriculture a national priority. When it comes to…
Touch the Soil News #1878 (Feature Photo – Sheep – Public Domain USDA) City Farmer News brings us the story about grazing sheep in urban settings – Its calming. The University of California, Davis – is known for its College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. The College has a small band of sheep – 25…
Touch the Soil News #1877 (Feature Photo – Strawberries – CCA SA 3.0 unported, Pramod Kumra) If you have the best tasting fruit, you can sell it for a high price. That’s the story of Oishii indoor farm specializing in the sweetest tasting strawberries in the world. Now the company is launching a second variety…
Touch the Soil News #1876 (Feature Photo – Atlantic salmon – CCA SA 2.5 Generic) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) Fish Site news bring us the story of a major development in Saudi Arabia with a company called Pure Salmon. Growing salmon in a controlled environment on land at this size is worth noting. Ultimately, Pure Salmon plans to…
Touch the Soil News #1875 (Feature Photo – Eastie Greenhouse – Photo courtesy of Eastie Farms) The Christian Science Monitor brings us a story that has many elements of a different economy. Cooperative, close to home, sensitive to price and access. While on the surface it appears like a feel-good story, there is perhaps more…
Touch the Soil News #1874 (Feature Photo – Rio de Janeiro – CCA SA 3.0 Unported) The City of Rio de Janeiro, the center of a metro area of 12.5 million people is establishing the world’s largest Urban Garden. Interesting it is not a community garden. It is a city managed project of 27 acres…
