Touch the Soil News #1839 (Feature Photo – Historical Cannery – Public Domain) Carroll County, Virginia is different when it comes to emphasizing and making the most of local food. You can bring your produce to a public cannery, prep the food for canning, get help about canning and go home with the finished…
Touch the Soil News #1838 (Feature Photo – Soldier Fly – GNU Free Doc License) Agfunder news brings us the story of a foreign company – FlyFeed. Flyfeed just got $3 million in venture capital to mass reproduce black soldier fly larvae for protein, by feeding them food waste. The first project is for…
Positive Future News #949 (Feature Photo – Food Bank Lines – USDA Public Domain) With 53 million Americans relying on food banks for a portion of their nutrition, it is no wonder that food banks are getting bigger. There are now 12 food banks in the U.S. that have revenues over $250 million a year.…
Positive Future News #948 (Feature Photo – Food Garden – CCA SA 2.0 Generic – United Nations) Challenges to accessing food are far reaching. There are things like income issues, supply chain kinks and inflation to name a few. Then, even if you have the land and water, what ae the best food crops to…
Positive Future News #947 (Feature Photo – Rwanda Farming – public domain) Rwanda, is a small African nation that is heavily populated with 13 million people. In a world where eating is a primary focus, a Rwanda college graduate with a degree in agricultural mechanization has now built up a business for small household vegetable…
Touch the Soil News #1837 (Feature Photo – Terrace Farming – CCA SA 4.) The grow-your-own movement has become global, with many governments, particularly in the Philippines, providing training and supplies to grow the trend. Things are also expanding in the U.S. According to the National Gardening Association, 1 in 3 households grow their own…
Touch the Soil News #1836 (Feature Photo – Allotment Gardens – CCA SA 4.0 International) The U.K. is known for its allotment gardens. The demand for allotment gardens has reached an all-time high. Over 48 percent of allotment gardens have more than 1,000 people on the waiting list. Some allotments have a waiting list of…
Touch the Soil News #1835 (Feature Photo – Shipping Container Farm – Freight Farms https://www.freightfarms.com/home/ So how do you set up an urban farm with no land? Simple, you grow in a shipping container converted to a high yield production facility, near a grocery store. Read about an Israeli company that did just that…
Touch the Soil News #1830 (Feature Photo – Hydropanels – Courtesy of Source Global https://www.source.co/) Creating drinking water and perhaps water for a modest attempt at food plants is a big thing – getting the attention of the world. FoodBev Media brings us the story of Source Global, that just received $130 million in venture…
Positive Future News #946 (Feature Photo – Vineyards – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Brocken Inaglory) It’s no secret that farmland is becoming a preferred venue for investment. This means investors are competing with farmers for ownership of farmland. In the reverse, investors may buy farmland in order to free up equity for the farmer for…
