Touch the Soil News #1998 (photo – Farming in Pakistan – (CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Ziegler 175) From the other side of the world, Arab News brings the story of the Nation of Pakistan. Short of development capital to bring farmland into production, Pakistan is seeking four international partners – Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates,…
Touch the Soil News #1997 (photo – United Nations Food Garden (CCA SA 2.0 Generic, United Nations / John Gillespie) DW News Portal offers a video on the Green Business College that teaches folks, for a modest fee, how to grow, preserve and prepare fresh foods. This is certainly not the first of its kind…
Touch the Soil News #1996 ( photo – Healthy Harvest Food Bank – (photo courtesy of Healthy Harvest Food Bank and Food Bank News) Foodbank News brings the story of Healthy Harvest Food Bank in Warsaw, Virginia. The Food Bank is just about to open a 15,000 square foot aquaponics center that includes a 2,000…
Touch the Soil News #1995 ( photo – Seawater Reverse Osmosis plant in Barcelona – (CCA SA 3.0, James Grellier) Water desalination technology and build out has become an arena the U.S. is nibbling on, but not taking a lead. Yet, access to fresh water is becoming more of an issue each year. It would…
Touch the Soil News #1993 (photo – The Great Seal of Santa Clara County – (Public Domain) Hoodline News portal brings us the story an affordable housing complex that comes with a small farm. The housing complex is as novel as is the farm. Born out of a public coming together in Santa Clara County,…
Touch the Soil News #1994 (photo – Combine unloading into Grain Cart (CCA SA 3.0, Michael Gabler) For most folks, if harvesting with combine makes strides in efficiency, the response is probably so what. However, most of what we eat came through a combine whose productivity was hauled off the field with a grain cart. …
Touch the Soil News #1992 (photo – Growing Tomato Plants – (Jolly Janner – Public Domain) CBS News of New York brings the story of schools in New York City that are bringing urban farming curriculums, with physical labs, to sixty schools. New York Sun Works, the non-profit responsible for building out the urban farming…
Touch the Soil News #1991 – Forests – (Malene Thyssen – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Malene) The Times of India recently put out an interesting story. It’s about an emerging trend where hospitals are beginning to grow their own organic vegetables for patients and staff. The story comes from the city of Kochi with a population of 700,000 within…
Touch the Soil News #1990 – National Organic Program – (courtesy of USDA, Public Domain) – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Malene) Agritecture news portal covers the ongoing debates of certifying your crops, be that organics, non- GMO or other certifications now being offered. The upshot of the article is that consumers do pay attention to third-party verifications on what…
Touch the Soil News #1989 – Forests – (Malene Thyssen – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Malene) Agriculture and Forestry are growing their services of carbon sequestration to large carbon emitters. Selling carbon offsets is becoming big business as the Nation of Zambia plans carbon offset ventures that will cover 5 percent of the nation’s land mass. The goal is…
