Positive Future #875 (Feature photo – Chocolate – CCA SA 3.0 Unported) Most of the cacao grown in the world, is done in West Africa and Ghana. The problem is that this production is closely associated with more than 2 million children working under slave conditions. With demand for chocolate high around the world, a…
Positive Future #874 (Feature photo – Abraham Lincoln and Master Gardener Logo, Public Domain) Back in 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrell Act, which created Land-Grant Universities. These universities were given federal lands to sell in order to raise revenue to establish themselves. The were charged with, among other things, the teaching of practical agriculture.…
Positive Future #873 (Feature photo – Leather Coats – CCA SA 4.0 International, Gaurav Khadka) While it is on the edge of agriculture, this new product replaces leather and other chemical textiles by farming with bacteria. By feeding certain bacteria a nutrient rich solution, a thick rubbery sheet is formed. AgFunder News brings us the…
Positive Future #872 (Feature photo – Soybeans and Soybean Oils – CCA 2.0 Generic, United Soybean Board) While basic food crops take top billing in our minds, you’re not quite there without vegetable oils. What would we do with lettuce greens and cooking our foods without vegetable oils? The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of…
Positive Future #871 (Feature photo – Urban Farming – CCA SA 4.0) Envisioning a national urban farm strategy, seems far a fetched, for a large nation like the United States. Where do you even start? However, for a small nation like Luxemburg – population 640,000 – in the heart of the European Union, you can…
Positive Future #870 (Feature photo – LED Grow Lights on Potatoes – NASA Public Domain) The idea is quite simple, when you are thinking about your 2022 gardening plans, add an additional row to grow produce for donation. Check with your local food bank to see if they have an acceptance program and how it…
Positive Future #869 (Feature photo – LED Grow Lights on Potatoes – NASA Public Domain) When you think of Samsung, electronics usually comes to mind. However, Samsung is focused on other kinds of electronics and technology that deal with growing food in indoor environments. Now, Samsung has launched an initiative which they call Project Plant…
Positive Future #868 (Feature photo – Grain Harvest – Courtesy of Benjamin Gisin) The World Agricultural Outlook Board (WOAB), a committee of the USDA, reports regularly on the production, consumption and ending stocks of major grains in June of each year. Reports of harvest and production issues with wheat, have the WOAB projecting a drop…
Positive Future #867 (Feature photo – Food Waste – GNU Free Doc License) Do Good Foods, currently processes 160 tones of excess or wasted food from 450 grocery stores per day or 60,000 tons a year. Global AgInvesting news reports Do Good Foods has just received $169 million in venture capital funding. The waste will…
Positive Future #866 (Feature photo – Greenhouse Farming – CCA SA 4.0 International) One of the world’s top controlled environment agriculture (CEA) consulting companies is AGRITECTURE (https://www.agritecture.com/). So, if you’re in the business or wanting to get into controlled environment agriculture (CEA) you should consider this company. They have a special page on their website…
