Touch the Soil News #1435 (Feature photo – Pork Meat – CCA SA 3.0 Unported – Rainer Zenz) China continues to struggle with supplies of pork, since the African Swine Fever has wiped out roughly one third of China’s pigs. This is no small problem as pork is the favored meat for China’s 1.4 billion…
Touch the Soil News #1434 (Feature photo – Food Forest – CCA SA 3.0 Unported – Zoey Kroll) Food forests are public places planted with fruit and nut trees and other edible plants. As a public space, people are allowed to pick the food for themselves. Ensia news portal brings us an update on the…
Touch the Soil News #1433 (Feature photo – Growing Home Farm – By Andy Collings and Growing Home Farm) While we all need to make a living, having a social enterprise still includes monies for wages and living. Growing Home Organic Farm in Chicago, Illinois provides insights in how farming can be a social enterprise…
Touch the Soil News #1432 (Feature photo – Caring for Food Plants – Public Domain) FoodTank news portal brings us an interesting list of school garden initiatives and school cafeterias. With 16 initiatives to choose and learn from around the world, local food advocates and learn how to change their communities and educational experiences. You…
Touch the Soil News #1431 (Feature photo – Cricket – CCA SA 4.0 International Didier Descouens) The use of insects for food and protein are not new, as indigenous people around the world have eaten insects for thousands of years. What is new is the confined animal feeding and farming of insects – like crickets…
Touch the Soil News #1430 (Feature photo – Micro-Farming – courtesy of Kyle Dues) Good ideas don’t have to come from big companies with lots of capital. Good ideas can come from minds that are working and thinking. Ohio State campus news “The Lantern” brings us a story of how one student is changing how…
Touch the Soil News #1429 (Feature photo – Micro-Greens – USDA Public Domain) The oldest hardware story in Washington, DC just took in two new enterprises in addition to its hardware business. One is a rooftop farm and the other is a micro-green indoor farm in a re-purposed storage space. You can read the full…
Touch the Soil News #1428 (Feature photo – New York City Seal – Public Domain) FoodTank brings us the story of New York City’s entrée into food security and access to fresh foods. Something the USDA and the retail grocery industry has been trying to do for decades. The problem is that more than 1…
Touch the Soil News #1427 (Feature photo – American Cockroach -courtesy of Zongquing Wang and Ed Baker) Cockroaches are more popular in China for food, cosmetics and medicines. In fact, China has cockroach farms with over a billion cockroaches in confined growing environments. Because cockroaches eat waste, they are environmentally supportive in dealing with food…
Touch the Soil News #1426 (Feature photo – German Allotment Garden – Public Domain) Allotment gardens are of European descent. In the past, governments often times made plots available for the citizenry to grow food. The plots were generally much larger than a community garden plot in the U.S. European allotment gardens are often large…
