Touch the Soil News #1549 (Feature photo – The Agriculture Box – Courtesy of the Agriculture Box) Catering News journalist Dina Maaty brings us the story of an innovative Middle Eastern approach to local and organ food. The company called Agricultural Box (http://agriculturebox.com/our-products/) builds urban farming systems using individual wood boxes and the soils, fertilizers…
Touch the Soil News #1548 (Feature photo – Buffalo, New York School – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, D-Day) Civil Eats journalist Lisa Held brings us the story of how New York schools are working to integrate more local food in their school food programs. Buffalo, New York – the second largest school district in New…
Touch the Soil News #1547 (Feature photo – Food Delivery – By Franklin Heijnen – DSCF2049.jpg, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56726448) Phil lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us the story of how food delivery is creating algorithms as they go along the clips the earnings of drivers small bits at a time, until drivers realize they’ve been had.…
Touch the Soil News #1546 (Feature photo – Groundwork Market Garden – Courtesy of Groundwork Market Garden) Buffalo Rising news portal brings us the story of how a local food enterprise is expanding the facilities and meaning of local and organic food. The company called Groundwork Market Garden is re-inventing the use of a 60,000…
Touch the Soil News #1545 (Feature photo – Green Iglu – Courtesy of Green Iglu) Towns in northern Canada – up in the Arctic Circle – face food insecurity. Having to fly food in is expensive and most children there lack access to fresh food. Non-profit Green Iglu is helping solve that problem by building…
Touch the Soil News #1544 (Feature photo – Abu Dhabi – CCA 3.0 Unported) The Khaleej Times brings us the story of the building of the world’s largest indoor vertical farm, all under artificial LED lights. The $40 million dollar facility will be located in Abu Dhabi – one of the world’s most famous metropolitan…
Touch the Soil News #1543 (Feature photo – Panera Bread Restaurant – CCO 1.0 Universal Public Domain) News portal Investing.com created a slide show of almost 90 restaurants that are predicted to be closing branches in 2020. While it is not a precise report or complete, there are some concerning indications. Over 80 restaurant chains…
Touch the Soil News #1542 (Feature photo – Growing Tomato – CCA Sa 4.0 International) Modern Farmer journalist Linsday Campbell brings us the story of pop-up farming. Small trays – already planted with growing food – are brought to your apartment or any small outdoor space (https://farmbasedfoodie.com/). There are a variety of farm food plans…
Touch the Soil News #1541 (Feature photo – Food Aisles – CCA SA 2.0 lyzadanger) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/ ) brings us some disconcerting news about our food. To a large extent, our foods have been stacked with ingredients that make us crave them. You can see Phil’s report here:
Touch the Soil News #1540 (Feature photo – Locust Swarms – By CSIRO, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35486123) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is warning over the risks of crop devastations by locusts. Locusts pose a threat to 20 percent of the Earths land surface and 65 of the world’s poorest countries.…
