Touch the Soil News #1750 (Feature Photo – Farm Crops – Public Domain) Farmlandgrab news portal brings us the story of America’s largest owner of farmland. The farmland number is 242,000 acres. That would be a farm that is 10 miles wide and almost 40 miles long. So who would it be? None other…
Touch the Soil News #1749 (Feature Photo – Rabbit’s Garden – Courtesy of Rabbit’s Garden) Staten Island Urby apartments have an unusual feature – and on-site urban farm. While the apartments are pricey – studio apartments as high as $2,677 per month – being next to nature and food is a valuable benefit. Brightvibes…
Touch the Soil News #1748 (Feature Photo – Food Plate – Public Domain) Given the times, interest in food security has taken on greater importance at the local and national levels. No where is this more true than in Singapore, an island nation that speaks English and must import 90 percent of its food.…
Touch the Soil News #1747 (Feature Photo – Food Garden – Public Domain, Symi81)) Given the times, interest in home gardening is not a surprise. However, it has spurned a project called the Million Gardens Movement. Organized by Frank Giustra and Kimbal Musk. It is a non-profit helping to bootstrap 1 million more food…
Touch the Soil News #1746 (Feature Photo – India – GNU Free Doc License) Brightvibes news portal links us to an interesting story of a school immersed in nature and trees. The design was the winning entry for a competition to design a new educational facility for the city of Pune in western India.…
Touch the Soil News #1745 (Feature Photo – Eggplant – CCA SA3.0 Unported, Joydeep) The Sun Daily of Malaysia, brings an interesting story. The Malaysian Ministry of Agriculture is organizing an urban farming program (financed by the government) to help thousands of households cut living costs. The plan is to help thousands of households…
Touch the Soil News #1744 (Feature Photo – The World – Public Domain) The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently reported the latest Food Price Index for February 2021. Over the past 9 months, global food prices have risen 27.5 percent. This spike is unprecedented since the FAO started reporting changes back in 2003.…
Touch the Soil News #1743 (Feature Photo – School Lunches – CCA 2.0 Generic, FrontierOfficial) The Daily Telegraph reveals what never should have happened. Close schools and starve children. At the forefront of trying to solve – and bring recognition to this problem – is the World Food Programme. You can read the story here:…
Touch the Soil News #1741 (Feature Photo – Women Smiles Uganda – courtesy of https://womensmilesuganda.org/ When Ugandan women get together to grow food for survival, are they re-inventing the food chain? You can read the story below and then ask the questions: Do social non-profits provide a better economic model that unfettered competition? https://www.howwemadeitinafrica.com/vertical-farming-ugandan-company-develops-solution-for-urban-agriculture/91900/
Touch the Soil News #1740 (Feature Photo – corn – public domain USDA) China got the world’s attention this week as it purchased 3.72 million tonnes of corn from the U.S. this week. That would take roughly 850,000 acres of farmland to produce – a farm that is 10 miles wide and 135 miles long.…
