Touch the Soil News #1737 (Feature Photo Satellite photo of the Sahara Desert – NASA, Public Domain) The African Great Green Wall is intended to span across the continent to contain the spreading desertification along the border of the Sahara Desert. The goal of the project is to restore 250 million acres along the southern…
Touch the Soil News #1736 (Feature Photo – Quezon City, Philippines – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Patrickroque01) The Philippines is a small island nation with at population of 107 million people – one third that of the United States. However, their nation is very small. The land area of the Philippines is just a little…
Touch the Soil News #1735 (Feature Photo – Gardening – Public Domain) The Charleston City Paper brings us the story of horticultural therapy. The Medical University of South Carolina has an urban farm where it provides therapy services. You can read the story here: https://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/story/horticultural-therapy-growing-into-a-key-program-at-musc-urban-farm
Touch the Soil News #1734 (Feature Photo – Nordic Harvest Vertical Farm – Courtesy of Nordic Harvest https://www.nordicharvest.com/saadangoervi/vertikalfarm) Called Nordic Harvest, the company is putting the finishing touches on a 14-story building with a footprint of over 75,000 square feet (1.75 acres). The facility is projected to produce over 1,000 tons of greens every year…
Touch the Soil News #1731 (Feature Photo – Abu Dhabi Skyline – CCA SA 4.0 International) The capital city of the UAE – Abu Dhabi – has gotten serious about food security. Having to import 90 percent of its food, the city has undertaken one of the most robust efforts to bring agricultural technology and…
Touch the Soil News #1733 (Feature Photo – Agricultural Robot – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Amazone GmbH & Co. KG) Agritech Tomorrow brings us news about the coming age of agricultural robots. Predicted to reach a market of $11 billion, robotics is delivering fruit picking machines and drones to dominate future farms. You can read…
Touch the Soil News #1732 (Feature Photo – Soil Profile – By US Department of Agriculture – https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/soils/edu/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1343062) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is taking sustainable farming to new levels. To a large degree, sustainable farming is about soils. To support sustainable education the FAO provides timely…
Touch the Soil News #1730 (Feature Photo – Industrial Food – By TUBS – Own work CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16493789) Shine news portal of China brings us a video of how urban local food is transforming lives in China. You can click on the following link to get to the news page and the video. Of…
Touch the Soil News #1729 (Feature Photo – Industrial Food – CCA SA 4.0 International) Khaleej Times journalist Karen Ann Monsy brings us the story of Canadian landscape architect Phil Dunn in Dubai. Dunn has taken on the challenge of eating for a whole year only from local resources integrated into the Sustainable City in…
Touch the Soil News #1728 (Feature Photo – Buddha in Shandong Province – CCA SA 3.0 Unported) Shine News brings us the story of a farming paradise that is being co-ordinated over roughly 15 acres of farmland, mountains and water. The project blends agriculture, tourism and more. The project, located in Shandong province, will be…
