Touch the Soil News #1651 (Feature Photo – Soil Born Farms Produce – courtesy of Soil Born Farms) ABC 10 News brings the story of Soil Born Farms in Sacramento, California. The farm grows food for the community and teaches the community to grow food. Soil Born Farms is also part of a longer-term trend…
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Caring for Others – How About Cheesemakers’ Survival?
Touch the Soil News #1649 (Feature Photo – Cheese – CCA SA 4.0 International, Franck Schulenburg) Called the Great Cheese Emergency, small artisanal cheese companies who relied heavily on restaurants to sell their product have been sent into an economic tailspin. Called the Great Cheese Emergency, warehouses are piling up with artisanal cheeses that cannot…
Vertical Farming – An In-Depth Review
Touch the Soil News #1648 (Feature Photo – Vertical Farming – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Valcenteu) Global AgInvesting brings us an in-depth analysis of vertical farming – its impact on feeding the world, concerns about costs and a host of other key issues. Issues that need to be faced by people wanting to enter the…
Covid – Synonymous with Quadrupling Hunger in Latin America
Touch the Soil News #1647 (Feature Photo – Latin America – By Heraldry – Own work,, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7185231) Latin America, a continent of 20 nations and 642 million people, is being economically disrupted. Global Food Security Officials are warning of dramatic increases in hunger and a lack of access to adequate nutrition. Protests…
Did Covid Shutdowns Fail to Consider More Dire Consequences?
Touch the Soil News #1646 (Feature Photo – Picking Strawberries – CCA SA 4.0 International, Marc Lautenbacher) Whether its farmers dumping milk and fresh produce, leaving produce in the field due to labor shortages or larger kinks in the food supply chain, the stories all lead to the same conclusion – escalating risks of hunger…
Farmers Suppling Restaurants – Taking Dramatic Steps to Regroup
Touch the Soil News #1645 (Feature Photo – Closed Restaurant – CCA SA 4.0 International) Agritecture News portal brings us an interesting story of three farmers woke up one day to lose almost all their restaurant customer base. Interestingly the three farms highlighted in the story all took dramatic action to adjust and survive. You…
Global Supply Chain Kinks – Fueling Local Food Sourcing
Touch the Soil News #1644 (Feature Photo – CSA Food Basket – CCA SA 2.0 Generic) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings is the story of increasing interest in sourcing food locally. The upshot is that focus on food security – via sourcing foods more locally – may be here to stay. You can watch the video…
Hunger – The Growing Signature of Economic Shutdowns
Touch the Soil News #1643 (Feature Photo – Nairobi, Kenya – CCA SA 3.0 Unported) RUAF International brings us news from Nairobi, Kenya – an African city of 4.3 million people whose food supply chains were compromised from virus economic shutdowns. Amid chaos, food gardening is looking more like the answer to a sustainable future.…
City-Sponsored Healthy Food Farming to Boost Urban Health
Touch the Soil News #1642 (Feature Photo – Jersey City – CCA 2.0 Generic, massmatt) Jersey City, New Jersey is embarking on a city-sponsored food production plan in which the food produced is free. This city of 262,000 people will establish 10 different farming sites throughout the city. The goal is to reshape the diets…