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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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