Touch the Soil News #1580 (Feature photo – Kimbal Musk – CCA SA 4.0 International, 1000X2020) CNN News brings us the latest on Kimbal Musk’s efforts to develop and create vertical indoor farms around the world. You can read the full story here: https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/28/business/musk-vertical-farm/index.html
Touch the Soil News #1579 (Feature photo – WheatGrass – CCA SA 3.0 Unported) This story comes from news portal The Better India. It is about a man who quit his professional job to raise super-foods that combat cancer and then helps people grow their own superfood. You can read the full story here: https://www.thebetterindia.com/218030/punjab-man-earns-lakhs-organic-vegetables-superfood-microgreens-terrace-garden-tip-gop94/
Touch the Soil News #1578 (Feature photo – Children of South Sudan Before the Current Crisis – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Masiya) According to the latest news, the current coronavirus outbreak started in December 2019. So that means its about 90 days into its crisis. Estimates are that some 3,000 people have died so far…
Touch the Soil News #1577 (Feature photo – Urban Agriculture in Cuba – By Marcel601 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22740302) City Farmer News draws our attention to the importance of urban agriculture in Cuba. Cuba is striving to reduce its reliance on foreign food imports – totaling $1.6 billion a year. You can…
Touch the Soil News #1576 (Feature photo – Restaurant – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Raphael Concorde) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us the story of how the best restaurants go beyond taste and opinion but to all the things that happen behind the scenes – sourcing, preparing, business practices and employees. You can watch the report…
Touch the Soil News #1575 (Feature photo – Mudchute Park & Farm – By Ewan Munro from London, UK – Mudchute Park and Farm, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, E14Uploaded by Oxyman, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22371279) The Resident News journalist Kat Hopps, tells us about the most popular urban farms in London. Mind you, London…
Touch the Soil News #1574 (Feature photo – Romaine Lettuce – CCA SA 3.0 Unported) When asset managers team up with pension funds, the sky is the limit. Recently one of the largest farm sales took place in Western Australia. A 54,812 acre farm was purchased for $97.62 million by Daybreak cropping. Daybreak cropping is…
Touch the Soil News #1573 (Feature photo – Pastured Pigs – CCA SA 4.0 International, Walter Jeffries) It is hard for sustainable animal farmers to compete with industrial meat. Over the years, Niman Ranch has worked to co-ordinate the distribution of hundreds of growers under one distribution and marketing banner – Niman Ranch. So, if…
Touch the Soil News #1572 (Feature photo – Tinia Pina of Re-Nuble – courtesy of Re-Nuble) Yale Climate Connections brings us the story of Tinia Pina and her effort at recycling food waste for a better world and better economics. Tinia Pina is the CEO of Re-Nuble, a company the converts food waste into organic…
Positive Future #703 (Feature photo – Micro-Grid Power over a Parking Lot – Public Domain) The Food and Agriculture Organization is reporting on a major outbreak of desert locusts. They are ravaging crops of some of the poorest nations in Africa. This year’s outbreak is one of the worst in decades as millions of acres…
