Texas A&M University – Locating Agriculture in the City

Touch the Soil News #1569 (Feature photo – Texas A&M AgriLife Center – CCA SA 4.0 International, Patrick Creighton) Texas A&M University is one of the nation’s largest universities with almost 70,000 students. It is known the world over as being a leader in agricultural research and innovation (https://dallas.tamu.edu/) Now, the university is researching the…

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Re-Grow Your Foods

Touch the Soil News #1567 (Feature photo – Romaine Lettuce – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Rainer Zenz) City Farmer News draws our attention to a new book that shows you how to re-grow vegetables you bought from the store from roots, cuttings and scraps. You can read ore here: http://cityfarmer.info/regrow-your-veggies-growing-vegetables-from-roots-cuttings-and-scraps/

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The Farm Appliance for Grocery Stores

Touch the Soil News #1566 (Feature photo – Babylon Farm Appliance – courtesy of Babylon) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) tells us about how food growing appliances can develop a new form of local foods – foods grown in the grocery story. While it may not apply to heavier vegetables like potatoes or carrots, leafy greens are…

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