Touch the Soil News #1570 (Feature photo – Finca Tres Robles in the Center of Houston, Texas – courtesy of Finca Tres Robles) Narcity News brings us the story of how a local urban farm found its way into the center of one of America’s largest cities. What makes them different is that once a…
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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…
Regenerative Agriculture to the Rescue
I Touch the Soil News #1568 (Feature photo – Cover Crops – CCA SA 4.0 International, Mr. 1032.) GreenBiz journalist Jim Giles brings us interesting insights about the potential of regenerative farming practices to absorb carbon and stabilize the climate. The largest use of land in the world is agriculture. How farming is done can…
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/
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…
World Food Programme – What it Knows
Touch the Soil News #1565 (Feature photo – WFP Relief Food – Public Domain) The World Food Programme (WFP) is an arm of the United Nations that delivers emergency food into the most dire places. Many of them are war-torn nations in which fighting has taken over in importance over the survival of the people.…
The FAO Says: Plant Trees in the City
Touch the Soil News #1562 (Feature photo – Ash Tree – CCA SA 2.0 Generic) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is the worlds largest and most comprehensive organization focused on food and health. Recently, they took up an initiative to encourage tree-planting in cities. You can watch their YouTube here:
Re-Thinking the Use of Parking Spaces
Touch the Soil News #1563 (Feature photo – Pasture Raised Pigs – By Jeff Vanuga / Photo courtesy of GreenBiz journalist John Addison brings the issue of parking spaces to the forefront. There are 270 million cars in America that are parked 90 percent of the time. Estimates are that there are 2 billion parking spaces in…
From Food Activism to Main Street Acceptance
Touch the Soil News #1561 (Feature photo – A nature strip between the sidewalk and road planted into food – courtesy of UNSW) The University of New South Wales in Australia brings us news of how planting food gardens on public nature strips has evolved from activism to mainstream. The rise in planted nature strips…
Here Is Some Good News
Touch the Soil News #1560 (Feature photo – Sunrise over Pha That Luan in Laos – CCA SA 4.0 International) We occasionally report positive news hosted by BrightVibes. With so much hype in the media that charges us up with negative energy, we thought to link you to the top good-news stories of 2020 so…