Touch the Soil News #1520 (Feature photo – Fresh Vegetables – Public Domain, Leon Brooks) While most hotels in the world would not consider growing produce and fish on their premises, the Fairmont Hotel in Singapore has done just that. Singapore is an island city-state in Southeast Asia of almost 6 million people. It is…
Touch the Soil News #1519 (Feature photo – Agricultural Robot – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported Amazone GmbH & Co. KG) Naio Technologies of France (https://www.naio-technologies.com/en/) is pushing ahead with a variety of agricultural robots. While many of these technologies are not fully commercialized, they are taking form in ways that show promise. The Dino…
Touch the Soil News #1518 (Feature photo – Green Empire Farms Greenhouse – courtesy of Havecon-Mastronardi) Greenhouse Grower brings us news of the almost finished Green Empire Farms greenhouse facility. To be the largest in the U.S., the 2.8 million square foot greenhouse will produce berries, tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers. The greenhouse is located near…
Touch the Soil News #1516 (Feature photo – Ukrainian Farmland – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International, Vian) Farmland Grab brings us the story of Ukraine farmland and its peoples who may be overrun by foreign farmland ownership. If you lose your farm – in a nation with few economic safety nets – you are…
Touch the Soil News #1515 (Feature photo – Forest Trails Near Tsawassen – By Vranak – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25637269) The Western Producer News brings us the latest on a new agrihood – a housing development built around food and farming. Located in Tsawassen, British Columbia, the 537-acre development will include a 50-acre…
Touch the Soil News #1514 (Feature photo – Rob Greenfield – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, Sean Aranda) The Guardian brings us the story of Rob Green (https://robgreenfield.tv/). Green didn’t buy and food from a grocery store, eat at a restaurant or go to a bar. In addition, Green lives in a tiny house…
Touch the Soil News #1513 (Feature photo – Migrant Mother Has Lots of Worries – Public Domain Original photo by Dorothea Lange. Colorized by John Boero. – This image is available from the United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID fsa.8b29516.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the…
Touch the Soil News #1512 (Feature photo – A School Garden – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International, Michael Barera) Spectrum news brings us the story of School Food Gardens in Lawndale, California. Like so many other stories we have carried, it is the non-profit sector that is making the biggest difference in food education…
Positive Future #647 (Feature photo – Ebusco Buses – courtesy of Ebusco ) Dutch electric bus manufacturer Ebusco ( https://www.ebusco.com/) just delivered 60 fully electric and emission free buses to the provinces of Groningen and Drenthe in the Netherlands. It is the largest electric bus fleet in Europe. All of the buses were driven to…
Positive Future #646 (Feature photo – 3D Printed Building – Photo Courtesy of Apis Core) Apis Cor (https://www.apis-cor.com/) is the first company to specialize in equipment for 3D printing in the construction industry. Recently, their equipment was used to create the largest 3D printed building in the world in Dubai. Inhabitat journalist Nicole Jewell brings…
