Touch the Soil News #1511 (Feature photo – Floating Dairy Farm – courtesy of Floating Dairy) CBC News brings us the story of the first operational floating dairy farm. Located in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, this 32-cow farm sits alongside one of the largest metropolitan areas in Europe. With land prices too high, a floating…
Touch the Soil News #1510 (Feature photo – Broccoli Harvest – Public Domain, Benjamin Gisin) The University of Illinois just published the most comprehensive food supply chain map ever produced for the United States. Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us one of the most interesting stories about food security in modern times:
Touch the Soil News #1509 (Feature photo – Food Bowl – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic, Abex) CNN News brings us an interesting story of a vertical farm with artificial lights in a 2,000 foot long tunnel. Called NextOn, the vertical farm raises salads, leafy greens and strawberries. You can read the full story…
Touch the Soil News #1508 (Feature photo – Hemp – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Austria, D-Kuru) Hemp News journalist A.J. Herrington looks into the future of hemp. The article reviews a survey sent to 10,000 hemp growers in 18 states. The survey suggests that supply chain issues must improve, but the long-term outlook is…
Touch the Soil News #1507 (Feature photo – Keelham Farm Shop, courtesy of Keelham Farm Shop) The Keelham Farm Shop in the United Kingdom has been getting international attention. Being in the grocery business is tough and being a 1-store operation is even tougher. Yet, the Keelham Farm Shop is a resounding success. You can…
Touch the Soil News #1506 (Feature photo – Commercial Kitchen – Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication, Raysonho) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us the story of ghost kitchens and ghost supermarkets. Ghost kitchens are a remote-location food kitchen built solely for preparing food to be delivered – no customers here. You can see…
Touch the Soil News #1505 (Feature photo – Gotham Greens – courtesy of Gotham Greens) FoodBev media brings us the news of Gotham Greens’ expansion into urban agriculture and controlled environment farming. Gotham Greens just opened up its 7th indoor greenhouse (100,000 square feet) in Rhode Island. This brings the company’s operations to about 500,000…
Touch the Soil News #1504 (Feature photo – Solar Weeding Robot – courtesy of ecoRobotix https://www.ecorobotix.com/en/) Swiss tech company ecoRobotix has developed a weed-eating platform that discovers weeds and sprays only the weed. This can reduce herbicide use by 20-fold. You can read the full story here: https://houseofswitzerland.org/swissstories/science-education/swiss-start-ups-forefront-green-tech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I5u24A1j7I
Touch the Soil News #1503 (Feature photo – Lab-Grown Meat – Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported, The Meat Revolution Mark Post.webm ) Global AgInvesting brings us the story of how another start-up in the lab-grown meat sector has garnered $10 million in seed funding. The company called Meatable is from Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The…
Touch the Soil News #1502 (Feature photo – Satellite Picture of Bangkok, Thailand – Public Domain, Leon Brooks) Thomason Reuters Foundation News brings is the story of Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. The university can now boast over how it has Asia’s largest rooftop garden – 75,000 square feet. Established in 1934, the university has…
