Touch the Soil News #1501 (Feature photo – 1928 FFA Stamp – Public Domain) The National FFA organization was organize in 1928 under a congressional charter. The roots of FFA come from the family farms that proliferated in the United States almost 100 years ago and crested in 1954 with some 7 million farms nationwide.…
Touch the Soil News #1500 (Feature photo – MIT Simmons Hall Showing the greenspaces students are eyeing for change – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, Daderot) Students at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) are wanting to help create a greener and more sustainable world by creating gardens on the campus grounds. The most recent…
Touch the Soil News #1499 (Feature photo – Vertical Farming – By Valcenteu – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9387472) GreenBiz journalist Jean Haggerty brings us news about the growth and acceptance of vertical farming. Vertical farming is often synonymous with hydroponics and controlled indoor environment agriculture. Vertical farming is also closely associated with urban…
Touch the Soil News #1498 (Feature photo – Babylon Micro-Farm – Courtesy of Babylon Microfarms) Babylon Microfarms from Charlottesville, Virginia provides a venue for becoming more food independent. The provide a high-tech growing vertical hydroponic machine, heirloom seeds, supplies, growing directions and they monitor your hydroponic machine for you. Called “Guided Growing”, you can learn…
Touch the Soil News #1497 (Feature photo – Foodora Delivery Worker – By Tiia Monto, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62513540) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us news about changes in the food delivery landscape. Food delivery workers in Norway and Japan have succeeded in organizing the first food-delivery unions. Are they going to come to the U.S.?…
Touch the Soil News #1496 (Feature photo – Swansea City – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license, Numero007) BBC News brings us the story of Swansea city, in the nation of Wales (U.K.). Swansea is looking at a mixed-use building (commercial and residential) to incorporate food producing assets in every apartment and in the…
Touch the Soil News #1495 (Feature photo – Cuban Urban Agriculture – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license, Susanne Bollinger) Climate News Network explores the urban farming culture of Cuba. Cuba has been known for its resiliency when it came to create a food secure nation 30 years ago. You can read the full…
Touch the Soil News #1494 (Feature photo – Surface of Mars – Public Domain, NASA) IN Future news portal bring us the story of how the UAE (United Arab Emirates) is spending money today to fund scientists along the paths of closed environment living and farming. Their premise is that when we go into space,…
Touch the Soil News #1493 (Feature photo – Seattle Urban Farm Rooftop Garden – courtesy of Seattle Urban Farm) The Seattle Times brings us the story of the Seattle Urban Farm Company. The company grows special-order crops on rooftops for restaurants. The company also provides growing information for households at their website: https://www.seattleurbanfarmco.com/ You can…
Touch the Soil News #1492 (Feature photo – One of the World’s Largest Feedlots – Public Domain) FoodMarket News brings us an interesting story about global food security. At the heart of the story is a new question: Would your country sell its food overseas at the risk of overpricing it at home? With China…
