Touch the Soil News #1473 (Feature photo – Fruit Tree – Public Domain) Canadian CBC News brings us the story of the city of Saskatoon. A group of college students planted 210 fruit trees along a public green trail. Called the Snack Belt, people walking by the trees can help themselves to the fruit. You…
Touch the Soil News #1472 (Feature photo – Deforestation – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, Diorit) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us news about how big companies are driving big problems – particularly as relates to climate change. You can see more of the story here:
Touch the Soil News #1471 (Feature photo – Sheep – Public Domain, USDA) The Metro news portal brings us the story of the Ancient Farming Festival in Madrid. So why would folks show up by the thousands to see thousands of sheep move through the streets of Madrid? Is that we crave some more ancestral…
Touch the Soil News #1470 (Feature photo – India on the Map – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, Aquarius.geomar.de) The India Entrepreneur brings us the story of how young professionals are leaving their jobs to become urban farmers. This story features five (5) new start-ups in this new trend. You can read the full…
Touch the Soil News #1469 (Feature photo – Omnichannel – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic, Daniel Iversen) Grocery retailers are all ganging up on Amazon as the ratchet up their on-line services backed up by immediate pickup at their brick and mortar locations. Phil Lempert https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us more of the story on this emerging…
Touch the Soil News #1468 (Feature photo – Mongolia – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, ASDFGHJ) Just the title of this story signifies how technology, driven by population growth, is changing the way we approach food. Whoever thought that high-tech greenhouses would emerge in Mongolia, a remote nation with extreme winters? You can see…
Touch the Soil News #1467 (Feature photo – Amazon Shipping – Public Domain) The largest retailer in the U.S. is Walmart with over $500 billion a year in sales. Amazon, which has been growing by 30 percent a year, could be larger than Walmart in 3 years. If both companies exceed $500 billion a…
Touch the Soil News #1466 (Feature photo – Urban Congestion – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 1.0 Generic, Koika) Global AgInvesting writers Dr. David Hughes and Miguel Flavian bring us the big picture on population and food trends. One must ask, can the financial world expand its activities to include all the population growth, or will…
Touch the Soil News #1465 (Feature photo – Millenials – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic, Paul Holloway) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) explores the arena of Millenial eating habits and preferences. One of the defining trends by Millenials is to buy food that is more health, more ecologically sustainable and more ethical. You can see the…
Touch the Soil News #1464 (Feature photo – Philippine Senator Francis Pangilinan – Attribution, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62021362) Francis Pangilinan, a Philippine Senator and lawyer, is also a home food gardener. He is pushing legislation that mandates national and local governments to use idle or abandoned government lots and buildings for growing crops, raising livestock and vertical hydroponic…
