Touch the Soil News #1463 (Feature photo – Mumbai Subway – Public Domain) Mumbai, India is one of those global mega cities – with a metro area of almost 20 million people. Recently, Forbes of India reports how soil-less farming (hydroponics) enterprise Herbivore Farms is making a go in the big city. Like others, the…
Touch the Soil News #1462 (Feature photo – SM Farming Class – courtesy of SM Foundation) SunStar news portal brings us the story of urban and home food gardening in the Philippines. With a per-capita income of only $3,246, many people work hard to make ends meet. One of those tactics is to learn how…
Touch the Soil News #1461 (Feature photo – Tesco Store CCA SA2.0 Generic, Martin Bodman) Grocery Dive journalist Jeff Wells brings us news of Tesco, the third largest retailer in the world, headquartered in England. Tesco has teamed up with technology developer Trigo to create stores that are cashierless. The catch is that even for…
Touch the Soil News #1460 (Feature photo – The Columbia – Public Domain) When it comes to food, we’ve got to eat. When it comes to housing, we need a roof over our heads. Now, the costs of these two basics are colliding as often there is not enough for both – driving discount foods…
Touch the Soil News #1459 (Feature photo – New York Farmers Market – By Dada1960 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65127776) Curbed news journalist Valeria Ricciulli brings us the story of a new rooftop farm. The new farm is a quarter of an acre located six stories up on the roof of a new…
Touch the Soil News #1458 (Feature photo – Handling Grain – Public Domain) Gladstone Land is an investor owned company that specializes is owing farmland and leasing it back to proven agricultural producers. The company recently announced that it purchased two farms in Nebraska totaling 3,850 acres for $14.7 million. Plans are to convert the…
Touch the Soil News #1457 (Feature photo – Farm + Food Lab – courtesy of Solutions for Urban Agriculture) The non-profit Solutions for Urban Agriculture has teamed up with the city of Irvine to create the Farm + Food Lab. It is a place for people to go and see real-life urban agriculture and how…
Touch the Soil News #1456 (Feature photo – Urban Farm – CCA SA 4.0 International, Oztafi US) UrbanLand journalist Kevin Brass brings us a detailed discovery of Agrihoods – neighborhoods built around urban farms that feed residents. You can read the full story here: https://urbanland.uli.org/planning-design/what-does-the-farmer-say-about-agrihoods/
Touch the Soil News #1455 (Feature photo – Hydroponics – CCA SA 2.0 Generic, Ryan Somma) Now, even the Weather Channel is getting into the population issue as it looks at an enterprise that seeks to feed more people in a more environmentally friendly way. You can read the story here: https://weather.com/forecast-change/marketing/news/2019-10-07-urban-farming-hydroponics-help-feed-world-saving-water
Touch the Soil News #1454 (Feature photo – Lab Grown Meat – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, World Economic Forum) FoodMarket News brings us updates on lab-grown meat. Different from meat substitutes made from plant materials, lab-grown meat are muscle cells fed and grown artificially. You can read more of the story here: https://www.foodmarket.com/News/A/1154263/0/Lab-Grown-Meat-Start-Up-Raises-14-Million-to-Build-Production-Plant
