Touch the Soil News #1443 (Feature photo – Food Waste – By OpenIDUser2 – http://trashwiki.org/en/File:Luxembourg_dumpster.jpeg, GFDL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26747239) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us a report on the scope and impact of food waste. About 40 percent of all food in the U.S. goes to waste, which means all the inputs of land, water, pesticides, fertilizer and…
Touch the Soil News #1442 (Feature photo – Indoor Farming – CCA SA 3.0 Unported – Bryght Knyght) A newer company in Pittsburg called Fifth Season (https://www.fifthseasonfresh.com/#our-story) made news recently as it just got $35 million in funding to build a 60,000 square foot vertical farm. Being solar powered, the new facility will produce over…
Touch the Soil News #1441 (Feature photo – urban food – Manfred Sause CCA SA 3.0 Unported) AP News brings us the story of how local food and non-profits are working to bridge the gap between eating and food insecurity. The key is to get local food growing in food desert areas and then having…
Touch the Soil News #1440 (Feature photo – Robot – Courtesy of Toyota, CCA SA 3.0 Unported) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) looks deeper into the trend to put robots into grocery stores. Some early evidence suggests that people are totally excited about them. You can see the full story here:
Touch the Soil News #1439 (Feature photo – Radical Living Garden – Mennonite Church) The Mennonite news portal brings us the story of how they are striving to get local people into growing food and local churches into providing the land and the kitchen. This has the seed for a large interdenominational effort and more…
Touch the Soil News #1438 (Feature photo – Impossible Burger – by Sara Stierch, CCA By 4.0) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us news about the growing presence of the plant-based Impossible Burger. You can see his report in the video below:
Touch the Soil News #1437 (Feature photo – Inraren Food Forest – courtesy of Abdellah Azizi) News Portal Atlas Obscura journalist Eric J. Wallace brings us the story of a long lost and forgotten food forest bearing bananas, date palms, tamarinds, oranges, figs, guavas, pomegranates and much more. Called Inraren. The goal of the garden…
Touch the Soil News #1436 (Feature photo – Manhattan – CCA Sa 3.0 Unported) Agritecture news portal interviews Jonathan Sumner – a traditional farmer turned urban farmer. Sumner’s farm – Riverpark Farm in Manhattan is just steps away from one of his largest customers. You can read the full story here (click on the story…
Touch the Soil News #1435 (Feature photo – Pork Meat – CCA SA 3.0 Unported – Rainer Zenz) China continues to struggle with supplies of pork, since the African Swine Fever has wiped out roughly one third of China’s pigs. This is no small problem as pork is the favored meat for China’s 1.4 billion…
Touch the Soil News #1434 (Feature photo – Food Forest – CCA SA 3.0 Unported – Zoey Kroll) Food forests are public places planted with fruit and nut trees and other edible plants. As a public space, people are allowed to pick the food for themselves. Ensia news portal brings us an update on the…
