Touch the Soil News #1433 (Feature photo – Growing Home Farm – By Andy Collings and Growing Home Farm) While we all need to make a living, having a social enterprise still includes monies for wages and living. Growing Home Organic Farm in Chicago, Illinois provides insights in how farming can be a social enterprise…
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School Garden Initiatives
Touch the Soil News #1432 (Feature photo – Caring for Food Plants – Public Domain) FoodTank news portal brings us an interesting list of school garden initiatives and school cafeterias. With 16 initiatives to choose and learn from around the world, local food advocates and learn how to change their communities and educational experiences. You…
Roasted Crickets and Cricket Meat are Coming
Touch the Soil News #1431 (Feature photo – Cricket – CCA SA 4.0 International Didier Descouens) The use of insects for food and protein are not new, as indigenous people around the world have eaten insects for thousands of years. What is new is the confined animal feeding and farming of insects – like crickets…
Food Deserts and Micro-Farming
Touch the Soil News #1430 (Feature photo – Micro-Farming – courtesy of Kyle Dues) Good ideas don’t have to come from big companies with lots of capital. Good ideas can come from minds that are working and thinking. Ohio State campus news “The Lantern” brings us a story of how one student is changing how…
Two Urban Farms Move into Hardware Store
Touch the Soil News #1429 (Feature photo – Micro-Greens – USDA Public Domain) The oldest hardware story in Washington, DC just took in two new enterprises in addition to its hardware business. One is a rooftop farm and the other is a micro-green indoor farm in a re-purposed storage space. You can read the full…
New York City to Enter Food and Agriculture
The Cockroaches Are Coming
Touch the Soil News #1427 (Feature photo – American Cockroach -courtesy of Zongquing Wang and Ed Baker) Cockroaches are more popular in China for food, cosmetics and medicines. In fact, China has cockroach farms with over a billion cockroaches in confined growing environments. Because cockroaches eat waste, they are environmentally supportive in dealing with food…
German Millennials – Wanting Allotment Gardens
Touch the Soil News #1426 (Feature photo – German Allotment Garden – Public Domain) Allotment gardens are of European descent. In the past, governments often times made plots available for the citizenry to grow food. The plots were generally much larger than a community garden plot in the U.S. European allotment gardens are often large…
An Airplane Fight That Can Increase the Cost of Food
Touch the Soil News #1425 (Feature photo – A European Airbus Jumbo Jet – Public Domain) Supermarket Guru Phil Lempert brings us the latest discord in the trade wars that look to jump from China to the European Union. At the heart of the matter is subsidized air transport for $25 billion of food products…
The Changing Structure of Agriculture
Touch the Soil News #1424 (Feature photo – Singapore on the Globe – courtesy of TUBS CCA Sa 3.0 Unported) Singapore, a small city-nation of 5.7 million people in Southeast Asia, is looking to be a hub of urban agricultural innovation. Because of the urban and technological focus, things will be different. International Business Times…