Touch the Soil News #1412 (Feature photo – Aquaponic Farm – By Lili Stewart – ATSDR (part of the CDC) series of state-specific fact sheets. Bitmap versions have been seen on US Embassy websites. Direct PDF URL [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14801188) The U.S. agricultural sector plants around 90 million acres of soybeans every year –…
Touch the Soil News #1411 (Feature photo – Agriculture – Public Domain) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us information about why we should pay more attention to agriculture in light of the risks of climate change. While some of the effects may be beneficial to agriculture, more of the effects are not beneficial to agriculture. You…
Touch the Soil News #1410 (Feature photo – Arugula – By Retama – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1803040) Chicago Tribune journalist Alexia Ruiz brings us the story of Jake Counne and the building of Backyard Fresh Farms. http://www.backyardfreshfarms.com/about-us/ Counne is convinced that his technology approach will allow him to grow food at an affordable…
Touch the Soil News #1409 (Feature photo – Abundant Greens Poster – courtesy of Abundant Greens Urban Farms) Abundant Greens Urban Farms is an urban plant stand located in the driveway of Jeanene Miller’s house in Ballard, Washington (Seattle metro area). http://www.abundantgreensurbanfarm.com/ K5 News in Seattle covers the story of how Jeanene grew here interest…
Touch the Soil News #1408 (Feature photo – Mung Beans – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license – Sanjay Acharya) Foodmarket News brings us the story of how one egg alternative – JUST Eggs – is being picked up for in-store sales at approximately 2,100 Kroger-owned stores around the nation. JUST Eggs is made…
Touch the Soil News #1407 (Feature photo – Soybean Fields – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license – Alfonso) DTN Ag Policy Editor Chris Clayton brings us the story of how a disappointed China is looking to find other sources for food commodities than the United States. COFO, China’s largest agricultural enterprise is going…
Touch the Soil News #1406 (Feature photo – Brother Holmes Leads Two Volunteers Through the Soul Spirit Farmers garden – courtesy Fool Well Alliance) East Point, Georgia is a modest city of 34,000 people adjacent to Atlanta. What makes them unique is that they have been selected by the larger city of Atlanta to test…
Touch the Soil News #1404 (Feature photo – Altius Growing Towers – courtesy of Altius Farms) The Denver Post journalist Joe Rubino reports on the Altius Farms’ new operating greenhouse in Downtown Denver. The 7,000 square foot greenhouse uses vertical towers to increase production slated for downtown establishments. You can read the full story here:…
Touch the Soil News #1405 (Feature photo – The City of Eliat, Israel – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license -Deror_Evi) Fish Farmer news portal reports on Israel’s entry into fish farming as a major undertaking by the nation. Initial plans are to turn the city of Eliat from a tourist destination into a…
Positive Future #539 (Feature photo – Siberian Fires of 2019 – courtesy of NASA) The Siberian Times news is revealing photos and stories of epic scariness on the mega-fires now burning in Siberia. Burning at a rate of almost 25,000 acres a day, estimates are the over 8 million acres have been burned. With this…
