Local Food More than Just Food

Touch the Soil News #1402 (Feature photo – Farmers Market – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license – Patty Mooney) Supermarket Guru – Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) explores how the arena of local foods goes beyond just food, but social interaction and psychological well being. You can watch his video here:

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Do CAFOs, Global Food Trade and African Swine Fever Create an Unmanageable Food Tremor?

Touch the Soil News #1401 (Feature photo – African Swine Fever Virus – CC BY-SA 3.0, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18630318) Confinement animal feeding operations (where there are concentrations of pigs), the global pork meat trade and the spreading African Swine Fever are creating an unprecedented food tremor. News about how African Swine Fever is not contagious to people…

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A New Non-Meat Protein from Yellowstone Hot Pool Microbes

Touch the Soil News #1400 (Feature photo – Grand Prismatic Spring –  Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license – David L.Sifry) Called Sustainable BioProducts, this Chicago-based company wants to use fermentation technology to create lab-grown proteins from microbes. The microbes being considered were discovered in hot pools in Yellowstone National Park. Some of the…

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The Dark Side of Industrial Farming

Touch the Soil News #1399 (Feature photo – Amazon Rainforest – By Neil Palmer/CIAT – Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28394053) Farmland grab follows the story of how global companies, in collaboration with corrupt political figures are dispossessing ancestral people from the land upon which they have lived for generations. Unfortunately, many of the dispossessed people…

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The Coming Age of Aquaponics Farms

Touch the Soil News #1397 (Feature photo – Aquaponic Farm – Ryan GriffisCreative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. ) Bold Business news portal journalist Imelda Rabang covers the interesting growth of aquaponics farming. She covers 8 aquaponics enterprises and provides links for those who want more information. You can read the full story here:…

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School Lunches From a Food Truck in Summer

Touch the Soil News #1395 (Feature photo – The Seal of the City of Danville, Virginia – By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19547129) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us the story of the Danville, Virginia School District which purchased a food truck so that it could continue its lunch program during the summer. At a price of…

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