If you’re a cool season lawn care fanatic like me, you’re itching to get back out in your yard after the long winter months. December – April can seem like an eternity. So during that time, we set our upcoming lawn care plans, and surfed and studied hundreds of YouTube videos, Facebook groups, and lawn…
Where do five million U.S. college faculty and staff put their retirement savings? With the TIAA, otherwise known as Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America-College Retirement Equities Fund. The TIAA manages over $1.3 trillion in assets which includes 2 million acres of farmland. The TIAA is the world’s largest farmland manager. The problem is…
Touch the Soil News #1753 (Feature Photo – Manila – CCA SA 4.0 International, John Cornett) The Manila Bulletin reports efforts underway to accelerate the proliferation of urban food in Manila, a city in the heart of a metro area of almost 20 million people. The reason for the increasing attention to local and…
Touch the Soil News #1752 (Feature Photo – Cape Town – CCA SA 2.0 Generic, Damien du Toit) The Independent Online news portal in Cape Town, Africa, brings a story of how the city, in a unified effort, plans to fund and assist 720 micro farmers. Cape Town is one of those mega-cities that…
Touch the Soil News #1751 (Feature Photo – Urban Food – CCA SA 2.0 Generic) With food security consciousness on the rise, attention to soils in the cities is the new environmental focus. You can read the full story here: https://environmentjournal.online/articles/urban-soil-is-often-overlooked-as-a-resource/
Touch the Soil News #1750 (Feature Photo – Farm Crops – Public Domain) Farmlandgrab news portal brings us the story of America’s largest owner of farmland. The farmland number is 242,000 acres. That would be a farm that is 10 miles wide and almost 40 miles long. So who would it be? None other…
Touch the Soil News #1749 (Feature Photo – Rabbit’s Garden – Courtesy of Rabbit’s Garden) Staten Island Urby apartments have an unusual feature – and on-site urban farm. While the apartments are pricey – studio apartments as high as $2,677 per month – being next to nature and food is a valuable benefit. Brightvibes…
Touch the Soil News #1748 (Feature Photo – Food Plate – Public Domain) Given the times, interest in food security has taken on greater importance at the local and national levels. No where is this more true than in Singapore, an island nation that speaks English and must import 90 percent of its food.…
Touch the Soil News #1747 (Feature Photo – Food Garden – Public Domain, Symi81)) Given the times, interest in home gardening is not a surprise. However, it has spurned a project called the Million Gardens Movement. Organized by Frank Giustra and Kimbal Musk. It is a non-profit helping to bootstrap 1 million more food…
Touch the Soil News #1746 (Feature Photo – India – GNU Free Doc License) Brightvibes news portal links us to an interesting story of a school immersed in nature and trees. The design was the winning entry for a competition to design a new educational facility for the city of Pune in western India.…
