Touch the Soil News #1366 (Feature photo – Rural Poverty – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license – Valcenteu) Plenty – a vertical farming company – has been in the news lately after it received new venture capital funding of $200 million in the past year. Now it’s time to demonstrate how spending that…
Touch the Soil News #1365 (Feature photo – North Korean Farm Without Adequate Equipment – Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (Stephan) at Flickr and http://nk.subnetwork.org/) While the news on North Korea is generally about potential armed conflict and weapons, North Korea is facing a food crisis. While trying to wave military threats to the…
Touch the Soil News #1364 (Feature photo – Green Rooftop of Chicago City Hall – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license – Tony The Tiger) Curbed journalist Alissa Walker brings us the latest on how cities with their black streets and dark roofs are causing heat islands that are taking a noticeable toll on…
Touch the Soil News #1363 (Feature photo – Egg Carton With Seeds Embedded – courtesy of George Bosnas) As the world tries to integrate recycling, Greek designer George Bosnas designed an egg carton that is embedded with seeds. Instead of discarding the egg carton into the trash, simply plant it outside and plants will grow.…
Touch the Soil News #1362 (Feature photo – Biofilta Urban Farm – photo courtesy of Biofilta) Australian company Biofilta (https://www.biofilta.com.au/#/) is helping cities re-invent food in concrete jungles. Recently the company built an urban farm on top of a large parking garage in Melbourne, Australia. The South China Morning Post brings the story here: https://amp.scmp.com/lifestyle/interiors-living/article/3012990/how-urban-farms-could-solve-our-future-food-problems-and
Touch the Soil News #1361 (Feature photo – Avocados – By B.navez – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4877156) Global AgInvesting brings us news about the largest avocado orchard in New Zealand that is now up for sale. The Orchard has been redeveloped with new trees which will take several years to reach full production.…
Touch the Soil News #1360 (Feature photo – Flooded Farm – FEMA Public Domain) Civil Eats journalist Danielle Beurteaux covers the arena of food shocks – something we could also call food tremors. Most food shocks come in the form of weather or climate related extremes. In a world of 7.5 billion people, the slightest…
Touch the Soil News #1359 (Feature photo – Rural Poverty – Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license – Michael Gabler) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations wants to focus international efforts at eradicating extreme rural poverty. Despite centuries of economic and financial development, modern systems are sufficiently limited in being able to…
Touch the Soil News #1358 (Feature photo – Urban Agriculture – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license – Arnoud Joris Maaswinkel) Curbed journalist Caroline Spivack brings us the story of New York’s city council seeking to develop every possible vacant lot owned by the city into some productive food garden. Part of the effort…
The Great Green Wall – Largest Climate Change Initiative Ever Touch the Soil News #1357 (Feature photo – Northern Africa – Public Domian) With millions of people living on the edge of environmental austerity and drought, the continent of Africa is undertaking a massive initiative to plant trees and sustainable vegetation along thousands of…
