Touch the Soil News #1335 (Feature photo – Lined Canals of the Toshka Project –CCA SA 3.0 Unported) Farmland Grab brings us the latest on the Toshka project in Egypt. The project has lined canals to stop seepage and receives a large amount of Egypt’s fresh water resources. Started in 1997, the project has languished…
Touch the Soil News #1334 (Feature photo – Soil Erosion –CCA SA 1.0 Generic) The Yorkshire Post explores how hydroponics and soil substitutes are able to grow food 10 times faster than in soil out in a conventional field. As the world loses some 24 billion tons of topsoil to erosion each year, scientists at…
Touch the Soil News #1333 (Feature photo – Urban Cow – Public Domain) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings an interesting story of how McDonalds just acquired a company called Dynamic Yield. Dynamic Yield specializes in machine learning to gather data about customers in order push recommendations on them in future visits. The obvious goal is to…
Touch the Soil News #1332 (Feature photo – The Brasserie 2050 Restaurant –Courtesy of the Brasserie 2050 Restaurant) Inhabitat journalist Dawn Hammon brings news of a new prototype of restaurant that has zero food and material waste that opened last fall in the Netherlands. Called the Brasserie 2050, the new foray into sustainable eating raises…
Touch the Soil News #1331 (Feature photo – Urban Cow –CCA SA 3.0 Unported) New Food journalist Sam Block brings an interesting story how the local foods trend is bringing farm animals into the city. For urban farmers that integrate livestock into their production plans, the story has material insights. The story surrounds how cities…
Positive Future #464 (Feature photo – Solar Farm – CCA SA 4.0 International) GreenTechMedia reports that U.S. now has over 2 million solar installations. It took 40 years to install the first million and just 3 years to install the second million. As solar power continues to become less expensive, estimates are that solar will…
Touch the Soil News #1330 (Feature photo – Emblem of Saudi Arabia – Public Domain) AgFunder News brings some interesting developments that have major implications for food insecure nations with lots of desert adjacent to salt water oceans. Startup Red Sea Farms (https://www.redseafarms.com/) is making news as it looks to commercialize greenhouses that can use…
Touch the Soil News #1329 (Feature photo – Bee Keeping – courtesy of the Savannah College of Art and Design) The Savannah College of Art and Design is creating a legacy activity – organic farming and beekeeping. Founded in 1978, the college has over 13,000 students on several campuses. Inhabitat journalist Lucy Wang reports on…
Touch the Soil News #1328 (Feature photo – Calgary City Flag – Public Domain) The city of Calgary in the Canadian Province of Alberta is the heart of a metro area of some 1.4 million people. The Calgary Herald reports that the City of Calgary, the Compost Council of Canada and a number of urban…
Touch the Soil News #1327 (Feature photo – Pig Farming –CCA SA 2.0 Generic) We’ve been covering the unnerving spread of African Swine Fever as it began uncontrollable spreading least year in China and Southeast Asia. Now, the military of Vietnam is being called out to cull (destroy and remove) pig herds that have been…
