Touch the Soil News #1712 (Feature Photo – Leafy Greens – By Libby Kokes – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89034266) Agritecture news portal brings the story of Kalera – one of several fast growing vertical farming companies. Kalera focuses on producing leafy greens in ultra-modern vertical facilities that allow for the production and delivery…
Touch the Soil News #1711 (Feature Photo – Global Location of Israel – CCA SA 3.0 Unported) Jerusalem Post journalist Aaron Reich brings us the story of a new vertical farm enterprise that operates out of a Freight Container and other unconventional ways. (https://www.verticalfield.com/) You can read the story here: https://www.jpost.com/jpost-tech/israeli-start-up-makes-vertical-farms-to-grow-crops-in-city-parking-lots-647244
Touch the Soil News #1709 (Feature Photo – Empty Restaurant – CCO 1.0 Universal Public Domain) https://www.undercurrentnews.com/) Phil Lempert ( https://www.supermarketguru.com/ ) brings us the story of what is unfolding in the food business – to include what 4 million workers from 100,000 permanently closed restaurants are doing. You can watch the video here:
Touch the Soil News #1709 (Feature Photo – The Seal of Uganda – CCA SA 3.0 Unported By Sodacan This W3C-unspecified vector image was created with Inkscape. – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18828670) Brightvibes brings us the story of disadvantage children in Uganda, a nation of 43 million people, many on the edge of calamity.…
Touch the Soil News #1708 (Feature Photo – Hydroponic Lettuce – Public Domain, Leon Brooks) Bright Farms has been making news. In January 2020, Bright Farms opened one of the world’s largest indoor greenhouse hydroponic operations. At 280,000 square feet (6.5 acres), the green house can produce 2 million pounds of fresh produce each year…
Touch the Soil News #1707 (Feature Photo – Shrimp Aquaponics Setup – courtesy of Akualogix https://www.undercurrentnews.com/) Undercurrent News journalist Dan Gibson brings news of vertical aquaculture (for shrimp) in the city of Singapore. As an Island City-State, Singapore is constrained as to land availability and must import over 90 percent of its food. Given global…
Positive Future #830 (Feature photo – Solar Farm – CCA SA 4.0 International, Leanne Davis) The Guardian News portal brings the story of a mega solar farm in the works. The project will cover an area of almost 50 square miles and employ 10,000 people to build. Expecting to generate 10 gigawatts of energy, some…
Touch the Soil News #1706 (Feature Photo – Satellite Image of the UAE. Notice how much of the nation is desert – courtesy of NASA, Public Domain) DesignBoom news portal brings the story of Polish architectural Firm MJZ (https://m-j-z.com/). Poland is an Eastern European nation of 38.5 million people that is also a member of…
Touch the Soil News #1705 (Feature Photo – Sunflower Seedlings, CCA SA 3.0 Unported) Wayblaze gives us the story of how a British Columbia (Canada) initiative has begun to source local seed from local farmers. At stake is the diversity of food and diversity of seed sources. Today, four (4) seed firms control 56% of…
Positive Future #827 (Feature photo – Benban Solar Park, Africa – courtesy of Copernicus Sentinel Data 2020) EnergyCentral journalist Nevelyen brings us the story of the how the International Energy Agency has declared solar power as the upcoming King of energy. Solar-generated electricity has expanded by 22 percent in the first seven months of 2020.…
