Positive Future #787 (Feature photo – School Garden for Teaching – CCA SA 4.0 International, Michael Barera) Foodtank brings us the story of FoodCorps. FoodCorps, a non-profit, is a national service program that educates students about health food. Now the FoodCorps is helping students learn about growing food at home. Youi can read the full…
Touch the Soil News #1656 (Feature Photo – Solectrac Electric Tractor – Courtesy of Solectrac https://www.solectrac.com/cet) AFN News brings us the latest on the development of an electric tractor. Solectrac, located in San Francisco aims to help reduce the $12 billion U.S. farmers spend on fossil fuels each year. Solectrac is offering the new tractors…
Touch the Soil News #1655 (Feature Photo – Individual Depicting Anxiety – By Partridge, Rondal, 1917-, Photographer (NARA record: 8464464) – U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16648146 Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/ ) brings us the story of a new report on how the Covid economic shutdown is leading to hunger, anxiety and worry.…
Positive Future #786 (Feature photo – Hemp Fiber Board – By Elke Wetzig (elya) – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8383485) The Hemp Industries Association brings updates on the various building applications for hemp. The nation’s housing crisis of an extreme shortage of housing units – 2.5 million housing units short – means we can…
Positive Future #785 (Feature photo – Hemp Shorts– By Matti Blume – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70056222 The story of hemp spans centuries as a material for textiles (cloth), particularly for the sails of big ships. Today, hemp clothing is gaining in popularity and in availability. You can see more the story here:
Positive Future #784 (Feature photo – Flag of Great Britain – Public Domain) CleanTechnica Journalist Dr. Maximillian Holland reports that June plug-in auto sales in the United Kingdom reached 9.5 percent of the car market for the month of June. This could be a sign that the electrification of transportation is gaining rapidly over the…
Touch the Soil News #1654 (Feature Photo – Melons – USDA Public Domain) The Star news brings us the story from Malaysia where P. Manickavasagram tends to his garage roof-top melon farm. In business for 10 years, the roof-top farm is host to 3,600 melon plants that have an automated watering system. You can read…
Touch the Soil News #1653 (Feature Photo – Micro Greens – By U.S. Department of Agriculture, Public Domain) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us the story of Fifth Season. Fifth Season is an indoor vertical farming enterprise that has already attracted over $30 million in venture capital money. The company plans to revolutionize the industry with…
Touch the Soil News #1652 (Feature Photo – Food Bank Logo – CCO 1.0 Universal Public Domain) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7185231) The Atlantic picks up the story of the Pandemic Hunger Crisis as it has become to be known. The problem is that it is just getting started. If food banks become overwhelmed, the health crisis of hunger…
Touch the Soil News #1651 (Feature Photo – Soil Born Farms Produce – courtesy of Soil Born Farms) ABC 10 News brings the story of Soil Born Farms in Sacramento, California. The farm grows food for the community and teaches the community to grow food. Soil Born Farms is also part of a longer-term trend…
