Touch the Soil News #1900 (Feature Photo – Orange Tree – Public Domain, Hans Braxmeier) Bay Area KQED brings a story of agricultural consciousness in an area where the cost of land is far above reach. Yet, pockets of urban farming still exist in the Bay Area. The story is as important for the perspective…
Touch the Soil News #1899 (Feature Photo – Farming in Pakistan – Photo CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Sanam Mir Ghazi)) News from the nation of Pakistan is putting food and farming into a global perspective. Pakistan is the world’s 5th most populous nation with 243 million people (the U.S. has 334 million people at number…
Touch the Soil News #1898 (Feature Photo – Topsoil Loss – Photo courtesy USDA NRCS) The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is launching the Global Soil Doctors Programme, designed to asses soil conditions and remedying soil problems. A reason for the international interest is that estimates are that 24 percent of the world’s productive lands…
Touch the Soil News #1897 (Feature Photo – Addie’s Grocery – Photo GNU Free Doc License CCA SA 2.5 Generic EvaK) Down to Earth Farm from the State of Washington shares its experience and insights into profitable market gardening from soils to market. They put together an informative video that must have taken some effort…
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Touch the Soil News #1895 (Feature Photo – Urban Farm – CCA SA 4.0 International) Josh Sattin gets involved in building and upgrading an urban farm. There is more to the story in building the farm’s infrastructure to make it efficient and productive. You can watch the video here:
Touch the Soil News #1894 (Feature Photo – Flag of Liberia – Photo courtesy of Addie’s Grocery) As long as I can remember, the mantra has been equality in wages between men and women. However, another promising route is Gender Prosperity. No need for women to compete for the same minimum wage jobs that men…
Touch the Soil News #1893 (Feature Photo – Carrots – Photo Public Domain – Evan-Amos) Josh Sattin, in his video below, brings up some important insights into market gardening success. No matter how many of these videos you watch, there is always something to learn. Josh reveals some steps and approaches that could be farm…
Touch the Soil News #1891 (Feature Photo – Soil Microbes – Public Domain USDA) A new plant “tech” company called Andes is developing a seed treatment in which they load (inoculate) certain microorganisms with a formulation inside of the crop seeds. The new plants will be able to pull carbon out of the atmosphere and…
Touch the Soil News #1890 (Feature Photo – Latin America – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Mexican Golden Eagle) Foodtank News brings up an interesting question regarding Latin America: How is it that, given our wealth of agricultural resources, we always seem to find ourselves on hunger’s precipice? After all, of the world’s 12 so-called mega…
