Touch the Soil News #2043 (photo – Farmstand) (Courtesy of Sarah Stierch (CC BY 4.) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Big_Mesa_Farm_farmstand_-_July_2023_-_Sarah_Stierch_01.jpg For every farmer and market gardener out there, there are probably two or three people in the wings wanting to do the same. An organization called the Market Gardener Institute offers books and training courses for beginners and those…
Touch the Soil News #2042 (photo – Burro Mobility Robot) (Courtesy of Burro.ai https://burro.ai/) AgFunder News brings the story of Burro – a mobility robot for farms. For many farm tasks, a small mobility robot can improve efficiency. Burro made the news as they just achieved more venture capital funding. You can read the story…
Building Your Sustainable Urban Farm Touch the Soil News #2041 (photo – Food Bank) (Courtesy of Morning Ag Clips draws our attention to a new resource for urban farmers and want to be urban farmers. Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE), part of the USDA, provides competitive grants to folks that advance the whole of…
Touch the Soil News #2040 (photo – Food Bank) (Courtesy of Often times when spring arrives, there is a dedicated number of customers that live in the region that find their way to the Kelp4Less warehouse for several reasons. Foremost on their minds is food as a path to better health as they take their…
Touch the Soil News #2039 (A Crop of Flax) (Courtesy of geography.org.uk, by Ian Patterson CCA SA 2.0 Generic) Positive.News portal brings the story of the woman who grew her own jeans. Aldersey-Williams, a textile artist who teaches botanical fabric dyeing at the Wild Dyery, took on the task of growing using alternative textile plants,…
Touch the Soil News #2038 (photo – Urban Farm) (Courtesy of USDA, Public Domian) Journalist Wayne Pratt on the KBIA news portal brings an interesting story from Missouri. The state is offering tax credits to encourage more urban farms throughout the state. The tax credit aren’t targeted specifically to food-insecure areas, but anyone that wants…
Touch the Soil News #2037 (Grain Terminal & Train Moving Grain for Export) (Courtesy of USDA, Public Domain) Successful Farming News Portal brings an interesting story about farm exports. The focus of the story is on how high interest rates artificially increase the value of the U.S. dollar relative to other currencies. As such, nations…
Touch the Soil News #2036 (photo – Soybean Plants) (Courtesy of USDA, Public Domain) AgWeb News Portal brings the story of a company called Taranis, which says it is in the business of scouting fields for real-time data on crops. The idea is to enable farmers and agronomists with the best data for decision making. …
Touch the Soil News #2035 (photo – Hackney City Farm) (Courtesy of Dr. Neil Clifton, CCA SA 2.0 Generic) Coming up with an urban farm idea in the midst of the greater London area has to have some attraction. In addition, operating as a non-profit while everyone gets a paycheck which makes contributions to Social…
Touch the Soil News #2034 (photo – Healthy Farmland Soils) (Courtesy of USDA Public Domain) Successful Farming News Portal brings an insightful story about farmland values that even bankers are wincing over. When the price of farmland reaches a certain threshold, the revenue from crops can no longer pay the cost plus its financing costs. …
