Positive Future #805 (Feature photo – Strawberries By Vintagenie – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=85819971) Horti Daily brings us information about the company called iFarm. iFarm researches technology for growing food in indoor vertical gardens and is now working on over 50 projects in Europe and the Middle East. iFarm is like a research…
U.S. Botanic Garden Coordinates Food Production at Public Gardens Across the Nation
Positive Future #804 (Feature photo – U.S. Botanic Garden – CCA 3.0 Unported, Alma mater) To shore up food gardening in the U.S., The U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington D.C. is reaching out across the nation to help promote urban food gardening. So far, they have made awards to 28 public gardens across the nation.…
More Food for Uncertain Times – Rooftop Gardens
Positive Future #803 (Feature photo – The Seal of Bangkok – public domain) Global economic sanctions against non-essential workers does not protect the lives of non-essential workers. In fact, it can lead them to health crisis from insufficient calories due to insufficient purchasing power. Complicating the issues is the retraction of global trade – compromising…
Promoting Urban Agriculture at the USDA Farm Service Agency
Positive Future #802 (Feature photo – Farm Service Agency Logo – public domain) Most counties around the country have a Farm Service Agency offices to help farmers with all sorts of issues and federal programs. Now, the USDA wants to start setting up committees at the local levels to support urban agriculture. At one time,…
Community Gardening at the Library
Positive Future #801 (Feature photo – Community Gardener at the Forsyth County Public Library in North Carolina – courtesy of Forsyth County Public Library) Shareable journalist Noah Lenstra brings us the story of how Libraries are picking up on the trend to use vacant spaces as community gardens, teaching gardens or urban farms to donate…
The Rising Up of Farming
Touch the Soil News #1675 (Feature Photo – Vertical Farming – By Kabirnayeem.99 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70160314) What If YouTube news channel brings us the story of vertical farming. While vertical farming is not new, its contributions to overall global nutrition are small and cover mostly the growing of micro-greens and lettuces.…
From Toxic to Productive
Touch the Soil News #1674 (Feature Photo – The Green Era Vision – Courtesy of Green Ear Renewable Energy and Urban Farming Campus) Agritecture directs us to the story how public and community forces work together for financing and development of a miracle in modern times. Taking a toxic site and turning it into a…
Man Rescues 1,000 Tons of Food for Food Banks
Positive Future #800 (Feature photo – Russet Potatoes – Willis Lam CCA SA 2.0 Generic) BrightVibes brings us the story of how people came together to rescue millions of pounds of food that farmers could not sell. The food was rescued and disseminated into food banks. You can read the story here: https://brightvibes.com/1901/en/washington-man-rescues-more-than-1000-tonnes-of-crops-going-to-waste-and-delivers-them-to-food-banks
BMW – 7 Million Electric Cars by 2030
Positive Future #799 (Feature photo – BMW I3 – By Vauxford – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73866430) CleanTechnica brings us a press release that the BMW group now already offers the world’s widest selection of cars with electrified drive trains. BMW sold more electrified cars in the first half of 2020 than it did…
Should 25% of Central Park (New York City) Be Turned into Urban Farms
Positive Future #798 (Feature photo – Central Park – By Martin St-Amant (S23678) – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6383576) While there are many reasons to keep Central Park as it is, the growing concern over access to health food and a fragile food system makes the idea not so out of bounds. There are…