Touch the Soil News #1646 (Feature Photo – Picking Strawberries – CCA SA 4.0 International, Marc Lautenbacher) Whether its farmers dumping milk and fresh produce, leaving produce in the field due to labor shortages or larger kinks in the food supply chain, the stories all lead to the same conclusion – escalating risks of hunger…
Touch the Soil News #1645 (Feature Photo – Closed Restaurant – CCA SA 4.0 International) Agritecture News portal brings us an interesting story of three farmers woke up one day to lose almost all their restaurant customer base. Interestingly the three farms highlighted in the story all took dramatic action to adjust and survive. You…
Touch the Soil News #1644 (Feature Photo – CSA Food Basket – CCA SA 2.0 Generic) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings is the story of increasing interest in sourcing food locally. The upshot is that focus on food security – via sourcing foods more locally – may be here to stay. You can watch the video…
Touch the Soil News #1643 (Feature Photo – Nairobi, Kenya – CCA SA 3.0 Unported) RUAF International brings us news from Nairobi, Kenya – an African city of 4.3 million people whose food supply chains were compromised from virus economic shutdowns. Amid chaos, food gardening is looking more like the answer to a sustainable future.…
Touch the Soil News #1642 (Feature Photo – Jersey City – CCA 2.0 Generic, massmatt) Jersey City, New Jersey is embarking on a city-sponsored food production plan in which the food produced is free. This city of 262,000 people will establish 10 different farming sites throughout the city. The goal is to reshape the diets…
Touch the Soil News #1641 (Feature Photo – Singapore Coat of Arms – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Xavi Garcia) It is no secret that the Netherlands has the largest greenhouse infrastructure in the world and is touted as the world’s second largest exporter of food. Now the Netherlands is teaming up with Singapore to boost…
Positive Future #772 (Feature photo – Solar Power Logo – CCO 1.) Universal Public Domain) According to U.S Energy Information Administration, the average cost of energy production (kwh) in the U.S. for 2018 ranged between 11 cents kwh for nuclear to down to 7 cents for Hydro=electric. CleanTechnica journalist Carlo Ombello brings us the story…
Positive Future #771 (Feature photo – Modern Desalination Plant – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, James Grellier) Estimates are that 1,000 children die each day from water-borne diseases – a cause of lack of access to clean and safe water. Access to water for agriculture, personal consumption and industry is a key driver of how the…
Touch the Soil News #1640 (Feature Photo – Greenhouses – CC BY 1.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=130422) CGTN News brought the story first a couple of years ago as a large Chinese company began to build out the world’s largest complex of food greenhouses. Built in the desert in Egypt, the project has now built 600 greenhouses with…
Touch the Soil News #1639 (Feature Photo – Greenhouse – Community Garden – Courtesy of City Farmer News) The Newfoundland Provincial Government in Canada just allocated $100,000 to expand and enhance community gardens in the province. Last year the projected established 23 new community gardens and enhanced 78 others. Government intervention into local and urban…
