Touch the Soil News #1614 (Feature Photo – U.S. Victory Garden Poster – Public Domain The three most populations nations in the world are China, India, and the United States in that order. India, with a population of 1.35 billion is getting the message when the world wants to send itself into a chaos. One…
Touch the Soil News #1612 (Feature Photo – Home Gardening Poster – Public Domain The Scotsman journalist Stephanie Rendall brings us timely insights into starting a food garden this spring. She also provides links to videos to help get started. You can read the story here and access the video links: https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/outdoors/5-best-online-gardening-videos-guides-and-youtube-tutorials-2532028
Touch the Soil News #1611 (Feature Photo – San Diego County – CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=437015) Village News journalist Joe Naiman brings the story of how the San Diego Board of Supervisors is establishing an urban agriculture incentive zone program. San Diego County is home to around 3.4 million people. The emerging thoughts about thinking…
Touch the Soil News #1610 (Feature Photo – Victory Garden Poster – Public Domain The UC Food Observer brings interesting news of how interest in food gardening has exploded. The new interest in growing food plants goes beyond the present “virus crisis”. Once the mind has been visited with fear and uncertainty, it does not…
Positive Future #741 (Feature photo – Older Battery Storage Power Station in California – By Ysc usc – Own work, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64315693) Renew Economy journalist Giles Parkinson brings us the story of a pending $300 million battery in Australia to help upgrade its electrical grid. Like the earlier 100MW Tesla battery installed to…
Positive Future #740 (Feature photo – Waxworms – By Sam Droege – https://www.flickr.com/photos/54563451@N08/19051745004/ , Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41690212) BrightVibes brings us the story of Waxworms – plastic eating caterpillars. It was discovered that the bacteria in the gut of the waxworms are able to break down the plastics. While the world is far from having enough…
Positive Future #738 (Feature photo – Electric Farm Tractor – Courtesy of Steven Heckeroth) Modern Farmer journalist Lindsay Campbell bring us the story of the emergence of electric farm tractors. Diesel tractors take 10 units of fossil-fuel energy to put one unit of food energy on American tables. You can read the full story here:…
Touch the Soil News #1609 (Feature Photo – Netherlands Greenhouses – CCA 1.0 Generic) AgriTech Tomorrow brings us news of how indoor farming is also spurring research on plants that thrive indoors and in artificial lighting environments. A new consortium called Precision Indoor Plants plans to develop flavorful and nutritious indoor food crops. You can…
Touch the Soil News #1608 (Feature Photo – Fruit and Vegetable Seeds – CCA 4.0 International) Modern Farmer journalist Alex Robinson brings us a very interesting story – how the demand for vegetable seeds has skyrocketed this spring. The good news is that seed producers are finally getting an economic message of their importance, which…
Touch the Soil News #1607 (Feature Photo – Pure Harvest Smart Farm – Courtesy of Pure Harvest Smart Farms and WAFRA International Investment Company) Global uncertainty brings people to the root of civilization – growing food. The recent investment by WAFRA International Investment company of $100 million into Pure Harvest Smart Farms brings the trend…
