Touch the Soil News #1839 (Feature Photo – Historical Cannery – Public Domain) Carroll County, Virginia is different when it comes to emphasizing and making the most of local food. You can bring your produce to a public cannery, prep the food for canning, get help about canning and go home with the finished…
Positive Future #756 (Feature photo – Philippine Children – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Anton Zelenov) Mindanao Times journalist Patmei Bello Ruivivar brings us insights to Philippine food security that has messages for the whole world. The nation’s food security was insufficient and has become even more so with the virus curtailment actions. A small Island…
Touch the Soil News #1561 (Feature photo – A nature strip between the sidewalk and road planted into food – courtesy of UNSW) The University of New South Wales in Australia brings us news of how planting food gardens on public nature strips has evolved from activism to mainstream. The rise in planted nature strips…
Touch the Soil News #1459 (Feature photo – New York Farmers Market – By Dada1960 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65127776) Curbed news journalist Valeria Ricciulli brings us the story of a new rooftop farm. The new farm is a quarter of an acre located six stories up on the roof of a new…
