Touch the Soil News #1879 (Feature Photo – Addie’s Grocery – Photo courtesy of Addie’s Grocery) The President of the nation of the Philippines, in concert with their Department of Agriculture and Department of Interior & Local Government have stepped up to the plate to make urban agriculture a national priority. When it comes to…
Touch the Soil News #1834 (Feature Photo – Vessel Brave Commander– Courtesy Vessel Finder.com) Successful Farming news brings the story of ships bearing Ukrainian grain successfully reaching the Horn of Africa. This is the first shipment of grain from Ukraine since the Russian invasion to reach the drought stricken nation of Ethiopia. Carrying 23,000 metric…
Positive Future #867 (Feature photo – Food Waste – GNU Free Doc License) Do Good Foods, currently processes 160 tones of excess or wasted food from 450 grocery stores per day or 60,000 tons a year. Global AgInvesting news reports Do Good Foods has just received $169 million in venture capital funding. The waste will…
Positive Future #861 (Feature photo – Food Donations – Public Domain.) When we think of a big store with many outlets, we think of Walmart, with approximately 4,700 outlets in the U.S. However, the nation’s food banking network, has over 60,000 food pantries and meal programs, reaching between 45 and 50 million people a year,…
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
