Touch the Soil News #1932 (Feature Photo – Pyramid Hydroponics – Courtesy of Harvest & Share Food Relief Society) The Free Press journalist Colleen Zacharias brings us the story of Harvest and Share Food Relief Society. This non-profit has invented a new way to grow via a hydroponic pyramid. This innovation is used to…
Category: Food Sharing
Rallying the Community Around Urban Agriculture – Eastie Farms
Touch the Soil News #1875 (Feature Photo – Eastie Greenhouse – Photo courtesy of Eastie Farms) The Christian Science Monitor brings us a story that has many elements of a different economy. Cooperative, close to home, sensitive to price and access. While on the surface it appears like a feel-good story, there is perhaps more…
The Farm Without Borders
Positive Future News #897 (Feature Photo – Farm Without Borders – Courtesy Interfaith Neighbors) Located in Asbury Park, New Jersey, is the Farm Without Borders. The farm’s produce is given away to local residents. The produce is accessible to residents 24 hours a day. The farm and its operations are overseen and financed by a…
Food Banks – America’s Largest Grocery Chain
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,…
Local Food Security – A Significant Boost to the Future
Touch the Soil News #1754 (Feature Photo – Michigan Urban Farming Initiative Logo – CCA SA 4.0 International) It doesn’t take much contemplation, to realize modern civilization is 90 percent reliant on artificial life support systems – pumped water distribution, electricity, transportation, waste removal and the list can go on. One of the largest…
Global Food Sharing – a Better Way to Interact with the World
Touch the Soil News #1377 (Feature photo – Food Sharing – Public Domain Thomas Cooper Gotch) Sharecity is a program of FoodTank. It seeks to log in all the places in the world where food is shared. It’s importance lies in laying down our competitive and aggressions towards ourselves and start on a more civil…