Positive Future #817 (Feature photo – Satellite Photo of Chicago – CCA Sa 3.0 IGO) WTTW News brings us a story from Chicago that reveals how growing your own food was derailed by covid concerns and artificial barriers to water. The right and opportunity to grow your own food has – in Chicago – taken…
Touch the Soil News #1603 (Feature Photo – A Community Garden – By Art Anderson, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54523644) The Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation brings news of how the shock of empty grocery shelves is getting people to start thinking outside grocery stores. While interest in growing food may be due to a temporary virus…
Touch the Soil News #1600 (Feature Photo – A Community Garden – CCA SA 2.0 Generic, Christian Bradford) Dallas Morning News journalist Ellise Pierce brings us the new of how gardening and food growing are a bright light in the lives of people during these times. Dallas even has its own Manager of Urban Agriculture…
Touch the Soil News #1598 (Feature photo – Moscow – By A.Savin (Wikimedia Commons · WikiPhotoSpace) – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41219897) Plentiful Lands journalist Naomi Bosch brings us the story of two Russian mega-cities. Moscow with a population of 12.5 million people and St. Petersburg with a population of 5.3 million people have in times past…
