Touch the Soil News #1904 (Feature Photo – Farmland – Public Domain, USDA) The USDA puts out a report every year called Farms and Land in Farms. The peak farmland year was in 1954 when there was more than 1.2 billion acres of land in farms. The U.S. Population in 1954 was 158.2 million people.…
Touch the Soil News #1596 (Feature photo – Allotment Garden – By Pierre Mazzacano D’Amato – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16527044 The Richmond and Twickenham Times of London reports on the waiting lists for access to an allotment garden to raise food. For perspective, there are over 90,000 people on waiting lists for an…
