Touch the Soil News #1485 (Feature photo – Soil Profile – Public Domain, USDA) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us the story of how consumers want to know more about the health of their food. Essentially, if you follow the trail, it leads back to the soils. You can see Phil’s video here:
Category: Soil Degradation
Growing Food 10 Times Faster Without Soil
Touch the Soil News #1334 (Feature photo – Soil Erosion –CCA SA 1.0 Generic) The Yorkshire Post explores how hydroponics and soil substitutes are able to grow food 10 times faster than in soil out in a conventional field. As the world loses some 24 billion tons of topsoil to erosion each year, scientists at…
Modern Farming Tremor
Positive Future #419 (Feature photo – Soil Erosion – Public Domian) Industrial farming’s impact on the world’s soils is dramatic. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that about one third of the world’s topsoil has been degraded. Darker times for food are not too distant in the future. A recent article on…