Sixty New York City Schools Get Urban Agriculture Curriculums This Fall

Touch the Soil News #1992 (photo – Growing Tomato Plants –  (Jolly Janner – Public Domain) CBS News of New York brings the story of schools in New York City that are bringing urban farming curriculums, with physical labs, to sixty schools. New York Sun Works, the non-profit responsible for building out the urban farming…

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Growing Urban Farmers and Urban Farm Professionals

Touch the Soil News #1958 (Photo –  Weekly CSA Offering –  Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic, Clagett Farm CSA Week 11, Thebittenword.com) In the modern world, a lot of focus goes into what can the dollar to for me in terms of investment.  This focus, while understandable, has a certain disconnect from the more basic economic…

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Dallas, Texas – Makes Connection between Urban Agriculture & Food Security

Touch the Soil News #1887 (Feature Photo – Addie’s Grocery – Photo courtesy of Addie’s Grocery) Food Security, what historically might have come from the Federal Government, is now becoming the focus of major cities. The City of Dallas, recently adopted a city-wide urban agriculture plan to promote, in every way possible, the building of…

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The Fruitful Field – Another Urban Farm Business Model

Touch the Soil News #1863 (Feature Photo – The Fruitful Field – Courtesy of the Fruitful Field) FoodTank news portal brings us the story of a program that accepts youth 14-18 to learn work skills and interpersonal relationships to help them succeed in life. The program is part of a larger operation called The Fruitful…

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Urban Ag News – A Source for Urban Ag Business Insights

Touch the Soil News #1809 (Feature Photo  – Greenhouse – CCA SA 4.0 International, Veeti Davideson) While growers like to be passionate about what they do, the reality is that the bills need to be paid, wealth needs to be built, and we have to have a vacation here and there. For this reason, having…

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A National Urban Farm Strategy

Positive Future #871 (Feature photo – Urban Farming – CCA SA 4.0) Envisioning a national urban farm strategy, seems far a fetched, for a large nation like the United States. Where do you even start? However, for a small nation like Luxemburg – population 640,000 – in the heart of the European Union, you can…

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Promoting Urban Agriculture at the USDA Farm Service Agency

Positive Future #802 (Feature photo – Farm Service Agency Logo – public domain) Most counties around the country have a Farm Service Agency offices to help farmers with all sorts of issues and federal programs. Now, the USDA wants to start setting up committees at the local levels to support urban agriculture. At one time,…

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What Makes Urban Farm Visits Popular in London?

Touch the Soil News #1575 (Feature photo – Mudchute Park & Farm – By Ewan Munro from London, UK – Mudchute Park and Farm, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, E14Uploaded by Oxyman, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22371279) The Resident News journalist Kat Hopps, tells us about the most popular urban farms in London. Mind you, London…

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