Touch the Soil News #2035 (photo – Hackney City Farm) (Courtesy of Dr. Neil Clifton, CCA SA 2.0 Generic) Coming up with an urban farm idea in the midst of the greater London area has to have some attraction. In addition, operating as a non-profit while everyone gets a paycheck which makes contributions to Social…
Touch the Soil News #2027 (photo – Gardening next to Oxidation Ponds in Zimbabwe) (Sustainable Sanitation Alliane, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic) The small African nation of Zimbabwe has about 17 million people, but its agricultural sector has suffered declining productivity challenges to the point where the Government is calling on households to start growing their…
Touch the Soil News #2013 (photo – We Grow Microgreens- (courtesy of We Grow Microgreens https://www.wegrowmicrogreens.com/ ) The company called We Grow Microgreens has established itself close to the famous Hyde Park outside Boston. With assistance from a USDA grant, it is an interesting business model, leveraging sales from microgreens, tropical plants, leaves and…
Touch the Soil News #2012 (photo – City Sprouts – (courtesy of City Sprouts, Singapore) Singapore, a small island nation in Southeast Asia of only 284 square miles. That equates to a land area that is 10 miles wide and 28 miles long. Singapore, a former British colony uses English as its main language. This…
Touch the Soil News #2006 (photo – Livia and Juanita in front of a toolshed at Eat Healthy Live Healthy Urban Garden – (USDA photo – Public Domain) Norwegian University of Life Sciences, established in 1859 (164 years ago) is now offering a Master’s Degree in urban agriculture. The university is joining a growing list…
Touch the Soil News #2005 (photo – Green Wall – CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication, Daderot) Arirang News of South Korea reports that urban agriculture in the nation is practiced by almost 2 million people, many of which are small plots at home or on terraces. However, the cost of supplies and creating…
Touch the Soil News #2002 (photo – Baltimore Urban Agriculture – (Public Domain – USDA) News Portal Fast Company presents a story on why your city would want to create an Office of Urban Agriculture. Some of the cities that have already created and hired a director of urban agriculture include Washington D.C., Atlanta, Philadelphia…
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…
Touch the Soil News #1953 (Photo – Garden Matching Program – Courtesy of Food 4 Thought) Food 4 Thought in Vancouver, British Columbia is pairing up gardeners from apartment dwellings who want to garden with homeowners willing to share some of their yard. While there are many community gardens in Vancouver, the problem is they…
Touch the Soil News #1920 (Feature Photo – Doha, Qatar – CCA SA 4.0 International, StellarD) The Peninsula Newspaper, brings the story of four enterprising households, creating lives around vegetation, flowers and food. Gardening in the small nation of Qatar (2.8 million people), these gardeners go above and beyond the call of duty. Nearly 90…
