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…
Touch the Soil News #1888 (Feature Photo – Picking Apples – CCA SA 4.0 International, Marc-Lautenbacher) News portal Japan Times brings the story of increasing concern over the nation’s agricultural productivity, which has been falling over the past few decades. Like the story we posted about the City of Dallas (metro population of 7.7 million)…
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…
Touch the Soil News #1886 (Feature Photo – Roadway Median Farms – CCA SA 2.0 Generic, Aaron Volkening) Saskatoon, a northern city in Saskatchewan, Canada has approved creating growing plots in city medians. Yes, that means the land between roadways that are often maintained like parks. This is not an isolated story about the slow,…
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…
Touch the Soil News #1861 (Feature Photo – Urban Farming in Malaysia – GNU Free Doc License) Malaysia, an island nation of 34 million people is still trying to upright itself when it comes to food. Food that was one of the first things to take a hit under pandemic orders. The Malaysian Sun, brings…
Touch the Soil News #1833 (Feature Photo – Tokyo, world’s largest city – By Morio – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,) Historically, the global trend has been to expand cities, over the world’s best top soils. Many cities have ordinances prohibiting farming in the city. While it is hard to remove pavement and bring…
Positive Future News #936 (Feature Photo – Farming in India – CCA SA 2.0 Generic, Rajarshi Mitra) India, the world’s second most populous nation behind China, is struggling to feed itself. With 1.4 billion people one focus to solve the problem is urban farming and controlled environment farming. Considering that India has more than four…
