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)…
Category: Urban Agriculture
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…
Like the Tide – Urban Food Growing is Rising
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,…
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…
Another High Population Island Nation Takes on Urban Farming
New Report on Importance of Urban Farming
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…
1.4 Billion People – Looking to Urban Ag as a Salvation
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…
Urban Ag News – A Source for Urban Ag Business Insights
Innovative Cities Promoting Urban Agriculture
Touch the Soil News #1807 (Feature Photo – Urban Agriculture – CCA SA 4.0 International) While this story is about cities embracing urban agriculture for a variety of reasons, the important aspect for growers is finding a sustainable business model that delivers what the cities want, Hopefully there are ideas from these cities, that have…
Another Model for an Urban Food Business
Vertical farming is not new, but it is if you are growing in a soil medium. Future Crops operates an 8,000 square meter indoor vertical farm (roughly 86,000 square feet or 2 acres). The goal is to create foods that are kosher, hence a chemical free environment in a soil medium (https://www.future-crops.com/). You can read…