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 #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…
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…
Touch the Soil News #1331 (Feature photo – Urban Cow –CCA SA 3.0 Unported) New Food journalist Sam Block brings an interesting story how the local foods trend is bringing farm animals into the city. For urban farmers that integrate livestock into their production plans, the story has material insights. The story surrounds how cities…
