Building Your Sustainable Urban Farm Touch the Soil News #2041 (photo – Food Bank) (Courtesy of Morning Ag Clips draws our attention to a new resource for urban farmers and want to be urban farmers. Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE), part of the USDA, provides competitive grants to folks that advance the whole of…
Touch the Soil News #2026 (photo – Philippine Agriculture ) (Judgefloro, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International) From the USDA to thousands of local food advocates, urban agriculture interest is growing. It is growing not just from knowing who your farmer is, but nutrition and transportation logistics as well. Former Philippine Agriculture Secretary William Dar says…
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 #1973 (Photo – Tokyo, Worlds Largest City – 42 million people – CCA SA 3.0 Unported – Morio) An in depth article, Bloomberg News poses the question: Can a City Feed Itself? Exploring the efforts of a number of cities, this article brings to surface a new paradigm – the politics…
Touch the Soil News #1950 (Feature Photo – Downtown Calgary – (CCA SA 4.0 International, AceYYC https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en) Journalist Boshika Gupta of CBC News reports on whether you can grow your own food to beat inflation. She is writing from Calgary, Canada. Calgary, a city of 1.3 million people is one of the largest cities North…
Touch the Soil News #1895 (Feature Photo – Urban Farm – CCA SA 4.0 International) Josh Sattin gets involved in building and upgrading an urban farm. There is more to the story in building the farm’s infrastructure to make it efficient and productive. You can watch the video here:
Touch the Soil News #1865 (Feature Photo – Philippine Agricultural Marketing Cooperative – Public Domain) It’s not often, that a senior official of a government, goes to a very small community to inspect cabbages ready for harvest. But this is what is going on in the Philippines, a nation of 110 million people, who are…
Touch the Soil News #1855 (Feature Photo – Millet – CCA SA 4.0 International, Kaitha Poo Manam ) Epic Gardening brings us the story of growing and appreciating Millet. Millet is drought tolerant, high in health aspects and costs less to grow than quinoa. You can read the story here: https://www.epicgardening.com/millet-plant/
Touch the Soil News #1835 (Feature Photo – Shipping Container Farm – Freight Farms https://www.freightfarms.com/home/ So how do you set up an urban farm with no land? Simple, you grow in a shipping container converted to a high yield production facility, near a grocery store. Read about an Israeli company that did just that…
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…
