Matching Apartment Dwellers with Neighborhood Lawns for Gardening

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…

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A National Urban Farm Strategy

Positive Future #871 (Feature photo – Urban Farming – CCA SA 4.0) Envisioning a national urban farm strategy, seems far a fetched, for a large nation like the United States. Where do you even start? However, for a small nation like Luxemburg – population 640,000 – in the heart of the European Union, you can…

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Urban Farm Survives Shutdown – Thanks to Home Delivery

Positive Future #776 (Feature photo – Micro-Greens  – Public Domain USDA) WJLA news brings us the story of Little Wild Thins City Farm in Washington D.C. Owned and operated by Mary Ackley, she explains how she lost 90 percent of her business in one week. https://www.littlewildthingsfarm.com/ Thanks to locals stepping out to buy home-delivery micro-greens…

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Obstacles Facing Urban Agriculture in Dense Cities?

Touch the Soil News #1306 (Feature photo – Rooftop Greenhouse – CCA SA 3.0 Unported) AgFunder News recently posted an interesting article on the feasibility of urban agriculture in New York City. The article, however, has application to anyone pursuing urban farming in any major metropolitan area. While finding a solution to feed billions of…

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