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 #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 #1877 (Feature Photo – Strawberries – CCA SA 3.0 unported, Pramod Kumra) If you have the best tasting fruit, you can sell it for a high price. That’s the story of Oishii indoor farm specializing in the sweetest tasting strawberries in the world. Now the company is launching a second variety…
Touch the Soil News #1875 (Feature Photo – Eastie Greenhouse – Photo courtesy of Eastie Farms) The Christian Science Monitor brings us a story that has many elements of a different economy. Cooperative, close to home, sensitive to price and access. While on the surface it appears like a feel-good story, there is perhaps more…
Touch the Soil News #1872 (Feature Photo – Basil – Photo CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Castielli) Here is another business story about an indoor vertical farm in Arlington, Virginia. This community of roughly 250,000 sits alongside the nation’s Capitol, with a long and rich history. Seems that Arlington is experiencing high vacancy rates (22 percent)…
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 #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 #1862 (Feature Photo – Edible Uprising Farm – Photo courtesy of Edible Uprising Farm) Edible Uprising Farm, in Troy, New York shows what two people can do with a vision and hard work. The video below, reminds one of the work ethic that built America. You’ll find their marketing and financial…
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…
