Touch the Soil News #1958 (Photo – Weekly CSA Offering – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic, Clagett Farm CSA Week 11, Thebittenword.com) In the modern world, a lot of focus goes into what can the dollar to for me in terms of investment. This focus, while understandable, has a certain disconnect from the more basic economic…
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…
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 #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…
