Touch the Soil News #1350 (Feature photo – Mixed Greens – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license – courtesy of DocteurCosmos) A sobering prediction is that more food will be consumed in the next 50 years than that consumed in the last 10,000 years combined. It is…
Touch the Soil News #1337 (Feature photo – Urban Farming – CCA SA 4.0 International) The trend is gaining momentum – food, farming and food policy are being taken up by cities – often because national governments are ineffective in dealing with hunger and food security. SciDevNet reports that backyard farming is now key to…
Touch the Soil News #1313 (Feature photo – Urban Produce – CCA SA 3.0 Unported) Inhabitat journalist Katherine Gallagher brings us that story of a high-density apartment complex on Staten Island (New York) that brings a larger urban farm right into the center courtyard. The trend to bring food gardening into high density living spaces…
Touch the Soil News #1308 (Feature photo – Urban Farm of Keep It Real Vegetables – courtesy of Keep It Real Vegetables) Journalist Amy Jo O’Donoghue of the Deseret News in Utah just covered a story of how popular urban farming is becoming in the state. While farmland is being lost in Utah, the actual…
Touch the Soil News #1307 (Feature photo – Allotment Gardens – CCA SA 3.0 Unported) Singapore, a small island city-state of only 5.7 million people. The nation has been recognized as the most technology-ready nation in the world. As a global center for finance and technology, the people must still eat and make food important.…
Touch the Soil News #1287 (Feature photo – Local Farmers – Public Domain) An interesting article showed up in the U.S. News and World Report about growing food in cities. It is one of the most in-depth articles about food security for cities ever to hit mainstream media. What makes cities important is that there…
Touch the Soil News #1284 (Feature photo – Seal of Philadelphia – Public Domain) The Inquirer of Philadelphia reports that the city is looking to get involved in finding land for people to farm. Philadelphia has 28,500 vacant lots within the city and 14,800 properties with vacant or abandoned buildings. Philadelphia with a population of…
Touch the Soil News #1279 (Feature photo – Fruit Walls of Paris – Public Domain) Creating thick walls to encase fruit production allows heat to be absorbed during the day and releasing it at night. The fruit walls create a micro-climate that could increase the temperature within the walls by almost 18 degrees. This old-tech…
