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…
Category: Urban Food Delivery
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…
The Future of Urban Food Delivery
Positive Future #474 (Feature photo – The P1 eCargo Delivery Bike – courtesy of EAV)) Inhabitat journalist Katherine Gallagher brings us the story of a new expression of cargo bikes. This small partially enclosed cargo bike can carry up to 330 lbs. of cargo and can negotiate dense urban settings. Based in Great Britain, Electric…