Can a City Feed Itself?

Touch the Soil News #1973 (Photo – Tokyo, Worlds Largest City – 42 million people – CCA SA 3.0 Unported – Morio) An in depth article, Bloomberg News poses the question:  Can a City Feed Itself?   Exploring the efforts of a number of cities, this article brings to surface a new paradigm – the politics…

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Can You Grow Your Own Food in the City to Beat Inflation?

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…

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