Eddy's Good News: Farm not fire in Cairo and a new dating pop up based on plants?!

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24 Oct 2022, 09:02

Every day during his show on Virgin Radio, Eddy Temple-Morris brings you Good News stories from around the world, to help inject a bit of positivity into your day!Be sure to listen each day between 10am and 1pm (Monday - Friday) to hear Eddy's Good News stories (amongst the finest music of course), but if you miss any of them you can catch up on the transcripts of Eddy's most recent stories below:

Monday 24th October 2022                       

When I was 15 years old one of my favourite songs was Fire In Cairo by The Cure, but now, all these decades later it’s not Fire In Cairo, but farm in Cairo, a vertical farm to be precise, in a fridge, in a supermarket!

Say salaam alaikum to Schaduf, a ground breaking Egyptian supermarket who are aiming to take the air miles or road miles out of their fruit and veg department and they’ve started this with a big fridge where you can just pick your own lettuce and other herbs, so they could not be any fresher.

The garden to bag idea happens thanks to hydroponic vertical farming, which I’ve shared with you in good news before, but this is the first time vertical farming has crossed over with food retail. Schaduf are planning to expand this to other shops, to lower their CO2 footprint and give their customers food that’s fresh as a daisy!

Via: goodnewnsetwork.org

A new live dating pop up popped up in London last week, for people and houseplants!

There’s a dating app for everyone, there’s one for people in uniform, there;’s one for people who like walking, we’ve even featured a one off dating profile for an otter - now we’ve seen everything:

Say hello to ‘The Lonely Plants Club’, a matchmaking service which launched as a pop up in Mayfair after research by The Joy Of Plants showed 78% of people like to take their time and research properly before they enter into a ‘relationship’ with a plant, because let’s face it, it IS a relationship! To illustrate this, the research also revealed the average adult has owned a single plant for as many as five years, with just 7% claiming they have managed the same length of time in a human relationship. That average person has six plants in their house and 60% of them think they’re good at looking after them!

Other research I’ve shared with you show houseplants are good for your mental health and also good for your physical health, they clean the air around you, so let’s hear it for Hiro and Ando, my Japanese peace lilies and Emmentaler, my Swiss cheese plant ;)

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org