By JEFF BURBRINK Extension Educator, Purdue Extension Elkhart County GOSHEN — I began to write this story at 8:35 a.m. Dec. 21, 2015.  At that time, there were 7,389,298,829 people on Earth. The big challenge of our collective lives will be to feed 8 billion-plus people, projected to occur sometime in the year 2024. But within …read more.