Sentences with phrase «city farms in»

«You haven't seen the increased prices on local foods, locally produced foods in the way you have for imports,» said Ran Goel, who founded the Greater Toronto Area's Fresh City Farms in 2011.

Carpenter wrote Farm City about her own inner city farm in Oakland, CA and teams up with the founder of City Slicker Farms, also in Oakland.

Recently, it has been asked to set up another City Farm in Haringey.

Not exact matches

South Korean cities in the province have fared better than their neighbors north of the DMZ, but they have struggled to diversify their economy beyond old coal mines, farming and fisheries.

Potato farming at the terminal: Terra Blue chips are a trademark snack on JetBlue flights, and now the airline is harvesting its own blue potatoes locally at a newly installed garden at Terminal Five in New York City's JFK airport.

That's one reason why City Girl Coffee Company, run by Alyza Bohbot, gets its beans from women - run farms and cooperatives and donates 5 % of its profits to organizations that support women in the coffee industry.

Devita Davidson of Foodlab Detroit, a network of food entrepreneurs in the city, has helped create a partnership with local urban farms called Detroit Grown and Made.

«Successful urban growers usually find a high value niche crops to keep business afloat, or use a cooperative model,» said McGrane, pointing out the City Commons program both farms participate in.

In Colorado's Weld County, home to Peppler's farm and more than 19,000 active oil and gas wells, some officials see selling unneeded portions of their allotments from the Colorado River as a way to shore up city budgets.

The systems we operate in — the highways, the airplanes, the factory farming, the ubiquitous air conditioning in cities in deserts — are nearly impossible to avoid on a daily basis.

Even as millions of Chinese citizens leave the farm and flock to cities looking for work, there are fewer manufacturing jobs in China than there were 20 years ago.

Cushing, Okla., a sleepy town of 8,300 — which sits well off the interstate between Oklahoma City and Tulsa in a scrubby flatland — is best known for the vast farms of oil storage tanks that ring its southern flank.

Webb turned down a highly coveted internship at a venture capital firm in New York City and decided to spend the summer building farming robots with his teammates.

The first time I interviewed him, in 2009, he spoke excitedly about a plan for a new organic farm that the Stop hoped to build in the northern part of the city.

A: Rooted in Hope will be working on a new project focused on water and sustainable farming practices with the City of Refuge in Ghana.

• Bowery, a New York City - based farming startup, raised $ 20 million in Series A funding co-led by General Catalyst and GGV Capital with additional investment from GV.

In October, two AP journalists visited THCServers.com, a brightly lit, family - run internet company on the former grounds of a communist - era chicken farm outside the Romanian city of Craiova.

SMART URBAN FARMING Smart farming is also an opportunity in cities.

It was a sleepy farm town but today, is the second largest city in Maine with 36,000 + inhabitants.

We recommend that renters in Asheville compare quotes from Amica, State Farm and Liberty Mutual as they offered the cheapest renters insurance rates in the city.

AI, Internet of Things and Augmented Reality are about to reinvent how industries utilize data — and could drive an era of productivity growth in our cities, farms, factories and hospitals.

Furthermore, in 17 out of 33 cities, State Farm actually had the cheapest rate, so we always recommend shopping around to be sure you're paying the lowest price.

Some of the cheapest auto insurance rates we saw in Commerce City were at Grange, State Farm and Auto Owners.

Similar to other cities in Michigan, State Farm offered the most affordable renters insurance rates in Grand Rapids.

The cheapest renters insurance quotes in the city were offered by State Farm by a margin of $ 121.

Commerce Bank of Kansas City, Missouri, serves wheat and corn farms in the Midwest; Silicon Valley Bank nurtures tech start - ups on the left coast.

They don't have the support system that people provide in small cities and farm communities.

One small example of this in our neighborhood is the urban farm one of my friends and mentors started to provide jobs to «returning citizens»: It required the city to help give away land and clear vacant property and some startup capital from a local farming company, but it is based on the church's understanding of the needs of the people and explicitly tied to the concept that faithful believers can help disciple and encourage people who have been incarcerated for harming others, walking them through the transformative process.

The farm sells produce to local residents of the subsidized housing next to the farm, and the farm has a booth at a farmers» market in another part of the city.

Some who are forced off the farm no doubt find good lives in the cities.

Helpless to grow our own food — mechanization has destroyed the family farm, and we live mostly uprooted in cities and suburbs we are dependent upon the religion that threatens our faith.

It is precisely when we leave our normal habitat and enter a world where we are unfamiliar, directly or indirectly, with the possibilities relevant to the context that we get in trouble — the farm boy in the big city or the city slicker who visits the farm.

In the early 1980s, the widows of the «disappeared» left the farms and went to the city for refuge and work.

Since then, as in the United States, agribusiness has replaced subsistence farming and there have been vast movements of population to cities often unable to provide people with the minimum facilities of urban life.

«11 He called for the «production and perennial establishment of millions of comfortable city homesteads and moderate - sized farms, healthy and independent, single separate ownership, fee simple, life in them complete but cheap, within reach of all.

This trend results in part from policies that make moving to cities attractive to members of farm families.

Two big challenges in urban farming today are securing financing and educating cities on ways to nurture urban agriculture in their communities, Herbert says.

In regards to educating city government, controlled - environment agriculture requirements for permitting, sewer, water and fire codes need to be understood and perhaps re-evaluated at the city level when it comes to indoor farming.

Unfortunately, for those of us who live in a city, visiting a farm for fresh eggs is not always an option.

If you drive the area around Ocala and Gainesville (not the cities themselves, but the stretches in between) you'll see all sorts of horse farms and cows out at pasture.

The is from the farm boy who now lives in the city.

PLUS, a personal tour of a strawberry farm in Plant City, Florida — the Winter Strawberry Capital!

City Beet Farm is an urban farming project in Vancouver, BC.

We shared an apartment for two years in the heart of Quito, working on separate research projects related to indigenous farming movements and farm - to - city food systems.

Each ice cream is handmade in small batches using only all natural cream from local farms in each city.

His goal was to provide cities in the Northeast, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic with farm - fresh produce from North Carolina's rich farming district.

However, back in 1968 in the greater Toronto area, the Chudleigh farm was providing Entertainment Farming for city folk who needed to stretch their legs and breathe some fresh air.

All of the farms are within 280 miles of the company's three California processing plants that are in Downey, Commerce and City of Industry.

Neumark is the founder of The Sylvia Center, which holds year - round programs in schools and New York City Housing Authority community centers to inspire young people and their families to eat well through hands - on learning experiences on the farm and in the kitchen.

You'll have to visit to get a taste — try Chateau Grand Traverse and Black Star Farms near Traverse City, or Tabor Hill Winery and Lemon Creek Winery in the southwest.