Sentences with phrase «prairie farm»

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In this story, a family struggles on a prairie farm during a drought.

Loaded with free - run chicken, turkey and whole nest - laid eggs from local prairie farms, and whole wild - caught fish from our cold northern Alberta lakes.

Family and Therapy Dog Training Puppy School at Soulful Prairies Farm: Puppy Start Right Preschool and Puppy's Kindergarten

Orijen Tundra — a new product — features goat and venison from prairie farms, rabbit and duck from the Canadian Shield, and Arctic Char from Yukon waters and delivers it (fresh or raw and in proper ratios, of course) right to your doorstep and into Fido's food bowl.

Not exact matches

And over the past year the company got into an entirely new line of business, buying a pair of farm equipment dealers with 16 locations across the Prairies.

Posted by Jeff Rubin on May 12th, 2015 under SmallerWorldTags: bread basket, climate change, farming, food production, NDP, Rachel Notley, the Prairies • 15 Comments

Prescribed or controlled burning is a technique sometimes used in forest management, farming, or prairie restoration.

She has vivid memories of the celebrations when soldiers returned home from World War I; of big picnics on her family's farm on the windswept prairies; of gas rationing during the second world war, when she was a young mother with five kids; and of traveling across Europe, North Africa and the U.S., and even diving in the Great Barrier Reef during a yearlong stint in Australia after she retired.

A final significant finding, Vogel says, is that yields on farms using fertilizer and other inputs, such as herbicides and diesel fuel for farm machinery, were as much as six times higher than yields on farms that used little or no fertilizer, herbicides, or other inputs to grow a mixture of native prairie grasses.

That result contrasts sharply with a controversial study published just over a year ago in Science that suggested that a mixture of prairie grasses farmed with little fertilizer or other inputs would produce a higher net energy yield than ethanol produced from corn (Science, 8 December 2006, p. 1598).

At the end of 2009, the capacity of Texas wind turbines, reaching to the horizons of farm and prairie land, totaled 9,410 megawatts, well more than the combined total of the next three largest wind - power states, Iowa, California and Washington.

Noah Fierer of the University of Colorado at Boulder and his colleagues decided to get an idea of how such a community might look for the Midwest tallgrass prairies — once a highly productive, lush landscape now degraded thanks to intense farming.

There are far fewer species of grasses and grasslike plants around prairie wetlands — those potholes — than in areas that were once farmed, DeKeyser found.

The Black - footed Ferret has been listed as an endangered species since 1967; more than a half century of misguided predator control campaigns and efforts to eradicate prairie dogs from farm and ranch land decimated the population.

During the first half of the 20th century, misguided predator control campaigns and efforts to eradicate prairie dogs from farm and ranch land decimated the population.

What follows is an Old Testament story that ends the drifters heavenly days on the farm, as the wheat - fields are taken over by a plague of locusts, a fire rampages through the prairie and a fight until death between the suspicious farmer and the hot - tempered Bill occurs after the hustler was observed touching the farmer's wife in not such a brotherly way.

In the early years of the 20th century, Richard Gere and Brooke Adams are Bill and Abby, a Chicago couple on the run from the law who pose as brother and sister to find itinerant farm - work in the Texas prairie.

If you fly over the prairies that stretch across the middle of the United States, you see below the farms and municipalities neatly laid out in townships composed of 36 sections, each a mile square.

Inspired by our vast fertile prairies, rich soils and pristine lakes, ACANA Wild Prairie features unique regional ingredients delivered fresh from western Canadian farms and waters.

Milkweed seed for the project has been donated by several amazing organizations, including the largest tallgrass prairie restoration project, Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie and Eastern Monarch Butterfly Farms.

(«I've spent a lot of my life around machinery,» he said, referring to his youth on a farm in the Alberta prairies.

Over 300 farms and two towns have completely or partially gone under water in a slowly rising sea on the prairie.

«These are the kinds of plants typically found in native prairie, roadsides, in the middle of farms.

Our farms, modeled on prairies, would be self - fertilizing and pest - resistant.

As to my claim that several species could be pushed to extinction if extensive wind farms are build in their diminished habitat, on my side regarding lesser prairie chicken I have a refereed paper in BioScience.

Karl Schroeder: If there is any life on Earth in 100 years, I foresee either an ecological catastrophe, with the majority of species extinct, the oceans stagnant, the arctic and Antarctic desolate and lifeless, and billions of people living in complete ignorance of how things could be, in massive urban centres; or, a world in which climate change was solved early and completely through innovations in power generation and carbon sequestration, where agriculture has gone to vertical farming and North America has largely been rewilded back to forest and open prairie, and where extinct species are regularly recreated by genetic engineering and reintroduced.

From slowing, and maybe even reversing global climate change through soil carbon sequestration to creating perennial food crops that mimic natural prairies and help protect our waterways, there are many methods that could be deployed to both reduce farming's negative impact and simultaneously start rebuilding natural ecosystem services that have previously been degraded.

We don't have 55 million lesser prairie chickens, the fact that cats in the UK kill 55 million house sparrows and starlings doesn't mean that wind farms can't harm lesser prairie chickens, ferruginous hawks, and other sensitive species.

Wind farms do impact sensitive species, such as the lesser prairie chicken.

Mark wonders: > what it is about wind farms that is killing off > the little prairie chicken.

Farm - Level Adaptation to Climatic Variability and Change: Crop Diversification in the Canadian Prairies.

The wind farm is situated on the Pembina Escarpment, which rises above the surrounding plains, exposing the turbines to the prevailing prairie winds.

That's because developed countries have set aside billions of dollars for REDD, but they won't start spending it in a big way until they see trustworthy reference levels that tell them both how much carbon is captured in the forests, farms, and prairies of recipient countries and how that carbon content is changing.

Carbon counting deals with the science: how you measure the amount of carbon captured in forests, farms, and prairies, as well as the changes in that amount (the carbon flux).

12 November 2013 WARSAW Poland India has a Constitution; Germany has a Grundgesetz; and the Terrestrial Carbon Accounting world has its Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land - Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF)-- a 5,000 - page compendium of science - based rules for measuring, monitoring, and accounting for the carbon captured in forests, farms, and prairies.

Loggers on the Ottawa River or in the British Columbia wilderness, western settlers living off of and clearing prairie land to prepare it for farming, gold prospectors in the Klondike, oil sands pioneers punching holes in the boreal forest — all of them became intimate with Canadian nature even as they transformed it from ecology to commodity.

In the US, a bunch of farmers got fleeced for $ millions as a wind power outfit running two small wind farms went belly up on the prairie (see our post here).

Their organic hemp oil is pressed from organic hemp seed that is grown especially for them by family farms on the Canadian prairie.

One consequence of this law was that men of Japanese origin between the ages of 14 and 45 were taken into custody and consigned to work as road camp labourers in the British Columbia interior or on farms in the Prairies.

Colin is from the Prairies, where he grew up on a mixed grain and livestock farm in Saskatchewan.

The mistake of hitching our identity to form â $ «a farm, a vineyard, an orchard, a prairie schoolhouse, a chicken coop with poop.