Sentences with phrase «says city farm»

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Founder and owner Craig Howard, who also runs a small Kansas City organics catering company, says he was inspired by the self - serve and honor - based model used by many traditional farm stands.

«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.

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

Stephen says Don continued to promote organic agriculture even throughout his later years by making trips to Brisbane's Northey Street City Farm organic market where he interacted with consumers and sold books from the United States on issues that concerned him.

«People try to start things with me because of who I am, and I know that means I have to stay away,» he says while sitting in the Newport News City Farm, a minimum - security work camp where he has spent the last month.

New legislation that would increase penalties for prostitution near city schools — inspired by the anger over the open sex trade happening near PS 6 in West Farms — is getting some push back by a civil rights group that says the stiffer penalties will only make it harder for prostitutes to get out of the lifestyle.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said Wednesday that they are negotiating possible compromises on the minimum wage issue, which could include a lower minimum wage in Upstate New York than in New York City, excluding farms from the hike, and providing a tax credit to small businesses to help them adjust.

Hoffay, meanwhile, blasted the use of in - house labor for work which had previously been farmed out, saying it was an end run around both local contractors and the council, which has oversight of city purchasing and contracts.

In a written statement, the bill's sponsor, Inez Dickens, said she hoped that the report would also «provide information to the City Council on the inclusion of the minority, small business farming community in the city's procurement process.&raCity Council on the inclusion of the minority, small business farming community in the city's procurement process.&racity's procurement process.»

Several walrus face bones have also turned up at the farm, suggesting that the inhabitants hunted in the communal Disko Bay expedition, says excavation leader Konrad Smiarowski of the City University of New York in New York City.

Hunter - gatherers and farming villagers who live in worlds without lightbulbs or thermostats sleep slightly less at night than smartphone - toting city slickers, researchers say.

«I think a lot of people would like to bring the energy from wind farms in the Midwest to the cities in the east, but those links aren't easy to make,» says Walter Musial, an engineer at NREL.

Many say they moved to a farm or far from the city.

But the statement «Many say they moved to a farm or far from the city» sounds a little bit strange.

I went from being a high tech exec city slicker to a farmer, having my own hobby farm and garden center, so never say never!

Simon Ambler, Director of the Portakabin Group said, «This is our seventh project for the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and follows on from the two earlier phases on the City Farm site near to the Riverside Schools campus, that are now in use.

«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.

Fresh City Farms doubled the number of customers it serves over the past year, said Goel, which is atypical growth for the company that has been steadily increasing its subscriber base by roughly 40 to 50 per cent a year since 2012.

Among the sites searched were a Kansas City, Kan., residence — where some dogs allegedly were trained using treadmills and caged chickens — and a northern Missouri farm owned by one of the suspects, authorities said.

He says if there ever comes a time when you become tired of the city and its complications, you can come back to the farm to live and pursue a much more meaningful and «realer» life.

She said wind turbines were just one item on Bloomberg's green energy list, citing six experimental turbines in the East River and a possible city - state offshore wind farm.

PRINCETON — Danish power company Orsted, the world leader in offshore wind farm development, will open an office in Atlantic City in May at the Bella Condominiums and start hiring staff soon, its president said Tuesday at the fifth annual International Offshore Wind Partnering Forum.

«Plants really like red and blue light,» said Gus van der Feltz, director of city farming at Philips.

As New York says «Cities already have the density and infrastructure needed to support vertical farms, and super-green skyscrapers could supply not just food but energy, creating a truly self - sustaining environment.»

While she was born and raised in Calgary, Bishop says she's looking at buying a farm just outside the city, and is «genuinely curious about whether or not I'd want to practice in the city or out of the city, and so I'm hoping this will give me some direction about whether we'd move closer to the city or closer to a small town.»

I didn't know where the family ended and the farm began,» says Graves, a founding partner at Graves Garrett in Kansas City.

In an area unsuitable for farming much more than potatoes and stones, and leached by the wretched Mall in the Middle of Nowhere, which was to say just beyond the property tax limits, Backton had set its fiscal sights on becoming a commuter dormitory for the big city, a mere two hours away by a not very difficult combination of highways.

The total amount of the death benefit helps determine the premium, says Allen Sarafyan, a State Farm Insurance agent in Studio City, Calif..

The decision to target the ad in those two cities offers the first look at how accounts linked to the Russian government - affiliated troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency used geographically targeted advertising to sow political chaos in the United States, the sources said.

For starters, he said the state must protect the water it has, use it as efficiently as possible and find new ways to adapt homes, cities, farms and industry to a world where water is becoming scarcer.

«Just north of our civic square, where things like city hall and the fire department are located, was basically a farm field,» says Heck.

Allen said the farms will be distributed throughout the city in 200 to 300 acre clusters with the first ones slated for development next year.