Sentences with phrase «abandon the farmed lands»

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The abandoning of farms, the creation of reservoirs, and the preservation of the remaining open land resulted in scenic lands that drew large amounts of tourism from New York City.

Teachers might explain how mechanized cotton farming made production cheaper, causing farmers to abandon other crops and pressure the federal government for more land to use for growing.

As people abandoned their nomadic lifestyle and settled permanently to farm the land, stored grain attracted rodents.

This farm, which would eventually include 30 additional acres of surrounding land, was used as a shelter for lost, abandoned and abused pets.

The farms were abandoned in the 1960's when speculation made the land worth more for real estate than farming.

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People reacted by using abandoned or cheap land for organic farming and self sufficient lifestyle etc..

Two frequently cited solutions — raising productivity through large investment in fertilizers, irrigation and mechanization, and extending farming to degraded, abandoned or pasture lands — would still leave food and energy supplies falling short of demand, according to a study released on Thursday by the climate change advice division of Deutsche Bank.

Now, the company has turned their attention to the several abandoned golf courses in the country, with plans to build large solar farms on the land.

Developers of a solar farm atop a former Kentucky coal mining site hope their work will inspire similar projects — putting abandoned land to use and helping revive the Appalachian economy.

This also relates to the question of Land values and wind farms; plainly, if a house truly had been abandoned due to noise nuisance, its value on the market will drop substantially.

But another excerpt from the movie is just as revealing about what it really means to be truly resilient — and this one comes from a former teacher turned urban farmer who is making a living from the land on less than half - an - acre of abandoned inner city real estate.We have, of course, covered the urban farming scene in Detroit many times over here on TreeHugger.

If these seeds are engineered to use less herbicides when, according to recent indications, many weeds are becoming Roundup - resistant, requiring a cocktail of herbicide applications in certain farming areas while crop land is just being abandoned in others, they have most certainly failed!

Hantz Farms manager Matt Allen said Detroit contains 40,000 acres of land that is either vacant or occupied by abandoned eyesore buildings.