Sentences with phrase «almond orchard»

Relax in an artist's home and cottage garden, set in an old almond orchard.

I guess she must have an almond orchard in her back yard.

«Hundreds of colonies go into an almond orchard at a time,» Mattila says, «so food can get spread pretty thin.»

We grew up next to an almond orchard and few of the trees hung over into our yard.

Rural Funds Group has booked a $ 35m boost to the value of a 2500 hectare almond orchard being developed in the NSW Riverina.

Almond orchard operator and nut distributor Select Harvests was the best - performing stock, rocketing 270 per cent to $ 5.09 at Friday's close.

The company's roots can be traced back to the 1880s, when John Bean invented a continuous spray pump he used to treat his almond orchards, and which he soon began selling to other growers.

Adveq's executive director Berry Polmann said the fund was «convinced about the potential of the almond orchards and looked forward to building a farming relationship with Olam, centred around sustainable practices.»

The acquisitions will be funded via a $ 61 million capital raising, which will also provide funding for the development of further 1000 hectares of almond orchards leased to Singapore's Olam at Darlington Point in the NSW Riverina and an earlier acquisition of 259 hectares of macadamia orchards near Bundaberg.

The proceeds have helped fund the development of new almond orchards — the biggest source of its income — and acquisitions in new high - value markets including buying macadamia orchards in Bundaberg and a $ 42 million portfolio of cattle breeding and finishing properties in Northern Queensland, lifting the value of its total portfolio to around $ 350 million.

That deal was the largest since Swiss fund Adveq Real Assets, joined by US - based Municipal Employees» Retirement System of Michigan and the Danish Danica Pension Fund, purchased 18,000 hectares of almond orchards on the Murray River near Robinvale for $ 211 million in 2013.

Vast monocultures — such as the almond orchards of central California and the soybean fields of Argentina — bloom for only three or four weeks each season, offering no food for bees the rest of the time.

But instead of it all being former cotton or tomato fields, a lot of the new almond orchards were formerly natural landscapes, including wetlands.

The conversion of lands to almond orchards was sparked by a rapid growth in demand and rising almond prices.

But they do know hundreds of thousands of pounds of them are used in almond orchards each year.

This includes tomato farms and almond orchards in California, berry farms in Oregon, and fruit orchards in Washington.

Many Montana honeybee hives spend winter months in intensive agriculture regions (e.g., California almond orchards) before returning to a variety of forage -, prairie -, and grain - dominated landscapes in Montana.

At two hives per acre, it now costs roughly $ 500 million to pollinate California's 1.25 million acres of almond orchards.

Out of the 2.4 million commercial bee colonies in the country, 1.3 million only pollinate almond orchards.

And that's just what scientists and farmers are testing out with almond orchards in California.

Not exact matches

Bremner is a family - owned operation, growing certified organic, raw and sproutable almonds in their California orchards since the 1950s.

I love the idea of an almond based crumble topping, and I'm headed out to the orchard to pick up some local berries now!

It was fun to see how almonds go from the orchard to the kitchen all while hanging out with fellow registered dietitians and food bloggers.

A property trust with investments in almonds and macadamia orchards, poultry farms and vineyards — not offices or malls — was the top performing A-REIT in fiscal 2016.

Our certified organic almonds are grown in our family's own orchard here in California and raised without man - made fertilizers or sprays.

The orchard planted diverse wildflowers around the almond trees to provide year - round sustenance for local bees.

Rickland Orchards Greek Yogurt Bars come in six distinct flavors — Blueberry Acai, Cherri Almond, Toasted Coconut, Cranberri Almond, Apple & Honey, and Orchard Peach, with 2 new flavors hitting shelves soon!

«If you think about the almond industry, for example, you have orchards that stretch for kilometres and each individual tree can support 50,000 flowers,» he says.

Leaf - cutter bees and alkali bees pollinate alfalfa, the blue orchard bee pollinates fruit trees (especially almonds), wild bee species Osmia aglaia and O. bruneri pollinate raspberries and blackberries, and O. ribifloris is effective at tending to blueberries.

An independent experiment in boosting almond yields has mixed the wild blue orchard bee species with rented honeybees in California fields, says Theresa Pitts - Singer of the Department of Agriculture's Bee Biology and Systematics Laboratory in Logan, Utah.

So far, she and her colleagues have found that the blue orchard bees seem to efficiently pollinate the almonds, but no significant populations live near the fields, and collecting them elsewhere could deplete another ecosystem.

In a study published this year researchers from Williams's and Kremen's labs found that honeybees became even more effective pollinators of almond trees in the presence of both various native species and blue orchard bees, a managed species.

As the name indicates, the route is flat, circling around the almond / walnut orchards and rice fields.

I sub in honey for all the sugar and thought about making a crumble to go on top of it that is full of almonds and chopped nuts (walnuts since I live in a walnut orchard) I've also been making gluten free oatmeal with a spoon full of pumpkin puree for my little ones in the morning they've been digging that alot.

8 oz softened cream cheese, I used Philadelphia Cream Cheese 1/2 cup softened unsalted butter, I used Kerrygold 1/2 cup almond butter, I used Zinke Orchards (nothing but almonds in it!)

The next best thing to eating your almonds straight from the orchard, this one is for almond purists who want nothing but nuts.

Among the local ingredients used at this Pearl District shop: Oregon bing cherries for its Bing Cherry Almond Chip and hazelnut butter and toasted hazelnuts from orchards 20 miles away for its Willamette Valley Hazelnut.

The peaks are awe - inspiring, while the foothills offer moderate hiking challenges through orchards of almond and apricots, past Berber villages on pathways worn by donkeys, and up river valleys edged by juniper.

Offers include 7 - nights Walking from Cómpeta, one of Spain's famous, picturesque «white villages», set amidst olive groves, almond trees, orchard valleys with vineyards; Walking from San Telmo in the pretty southwest of Majorca; Walking the Moselle Trail with its castles, half - timbered houses and vineyards; A Tirolean Summer walking through delightful Alpine pastures and towering mountains; and Arosa Village in Switzerland.

In February, almond blossom coats the orchards with a pink haze and, from March onwards, the countryside is green and full of wild flowers.

With California's water levels beginning to hit record lows this spring, Singapore - based Olam International, Australia's largest almond producer, signed a deal to develop 1,480 acres of orchards in New South Wales.