Sentences with phrase «as a farming community»

As a farming community which engages in cocoa and crop farming and also share borders with la Cote d'Ivoire, the first lady called on the people of Bia West to join forces with government to work together to ensure that farms are not worked by any labour that is believed to be trafficked or involving child labour.

Established in 1823 as a farming community, we remain a community that is a rich rural area with many picturesque dairy and fruit farms, producing some of the finest fruits and vegetables in the USA.

Following World War I, Palmer began as a farming community and agriculture remains central to the area, with approximately 75 % of the state's agricultural output coming from the Mat - Su Valley.

Abundant natural resources and arable land suggest that Pickering originated as a farming community until the Norman Conquest in the eleventh century when a castle and church were built, around which the town grew.

San Gimignano's position amongst an array of fertile hills ensured that the town became rich primarily as a farming community.

The cell will serve 1,500 people living in the village as well as farming communities about 30 km away.

It is the most - populous incorporated town in the U.S. and has a long history as a farming community.

About... Like many cities in the American Midwest, Mansfield started as a farming community, became a significant railroad hub and then manufacturing center.

Located on the Merrimack River, it began as a farming community of Puritans, largely from Newbury Plantation.

Not exact matches

When Wattpad launched in 2006 as an online — and now mobile — community for readers and writers to share free books, CEO Allen Lau and his team were working out of a drab cubicle farm in Toronto's north end, with bankers and accountants for neighbours.

Many dead retail spaces, Williamson says, will most likely morph into businesses that have community functions, such as apartments, public libraries, indoor farms, and refrigerated spaces for processing food for local restaurants or grocery stores.

As a reputable capital provider and land investment partner, HCI Ventures works closely with farmers and the farming community to support the sustainable growth and livelihood of agriculture in Western Canada.

Palm Beach is different from nearby Wellington, where people like Rosemary Phelan (heir to the Cara food empire) have horse farms; and from nearby Windsor, which Hilary and Galen Weston put on the map; and from Lost Tree, the gated community a half - hour north of Palm Beach where such eminences as Jack Welch (of former GE fame) and Toronto mayor John Tory have winter lairs.

We're also witnessing some questionable and unsubstantiated statements coming from the Bitcoin mining farm community such as this quote from Chinese mining farm magnate Chandler Guo who states

We are pleased that this commitment has been recognized: Iroquois Valley Farms obtained Certified B Corporation status in 2012; this certification is managed by the independent non-profit B Labs, which awarded Iroquois Valley as «B Corps Best for Community» in 2014 and «B Corps Best for the World» in 2016 and 2017.

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP)-- As plans for strip malls and new residential communities stalled in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, with weeds instead of houses sprouting in former farm fields, developers in Delaware were having a hard time paying off millions of dollars in construction loans owed to Wilmington Trust.

Our delegation had begun to waver again as we neared the tower of Schuller's Garden Grove Community Church, rising above Disneyland and the Anaheim Stadium and Knott's Berry Farm.

The local habitation for much of his life was Salem, Massachusetts, with important chapters elsewhere: as a boy along the idyllic shores of Lake Sebago, Maine; as a student at Maine's Bowdoin College; as a young idealist at the Brook Farm Utopian community west of Boston (1841); as a married man in Emerson's Concord (1842 — 45); as a summer neighbor of Herman Melville in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts (1850); as a mature writer and consular official in Liverpool, England (1853 — 58); and as a traveler and resident in Italy (1858 — 59)-- before a final period of ill health and death in Concord (1859 — 1864).

Surrounded as he was by a well - kept farm and a community of friends, I sometimes had the sense that in his view life was almost too good.

As the hitherto protected agricultural sector of the South is, in compliance with the requirements of the GATT Final Act, opened up to imports (mainly from the North) and as land laws are revised to facilitate corporate farming, there will inevitably be large - scale displacement of such communitieAs the hitherto protected agricultural sector of the South is, in compliance with the requirements of the GATT Final Act, opened up to imports (mainly from the North) and as land laws are revised to facilitate corporate farming, there will inevitably be large - scale displacement of such communitieas land laws are revised to facilitate corporate farming, there will inevitably be large - scale displacement of such communities.

The Slavs, known here as the Wends, were the successors of the invading barbarians from many centuries previously, and were now there farming on the east side of the Elbe — and a surviving Wend community still holds together in twentieth - century East Germany.

It stands for community - supported agriculture and is also known as a farm share.

Indeed, universities and agribusiness companies have been telling farmers for years that the only way to survive is to «get bigger or get out,» and because the only way to get bigger is to take over the neighbor's farm it is difficult to feel much community when everyone is seen as a potential threat.

As a result, an anaerobic digester was built in 2008 as a non-profit organization that provides compost for the Werkhoven Farm (as well as donated to the community), produces energy for over 300 customers in the Puget Sound and valuable biosolids while reducing manure applications to the soiAs a result, an anaerobic digester was built in 2008 as a non-profit organization that provides compost for the Werkhoven Farm (as well as donated to the community), produces energy for over 300 customers in the Puget Sound and valuable biosolids while reducing manure applications to the soias a non-profit organization that provides compost for the Werkhoven Farm (as well as donated to the community), produces energy for over 300 customers in the Puget Sound and valuable biosolids while reducing manure applications to the soias well as donated to the community), produces energy for over 300 customers in the Puget Sound and valuable biosolids while reducing manure applications to the soias donated to the community), produces energy for over 300 customers in the Puget Sound and valuable biosolids while reducing manure applications to the soil.

She came to Rodale Institute after most recently serving as Farm Manager of the Community Farm of Simsbury, an Incubator Farmer Program for emerging farmers.

«As a family owned and operated company, Maple Lodge Farms takes pride in actively supporting our surrounding communities that have helped us grow throughout the years,» the company notes.

The Chain Collaborative developed a micro-finance program in partnership with ADIBOC / XEPECUL to provide business and administrative training to coffee farming communities in Guatemala, as well as provide loan options to women entrepreneurs.

Maple Lodge Farms supports a number of community youth sports programs as well as food drives through its Maple Lodge Farms Foundation.

Our business is built on long - term relationships with Certified Organic and Fair Trade co-operatives as well as conventional farms that focus on improving their communities, their families, and their environment.

At the same time, we have to show we're edgy and also part of the farm - to - table movement, and you see that throughout the menus as we connect with the local community and farmers.»

Judith has been involved as an advocate for family farmers for many years and serves as an advisor or on the Board of several organizations (Community Alliance with Family Farmers, California Agriculture Climate Action Network, State of California Environmental Farming Science Advisory Panel and the Capay Valley Volunteer Fire Department).

Through her responsibilities in the FAMU Cooperative Extension Program, Taylor has made a major impact on the organic farming community in North Florida through growing initiatives such as the various growers» markets in the Tallahassee community, bio-fuels awareness and development, and many sustainable agriculture initiatives to support limited - resource farmers and their families.

I prefer to eat local food, sourced as close to the farm as possible: I get fresher food, I help support the nearby farming community, and it tastes amazing.

As numerous cities make energy choices to tackle climate change, so too should municipalities invest in farm - to - hospital and farm - to - school programs that deliver healthier food and strengthen rural communities while emitting fewer greenhouse gases.

Certified California Sustainable Winegrowing and other statewide and regional programs such as Bay Area Green Business Program, Fish Friendly Farming, Lodi Rules, Napa Green and Sustainability in Practice (SIP) play an important role in the California wine community's efforts to produce high quality wine that is environmentally sound, socially equitable and economically feasible.

Certified California Sustainable Winegrowing and other statewide and regional programs such as Bay Area Green Business Program, Fish Friendly Farming, Lodi Rules, Napa Green and Sustainability in Practice (SIP) play vital roles in the California wine community's successful efforts to produce high quality wine that is environmentally sound, economically feasible and socially responsible.

Bringing total participation to 43 percent, another 4,500 vineyard acres in 2014 underwent the first step, completion of a comprehensive sustainability self - assessment of 138 farming and business practices, such as water management, pesticide use, energy efficiency, carbon emissions, employee safety and community relations.

Certified California Sustainable Winegrowing and other statewide and regional programs such as Fish Friendly Farming, Bay Area Green Business Program, Lodi Rules, Napa Green and Sustainability in Practice (SIP) play an important role in the California wine community's efforts to produce high quality wine that is environmentally sound, economically feasible and socially equitable.

Australian Organic will continue to stand up for and look after our farmer member interests to ensure they are able to live and farm within their communities and do not bear the brunt of anti-GMO — as opposed to pro-organic — campaigning.

In deploying a comprehensive strategy, Starbucks is improving the resilience of our supply chain and ensuring the long - term supply of high - quality coffees, as well as building stronger, enduring farming communities for generations to come.

As members of a thriving family - farming community here in Northern California, we have always enjoyed buying produce directly from local organic farms at farmers» markets.

The Historic Independence Schoolhouse, built as a one - room schoolhouse in 1909 for the local farming community, has since been updated and now houses the tasting room where Tangent is poured along with its sister wineries from the Niven Family.

Noted by Parade Magazine as a chef who «takes the whole farm - to - table trend to a whole new level,» Lindsay's talent at creating harvest - centric cuisine is revered by national media outlets and the DC community.

The Historic Independence Schoolhouse, built as a one - room schoolhouse in 1909 for the local farming community, has since been updated and now houses the tasting room where the portfolio of Niven Family wines are poured.

As proposed in point 3, the definition of «Intensive Animal Husbandry» must exclude small - scale, low stocking density, free - range farms, and any buffers should be developed in collaboration with the local community on a case - by - case basis.

So while AFSA strongly supports the need to recognize agriculture as the priority activity in the Farming Zone, we see a need to offer more flexibility to enable farms to construct suitable dwellings for the rich community of workers needed to manage these systems, where those dwellings are genuinely built in support of agricultural purposes.

And so as the Polyfaces, White Oaks, Gunthorps, Jonai, Buena Vistas, and Old Mill farms of the world toil to grow food deeply embedded in our local communities and imbued with their values of respect for people and animals and care for the land, we must support them / us, just as we must find ways to help others get onto the land to grow more food in small - scale agroecological systems.

The Historic Independence Schoolhouse, built as a one - room schoolhouse in 1909 for the local farming community, has since been updated and now houses the tasting room where Baileyana is poured along with its sister wineries from the Niven Family.

The Country News, with an audited circulation of 55,000 is aimed at the farming community in the Goulburn Valley and surrounding regions, and is included as an insert in the Shepparton News, Riverine Herald (Echuca), Seymour Telegraph, Cobram Courier, McIvor Times (Heathcote), Pastoral Times (Deniliquin), Benalla Ensign, Euroa Gazette, Southern Riverina News (Finley), Kyabram Free Press and the Campaspe Valley News (Rochester).

In California The Fairmont San Francisco and The Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn are supporting local agricultural studies by purchasing two student - raised hogs from the Sonoma Valley High School Agriculture Department so that they can make their own sausages, bacon and dried meats, as well as support local schools and help strengthen the regional farming community.