Sentences with phrase «by small farms»

Authorities say the remote group likely numbers around 200 members, living in traditionally built huts, called malocas, surrounded by small farms of nuts, banana, and corn.

Climate change will further exacerbate the risks facing agriculture in Africa, which is dominated by small farms with few assets and limited capacities to adapt.

His work focuses on organic and sustainable agriculture systems suitable for adoption by small farms operating with limited resources.

Not exact matches

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.

According to the Dairy Farmers of Ontario, a hectolitre of milk produced on a small farm requires 1.94 total hours of labour, whereas on a large farm (still pretty rinky - dink by U.S. standards), only 0.81 total hours are required.

TWO multi-million dollar abalone farms are being set up for the first time in WA in the small South West seaside resort of Bremer Bay — recently hard hit by the closure of the pilchard fishing industry by Bremer Fish Processors.

CCPCs can be created by owners of stores, restaurants, farms or other typical small businesses, but they can also be used by doctors, lawyers and some other professionals as a way to incorporate their business activities.

We began planning for this reduction (and also SS taking a hit) decades ago by pouring a lot of money into our small farm.

In announcing the Local Food Act, Dix was joined by New Democrat agriculture critic Nicholas Simons, small business critic Lana Popham, Farm to Cafeteria Canada national manager Joanne Bays, FarmFolk CityFolk executive director Nicholas Scapillati, and local farmers.

The latest ABS projections, based on Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) estimates, indicate that farm GDP fell by around 30 per cent over the year to the June quarter 2003, subtracting a little under 1 percentage point from GDP growth, which is a slightly smaller subtraction than previously expected.

Rather than obtaining meat from animals raised on environmentally destructive factory farms and slaughtered in filthy slaughterhouses, clean meat is produced by taking a small sample of animal cells and replicating them in a culture outside of the animal.

The Sinaloa cartel farms out most production of opium paste to smaller traffickers, according to growers, law enforcement and drug - trafficking experts interviewed by the AP.

Religion was invented by human beings during the Neolithic period, that's the time frame where humans went from roaming hunter gatherer groups to small permanent farming villages.

Government policies should favor much smaller farms worked by owners who care for the land.

For generations the Israelites clung, as it were, by their eyebrows to a small section of the hill country of Ephraim amid bitter enemies — Ammonites and Moabites, to the east; the Philistines invading the seacoast lands to the west; the Amorites still possessing a score of strong towns and the farm lands around them.

In a larger sense, however, Berry's work must be counted a failure, As in the effort to get Americans to protect the climate, small victories have been overwhelmed by crushing losses, As Berry points out in the opening essay, America now has half the number of farms it had in 1977.

By Mary Mesenburg, Door to Door Organics Not only does food grown on a nearby farm leave a smaller carbon footprint and support the local economy, but I believe it also tastes better and is better for you than food... Continued

And yet by conflating all sizes and types of pig and poultry farms into one category, the package of reforms released by the NSW Government presents a major risk to the future of small - scale free - range pig and poultry farming.

Takes me back to my childhood in upstate NY, where our small community was surrounded by farms and apple orchards.

Grown on small Amish family farms, it is husked and shelled by hand much the same way as it was done 100 years ago.

Pennington Farms focuses on cultivating harder - to - grow heirloom berries, which typically produce fewer, smaller berries that must be picked by hand.

The wine list is carefully curated by owner / chef / sommelier Danny Lledó and combines Old and New World Wines, emphasizing small producers and vineyards that adhere to sustainable farming practices.

AzTex Pepper Farms has a small office in the middle of town in an historic Fredericksburg building sharing its back yard with one of the «Sunday Houses» that were built by German settlers in the middle 1800s.

Bloomery SweetShine grows fruits, roots and nuts to make artisan cordials by hand and sources what it does not grow from other small farms nearby.

Fairtrade - certified vanilla indicates that it was grown by small - scale farmers in developing countries who receive a fair price and use sustainable farming practices.

MASIPAG has been establishing local seed banks and trial farms protected and cared by small farmers to help them cope with climate change.

Some smaller farms may not be certified organic by the USDA, however, they withhold extremely high quality standards.

Our «farm» is a little smaller than yours — think 20 feet by 20 feet But we share in the seed catalog excitement and the anticipation of growing our own!

Rather than obtaining meat from animals raised on environmentally destructive factory farms and slaughtered in filthy slaughterhouses, clean meat is produced by taking a small sample of animal cells and replicating them in a culture outside of the animal.

The importance of this transparency is borne out by Coombe Farm, winner of the Soil Association's Best of Organic Market award for best small organic retailer.

The Healthy Traditions Apple Cider Vinegar is made by hand on a small family farm in Wisconsin.

Gaia Estate (Finca Bosques de Gaia)-- This small, 18 - ha farm owned by Jefferson Shriver and Gabriela Navarez is located outside the familiar central highlands of Nicaragua, south of the capital Managua near Diriamba, Carazo department.

And while Kraft deserves some credit, as none of the other Big Coffee companies is making this type of effort, real environmental preservation and fair prices for farmers is far, far better served by purchasing sustainable coffees from small companies and roasters with relationships with their suppliers, especially those that provide information on the specific farms where their beans are sourced.

By establishing close relationships with carefully selected local farms and small producers, Fossil Farms ensures that all meats are of the highest quality and authentically natfarms and small producers, Fossil Farms ensures that all meats are of the highest quality and authentically natFarms ensures that all meats are of the highest quality and authentically natural.

This dessert was inspired by a large basket of spring strawberries from Fall Creek Farm in Granbury, Texas, where Cullen and Ashley Crisp's mantras are «the smaller, the sweeter» and «the redder, the better.»

With certified sustainable vineyards and winery under the strict standards of the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance program created by the Wine Institute and the California Association of Winegrape Growers, Palumbo Family Vineyards & Winery is committed to small lot, handcrafted wines from varieties that are grown on small block, sustainably farmed vineyards.

By partnering with a collective of small farms, we're able to deliver you the best products for less than $ 6 per meal.

Daniel Peterson cupped beans from all over the farm, and discovered the pleasant citrusy flavor present in the mixed beans from the farm as a whole were being flavored by some outstanding beans from a 50 hectare plot in one small valley at the high end (1550 m) of the farm: the Esmeralda Especial.

They're not only made of love but from love — hand - grown on approximately 5,000 small, family farms throughout Central and Southern California, by growers who nurture the fruit in the tree for over a year.

Among the changes is a reduction of the premium costs by nearly 70 percent for small and medium sized farms and making more farms eligible for these lower premiums.

It's small, only about a block, but it's lined with fruit and vegetable vendors, a hummus stand, fresh flowers, farm chicken eggs and most days I'll stop by before or after lunch (and occasionally I'll just grab my lunch there).

Tim is a chef by trade — with a bit of building maintenance thrown in — but they were both keen to farm so they took the leap, starting with a very small patch, some seeds and a poly tunnel.

SIX SEASONS by Joshua McFadden A NYC chef who left the city to work on a small farm, Joshua McFadden will make you look at your vegetables in an entirely new fashion after reading his cookbook, which he co-authored with Martha Holmberg.

Organic agriculture — identified as a package of intelligent and innovative farming techniques, sustainable and fair food chains based on principles that strengthen small - scale farmers and empower rural economies - are being adopted globally by governments and local authorities, carried out by millions of farmers and supported by a rapidly increasing number of consumers.

The Arabica beans are grown on around 600 mainly small farms and picked by hand before undergoing wet - processing.

Family farmers, small and especially innovative food distributors and the nation's eaters are best served not by the quasi-monopoly of a grocery market controlled by the supermarket duopoly and its unscrupulous fellow travellers that engage in the alleged slave - like farm labour practices, but by a freed market.

By the 1970s, the typical landscape of small family dairy farming in Northern California had shifted dramatically.

The Business: Featured on Sydney Weekender, and in numerous publications such as: Garlic by Penny Woodward; Transition Farms by Bev Buckley; The Land newspaper; Small Farms and Border Living magazines,» Carrigbyrne» has been a thriving organic garlic business for the past 26 years, with a large customer base of both retail businesses and individuals from Melbourne to Darwin.

Clean meat is created by growing meat outside of an animal from a small cell sample, eliminating the need for factory farming and slaughter.

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.