Sentences with phrase «centers around a farm»

A sweeping tale of changing times in Scotland in the early 20th century, Terence Davies's new film Sunset Song centers around a farm girl Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn) in the fictional rural town of Kinraddie near Aberdeen.

Salem's economy is still centered around farming and agricultural processing but, as the state capital, it has seen its economy diversify into several other important business sectors.

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AWS runs huge data center farms around the world (another just opened in Ohio), and rents out all that firepower to customers who see its services as a way to augment or even replace their own data centers.

In her best - selling 2014 novel California, Edan Lepucki briefly describes the fictional Plank College, a free two - year liberal arts program that centers around a Great Books curriculum while teaching its all - male students how to farm.

The men of Scripture — Abraham, Isaac, Sampson, Daniel, Jesus, Peter, Paul — are men of action whose occupations centered around physical labor like farming, shepherding, carpentry, tent - making, and fighting animals with their bare hands.

Yesterday my day centered around picking up our weekly CSA share at the local farm.

Coffee embodies Jamaica and has a meaningful impact on the farmers who work for us, the people in the processing center and the local community around the farm.

The Organic Center's study takes farms from around the nation into account and looks at the most accurate measure of carbon sequestration.

The 2014 program schedule included: culinary demonstrations centered around adventurous flavors and new menu trends; presentations and panel discussions focused on sustainable agricultural practices, the role of wheat in our diet vs. seekers of gluten - free options, and water issues affecting food production; discussions on how American menus are often shaped by millennials, health and nutrition concerns, and global cuisines; a Friday field trip to the CIA Farm in St. Helena and through Marin and Sonoma Counties to visit Pozzi Ranch, Dutton Ranch (where Valley Ford Cheese Company joined), and Gourmet Mushrooms with tastings and presentations by the farmers as well as farm bureau and land trust experts; and the exciting and interactive Saturday Market Basket Exercise, where attendees were divided into six teams to develop menu concepts using sponsor products for the following categorFarm in St. Helena and through Marin and Sonoma Counties to visit Pozzi Ranch, Dutton Ranch (where Valley Ford Cheese Company joined), and Gourmet Mushrooms with tastings and presentations by the farmers as well as farm bureau and land trust experts; and the exciting and interactive Saturday Market Basket Exercise, where attendees were divided into six teams to develop menu concepts using sponsor products for the following categorfarm bureau and land trust experts; and the exciting and interactive Saturday Market Basket Exercise, where attendees were divided into six teams to develop menu concepts using sponsor products for the following categories:

This book centers around the structural and economic changes in rice farming that have occurred in the Philippines during the past five decades.

Staal grewup on his family's sod farm in Thunder Bay, Ont., and like the three brothersdestined to follow him into the NHL - defenseman Marc, 19, may play for the NewYork Rangers next season; center Jordan, 17, should be drafted in the top fivethis Saturday; and 15 - year - old Jared is on track to develop into a pro-caliberwinger-he began driving the tractor at around age six, rolling sod (the pay: $ 5an hour, with yearly increases of a buck, only slightly less than a Stanley Cupshare).

The event took place on Saturday, January 27, 2018, and the discussion centered around: the 2018 Farm Bill, specialty crops, horticulture and the Farm to School Program.

More than 100 volunteers have served on nine committees to gather information on proposed improvements to district parks and their facilities, including building natural and local history exhibits at Peck Farm; building athletic fields and environmental study areas; constructing a new swimming pool; repairing the retaining wall around Island Park on the Fox River; renovating old playgrounds and building new ones; restoring tennis courts and building new ones; and expanding the community center.

Greg's U-Pick Farm, located at 9270 Lapp Road in Clarence Center and owned by the Sandy and Greg Spoth, is one of the most popular spots around.

Instead of a society focused on dairy farming, and poorly adapted for the Arctic climate, as previously thought, the new findings imply a community centered instead around hunting and trading.

Wonder if the future superfund sites will be centered around the huge broiler chicken factory farms.

Researchers around the world at sites like the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico are studying how to improve crops and farming techniques to address worldwide hunger.

The Stone Boy is a beautiful and tragic film centering around a twelve year - old boy, Arnold, who lives on a farm in Montana with his brother, Eugene, sister, Nora, and parents, Joe and Ruth.

The movie centers around a 15 - year - old boy on his quest to capture a fugitive bank robber and collect the bounty on her head, all with the goal of saving his family farm from foreclosure.

Based on a true story, this chilling novel set in a bleak 19th - century Iceland centers around a mysterious woman who is accused of murder and sent off to an isolated farm to await her execution.

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In addition to lazing around on the beach, you can take boat tours of the surrounding islands, indulge yourself at a chocolate farm tour at Up in the Hill on Isla Bastimentos, or go scuba diving with the PADI 5 Star Dive Center, La Buga Dive & Surf.

Your first missions in the game center on helping out around the farm, and eventually branch out to other towns and areas where you'll do everything from breaking horses and herding cattle to bounty hunting criminals and, finally, wrapping up what you were sent to do in the first place.

«It was sort of getting off the grid» before it was fashionable, says Hayes, who learned her way around the natural world through a life centered on farm work and horse riding.

The story centers on Agritopia, a Phoenix exurb that is «one of a growing number of so - called agrihoods, residential developments where a working farm is the central feature, in the same way that other communities may cluster around a golf course, pool or fitness center.»

Most of it is not useful for solar or wind farms, said Chris Barton, director of the University of Kentucky Appalachian Center, but around «100,000 acres of land would probably be suitable.»

Whether they are called agricultural urbanism or something else, the new residential / farming communities typically promote organic farming, preserve large areas of open green space and cluster residential development around town centers in view of the farm.