Not exact matches
The largest chunk of agricultural output — 61 percent — comes from America's «corporate»
farms, operations that
usually produce a single commodity under contract with a consolidated firm.
It's a great way to get the freshest
produce possible since it
usually comes directly from a local
farm instead of being shipped to your supermarket.
I love kale, and the farmer's market in Corvallis
produces a great variety of it (Denison
Farm usually produces the most delicate).
At the beginning of the summer
farm shares
usually produce lots of greens.
As such, organic
farms — which tend to use the healthiest soil —
usually produce the tastiest and most nutritious cabbages.
These are
usually produced in vast factory «
farms» with upwards of 500,000 birds in one facility.
And even when the sicknesses and / or death from E. Coli occur from vegetables, this is
usually caused by runoff from a factory corn - fed beef
farm that contaminated
produce at a downstream
farm.
Produce supplied by local
farms is
usually in season, recently picked, and has a short transport time.
The brilliance is that it allows for multiple animal and plant species to be raised on the same surface area: while a well - run polyculture
farm usually produces far fewer pigs than say, a pig factory
farm, it has the potential to
produce far more biomass on the same surface area.
Puppy mills are essentially «factory
farms» that mass -
produce puppies,
usually sold at wholesale prices, to retail pet stores.
Puppy and kitten mills are
usually homes or
farms where people collect and breed dogs and cats with the single goal of
producing as many animals as possible in order to maximize profit.
63 Wind Advantages: Disadvantages: Wind is free Wind Advantages: Wind is free Wind
farms require no fuel
Produces no waste or greenhouse gases The land beneath can
usually still be used for
farming, It's a good method of supplying energy to remote areas Disadvantages: The wind is not always predictable.
We
usually make sandwiches and stop at a local
farm to pick up fresh
produce and goodies to go with it!