Sentences with phrase «farm towns gave»

Women in Northern California farm towns gave birth to smaller babies if they lived within three miles of strawberry fields and other crops treated with the pesticide methyl bromide, according to researchers

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Rhodes grew up working on a farm at the Woodcrest Bruderhof in the town of Esopus and said that lifestyle gave him focus.

Town officials and community members from the Jefferson County towns of Cape Vincent and Lyme gave energy company BP a clear signal at a meeting last night in Cape Vincent: a wind farm isn't welcome there.

We must give our small towns, small businesses and family farms a chance to succeed and thrive.

On any given weekend, hiking clubs head out of town to explore tropical forests, climb hillsides, wander through cane fields and farms, scramble through boulder - choked gullies and follow coastal trails that lead over surf - washed bluffs to white - sand beaches.

Farms give way to arid station country as we pass through Paynes Find and the historic Murchison Goldfield towns of Mt Magnet and Cue.

As we were heading up the bumpy dirt road to Barton Creek we were fortunate enough to be able to give a lift to a Menonite man making his way back from town to his farm in the jungle, he was very friendly, soft - spoken, and humble but still was outgoing in his attempts to answer our awkward questions about his life and family.

A three - night stay would give you a second full day, allowing more time to do additional hikes, see more of the Park, or, perhaps, Hilo town and the waterfalls along the Hāmākua Coast, or the Ka «ū District, with its black and green sand beaches and coffee farms, or lower Puna, the main town in which, Pāhala, mostly avoided being run over by lava flows from Kīlauea's East Rift Zone (ERZ) vent, Pu`u «Ō «ō, in 2014; currently, the ERZ flows are approachable from the unpaved emergency road, on rented bicycles, then, by hiking up the pali («steep hill» in Hawaiian).

Then, to wrap things up, we stopped in at Hood River Organic near the riverside town of Hood River, an organic orchard and farm run by East Coast ex-pat Dan Thall, who gave us a tour of his land.

Buffelshoek is a farm with unique wildlife and a rich history, perfectly situated just 20 km outside the town Cradock; far enough to give secluded privacy and quietness and near enough to quickly get something in to...

Given that, they were somewhat receptive to the idea that there would be more farms and more open space for trails, etc. if the town's population of 2500 lived in two towers instead of being spread across miles of single - family homes.

For example, Pacific Hydro, which has built a wind farm near my home town, Crystal Brook, gives $ 50 000 each year for community projects for the life of the wind farm.

Justin's clients include investors, developers, builders, religious trusts and corporate entities across industries with a broad spectrum of property interests — from wind farms to golf courses, manufacturing facilities to film studios, from rail infrastructure to air ports, from swimming pool developments to corporate headquarters and residential developments, town centres, schools and sporting facilities - giving Justin a wealth of knowledge and experience to draw upon.

While she was born and raised in Calgary, Bishop says she's looking at buying a farm just outside the city, and is «genuinely curious about whether or not I'd want to practice in the city or out of the city, and so I'm hoping this will give me some direction about whether we'd move closer to the city or closer to a small town.»