Sentences with phrase «farming land in the area»

Roy's family has been farming land in the area since 1906, the year his grandfather arrived from England by boat, train and ultimately horse.

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A year into the project, the weedy field has a compost heap full of organic waste from the kitchen; a growing orchard with biblical fruit trees including a fig and an apple; a Havdalah circle where visitors and residents of the farm gather weekly for a religious ceremony marking the end of Shabbat; and a shmitta area — a part of the land that is allowed to lie fallow for one year out of every seven, as commanded in the Torah.

«The situation is often very acute in areas where there is conflict because they have to flee and they leave everything, they can't farm their land and take care of their livestock».

The area the Palestinians are fighting for was originally all in Jordan, but if one man loses his farm, and then loses his family while they are fighting for their land, what do you expect him to do?

When people in Brazil are persuaded by their government to migrate away from the coastal areas to take up farming on a plot of land in Amazonia, they cause great destruction.

Had it not been for the dedicated farmers who live in the area, this rich farming land and heritage may not exist today.

Even if 60 % of agriculture would convert to organic farming, concentrated feed were reduced by 50 % and food waste by 50 %, it would result in a food system with significantly decreased environmental impacts, including lower overall greenhouse gas emissions, and only a marginal increase in agricultural land area.

It should be noted that IRRI's high - yielding varieties and farming technologies have enabled increases in production per land area for farmers and made rice generally more affordable for consumers.

5 Land area is extrapolated from data in 2011 Ethical Sourcing Factsheet stating that at least 102,000 ha are set aside for conservation on Starbucks» suppliers farms, and that represents about 23 % of total area verified under CAFE Practices.

«There are places in the world where fish farming is best suited and there are places where the production of beef is best suited and particularly through out northern Australia, not only northern Australia but through out the country, where beef production can be an efficient way of utilising that product that's produced naturally in the grass lands, so beef production will remain in those areas.

So why are the neighbors complaining about the land - use plan for what is now the Hoffman Farm, next to a residential area of Cary, but newly annexed by Lake in the Hills?

After Lake in the Hills annexed the land with plans for a commercial strip and gravel mine, the Cary Park District announced the $ 11.5 million deal to buy the farm and turn it into a recreation area.

They watch people put up building anyhow anywhere anytime without regard for waterlogged areas and farming lands in sprawls.

The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) claims the plans ignore the losses country businesses could suffer and said farmers would face greater liability for farm animals and buildings not designed for public use in areas where no access previously existed.

It is embedded within a farm settlement of 4,000 hectares of the 11,496 hectares of land we are developing in the Ago Owu area.

She expressed concern that if something was not urgently done to enable farmers access to their farm land this year, there may be serious hunger in the area next year.

Still, smaller orangutan populations in deforested areas of Borneo — due to logging or conversion to farm land — experienced the severest rates of decline, up to a 75 percent drop in one region.

Ngong Hills Wind Farm in Nairobi, Kenya, sited close to where there is significant demand for electricity (Nairobi) and near existing infrastructure, is a good example of multiple land uses for recreation (a popular hiking area for locals), energy generation, and livestock grazing.

So he started out by replanting the land according to a system of natural succession — eventually reforesting the entire area and turning it into an incredibly biodiverse yet productive working farm which, it's claimed, has actually altered the microclimate around it in the form of increased rainfall and lower temperatures.

In fact, while cotton only makes up 3 % of the total farmed land area, it accounts for 25 % of the insecticides and 10 % of the pesticides used worldwide, making it one of the most chemically treated crops.

I grew up in a conservative working - class family who had left its roots in farming communities of Ontario to travel to Hamilton, Toronto and other large metropolitan areas (where my dad landed a job as manager of Eastern Canada for Philips Electronics and brought us temporarily into the middle class).

Unless you live in a suburban area or farm land where you need a 4WD, wouldn't recommend it.

After World War II, Land Rover noticed a need for a dual - purpose vehicle that could be used in rural areas for farming and chores, as well as regular transportation.

The typical home would be more like what you'd find in the outskirts of most cities, the unincorporated areas, with 10 acres of land, a couple of horses, a farm cat, chickens, no automobile, and such.

Animals used on farms make up the majority of those raised and used by humans, with an estimated 33 billion land animals alive at any given time.18 This estimate is more exact than any other we will consider, since governments conduct counts of livestock in order to understand and regulate local economies.19 However, this is a somewhat similar undercounting to what we saw for lab animals: fish and shellfish are not counted, and in some areas they are raised for consumption in large numbers.20 The estimates also neglect other animals used for food, such as wild fish or commonly hunted land animals, although these animals may be affected by some of the advocacy aimed at helping farmed animals through promoting diet change.

His family moved here in 1980 when the area was not much more farm land.

Luckily I live in a rural area with lots of farm land close by but I have spent many hours searching for a hunting hound or two.

It sits in a vast swathe of land only 20 miles north east of the capital and a few minutes» drive from the A1, encompassing formal and informal gardens complete with a maze, a children's farm and play area, endless acres of rolling countryside to lose yourself in and even its own 12th century church.

Bellevue Manor Guesthouse & Spa is centrally situated in the heart of the wine lands on a boutique wine farm estate, just outside Stellenbosch, next to Technopark Business Area.

O'o Farms is an 8.5 - acre organic farm in the lovely Waipoli forest area in upcountry Maui, producing numerous crops on virgin land and in greenhouses.

The Storytellers is a self - catering glamping site located on an organic farm which is made up of 2.8 ha of land nestled at the back of De Pakhuys Guest Farm in the heart of the world - famous Rocklands bouldering arefarm which is made up of 2.8 ha of land nestled at the back of De Pakhuys Guest Farm in the heart of the world - famous Rocklands bouldering areFarm in the heart of the world - famous Rocklands bouldering area...

Sir David Attenborough said this area also has the cleanest body of water in the world due to the lack of agricultural farming, industrial industries and lack of land clearing and degradation.

As it seeks to expand its infrastructure to support those workloads, Microsoft is pursuing a hybrid strategy in which it builds state - of - the - art data centers in areas where land and power are cheap, and leases third - party wholesale space in key markets where it is expensive to build and operate large server farms.

Once you get enough money, you can essentially purchase much of the town's land and build as many different farms as your feel, designating one area to animals, another to growing crops, or just setting up a vacation home up in the mountains.

The farm was in a rich agricultural area of Dutch farmers, a strip of land on the south shore of Lake Ontario which was a fruit belt of apples, peaches, and cherries.

Our land's highest, best use is probably a mixture of solar farms in the driest and poorest areas which concentrate water by runoff onto neighboring land used either to return to nature and grow grass (with cows optional) to sequester carbon by building soil and / or be periodically harvested to provide feed for cellulosic ethanol.

doesn't that make for more crop failures, more expensive food, a shift to higher value cash crops (which may have lower food value or feed fewer but wealthier people), and a shift of agricultural areas away from the equator, resulting in costly changes in farm viability and land use?

Unfortunately, the water and soil in some areas of the city has been irreparably damaged due to coal mining, and the land is no longer suitable for farming.

The OWEZ wind farm was in an area with relatively few flying birds because of its distance from land.

Whilst this is partly true, that the increase of wind farms can overtake and disturbs the view our amazing landscapes, it is important to remember that in the majority of cases, wind farms are strictly prohibited to one side of a road, land area or region; therefore still allowing our landscapes to be mainly untouched, and display its natural beauty.

In new Zealand our last government committed us to it and the present one supports that with the absurd result that as a clean, green nuclear free country with four and a half million population on a land - mass nearly the size of Britain we are buying carbon credits from Russia, who are classed better environmentally than us, pollution, dodgy power stations, doubtful farming, the lot, as their population / area ratio is lower!

The Germans invested in offshore wind farms because the wind blows constantly at sea and no land area is needed.

They are considered suitable for determining differences and similarities in the soil characteristics of land areas greater than approximately 1 ha and can be used for planning on the level of farms and forests.

That year for the first time, «unusual high waves» in the Indian Ocean inundated a quarter of the urban area on the capital island of Male», flooded farms, and washed away reclaimed land.

But as population will also rise, along with pressure on existing farm and rangeland, so will the risk that ever greater areas of the drylands will become degraded and, in effect, desert lands.

If the World warms, vast areas of land in the Northern Hemisphere, currently too cold to farm effectively will become available and other areas will improve in productivity.

A friend of mine grew up in Montana in an area of dry land farming.

The Galloway Gazette — March 17, 2014 The Scottish Government is being called on to act now to protect wild lands as a survey reveals that wind farms in mountain areas are damaging a key area of tourism.

Barbara Fraser writes in The Daily Climate that «experts predict that climate change will exacerbate water scarcity, increasing conflicts between competing users, pitting city dwellers against rural residents, people in dry lands against those in areas with abundant rainfall and Andean mining companies against neighboring farm communities.»

To gain experience administering shared solar, Duke proposes to start relatively small, with 2 megawatts of solar on farms up to 75 miles from potential subscribers — maximizing both cheap land and the ability to recruit customers in urban areas.