Sentences with phrase «from abandoned farms»

Harmony Hammond's work uses materials — such as latex rubber, linoleum, straw, leaves and hair, and weathered objects from abandoned farms — that act as visual metaphors for desire, violence, place and the effects of time, foul weather and foul play.

Combining oil paint, canvas, and paper with non-traditional materials such as latex rubber, linoleum, straw, leaves, and hair, along with weathered objects salvaged from abandoned farms, she constructs works that occupy a space between painting and sculpture while hinting at transgressions and violence within the domestic setting.

Not exact matches

As a result the coffee industry in Ecuador is still in recovery from 1200 coffee farms that were abandoned after the crash of 2000.

His parents abandoned him at age four in the Vermont town of Danville, and thereafter Ron Sr. bounced from farm to farm, from family to family, from Lyndonville, Vt., to St. Johnsbury, Vt., to Coventry, Conn..

The abandoning of farms, the creation of reservoirs, and the preservation of the remaining open land resulted in scenic lands that drew large amounts of tourism from New York City.

In response, the Norse turned from their struggling farms to the sea for food before finally abandoning their settlements.

Dow used genetic analysis to trace the parentage of 282 individual acorns collected from three mother trees in a single stand of bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) on an abandoned farm in northern Illinois.

From this perspective, foragers either joined farming cultures or abandoned their home territories and scattered elsewhere.

But once the local forest is gone, income from timber typically dries up, the researchers believe; many farms and cattle ranches are abandoned after a few years because the nutrient - poor soil rapidly becomes depleted.

Lithia, FL About Blog We are a pair of techno - geek escapees from the cubical farms of Corporate IT who abandoned the hussle and bussle of the Magic City for a simpler life.

Lithia, FL About Blog We are a pair of techno - geek escapees from the cubical farms of Corporate IT who abandoned the hussle and bussle of the Magic City for a simpler life.

Moving from the tempered calm of contemporary Madison, Wisconsin to the seedy underbelly of early twentieth century New York, we come face to face with a haunting piece of America's past: From 1854 to 1929 orphan trains from New York transported 150,000 to 200,000 destitute, orphaned or abandoned children across the country to find homes on farms in the Midwfrom the tempered calm of contemporary Madison, Wisconsin to the seedy underbelly of early twentieth century New York, we come face to face with a haunting piece of America's past: From 1854 to 1929 orphan trains from New York transported 150,000 to 200,000 destitute, orphaned or abandoned children across the country to find homes on farms in the MidwFrom 1854 to 1929 orphan trains from New York transported 150,000 to 200,000 destitute, orphaned or abandoned children across the country to find homes on farms in the Midwfrom New York transported 150,000 to 200,000 destitute, orphaned or abandoned children across the country to find homes on farms in the Midwest.

Some animal welfare advocates advise against buying pets from a pet shop or a pet farm as it perpetuates the cycle of commercial and unethical breeding of pets, while many other pets are abandoned or put down.

American Humane Association is challenging 1 million people to take the Kindness 100 Pledge online at www.Kindness100.org to protect and better the lives of animals in four distinct areas, including 10 billion farm animals by seeking out humanely raised foods, the 6 - 8 million animals abandoned each year by adopting from a shelter, the more than 100,000 animal actors who entertain, educate and charm us in film and television each year by looking for the «No Animals Were Harmed ®» end - credit, and the many endangered and disappearing species of the world by cultivating caring and understanding of magnificent creatures by taking their children to accredited zoos, aquariums, and conservation centers.

Obedience Grand Master (OMG) OTCH Reckless Abandon Vd Rod's OGM owned by Andrea B. Highland of Keymar, MD From a young age, Reckless not only excelled on Andrea's farm as a gung - ho, clever worker, she wanted to try everything, Andrea said.

November 15 — 1 1 - yr - old hen whose mate was killed by a mountain lion November 1 — 9 roosters abandoned behind a feedstore October 22 — 3 hens from a woman whose mother died October 21 — 2 roosters left abandoned in a coop October 13 — 1 sheep from a shelter September 29 — 1 sheep left tied to a flagpole September 7 — 2 potbellied piglets from a shelter September 1 — 1,650 hens from a battery cage farm August 26 — 2 roosters July 30 — 1 duck, 1 rooster, 2 hens, 4 king pigeons July 29 — 1 rooster June 3 — 1 goat from a local animal control agency.

July 29 — 1 rooster, misidentified as a hen after being attacked by a dog July 27 — 1 rooster, dumped in neighborhood and rescued July 15 — 1 duck, 1 rooster abandoned at shelter July 3 — 2,000 hens from a battery cage farm June 28 — 1 rooster, dropped off at shelter after being saved from a ritual slaughter June 27 — 1 goat saved from slaughter June 14 — 1 rooster, found abandoned at a park May 13 — 1 goat from a local shelter April 19 — 4 king pigeons from a shelter April 12 — 1,000 hens from a pasture - based egg farm March 31 — 8 hens from a private home March 18: 2 hens from a private home March 9 — 14 hens from a private home March 7 — 1 naked neck hen, eventually transferred to Grass Valley permanent sancuary March 7 — 1 potbellied pig from a shelter, dropped off because guardian could no longer care for

Lithia, FL About Blog We are a pair of techno - geek escapees from the cubical farms of Corporate IT who abandoned the hussle and bussle of the Magic City for a simpler life.

That didn't happen here, although one proposed farm was abandoned because the vibration from the wind turbines would have increased the «seismic noise» at the Laser Interferometry Gravitational Observatory», half of which is located on the Hanford Site, looking for gravitational waves.

I believe he visited one or more of the houses that the wind farm opponents claim have been abandoned due to noise from the turbines.

A Maryland developer has agreed not to build 24 turbines and will abandon 31 proposed sites at a West Virginia wind farm, settling a lawsuit by environmental groups worried about potential harm to the endangered Indiana bat, according to a report from ABC News.

I have even camped out and slept beneath a number of turbines, I have slept in a cabin 850m from a wind farm on two nights and in an abandoned house near another wind farm, so that I could get first - hand experience.

«I would suspect their collapse resulted from a gradual lack of resources, with people abandoning several smaller farms to gather at larger ones until a series of very harsh winters eventually made them starve,» Ribeiro said.

There are many other references dating from this period available from the Alps: records of advancing snow and ice burying silver and gold mines, alpine villages, farms and pastures being abandoned due to colder climate, even physical evidence recovered today under retreating glaciers.

But another excerpt from the movie is just as revealing about what it really means to be truly resilient — and this one comes from a former teacher turned urban farmer who is making a living from the land on less than half - an - acre of abandoned inner city real estate.We have, of course, covered the urban farming scene in Detroit many times over here on TreeHugger.

Pumping water from this far down raises pumping costs so high that farmers are often forced to abandon irrigation and return to less productive dryland farming.

Lithia, FL About Blog We are a pair of techno - geek escapees from the cubical farms of Corporate IT who abandoned the hussle and bussle of the Magic City for a simpler life.