Sentences with phrase «from urban farmers»

The report not only provides guidelines for conducting these analyses, but also argues for their value on both public and private construction projects, from urban farmers» markets to federal highways.

The municipality of Governador Valadares has prioritised the marketing of urban agricultural products in different ways: (a) by providing incentives for the formation of cooperatives for the production and commercialization of products, (b) by the creation of sales and distribution centres as well as farmers markets in the city and c) by buying agricultural products from the urban farmer groups to supply to schools, community kitchens, hospitals and other service organizations.

Not exact matches

Mary flees from the crucifixion before it's over; she wields a kitchen knife against the disciples when they try to force her to agree to their version of Christ's death and resurrection; she has no faith whatsoever in Christianity or Judaism but finds consolation in worshiping the many - breasted Greek goddess Artemis; her vision of the afterlife is more accurately a vision of a twenty - first - century urban farmers» market: «a city... filled with plenty, a marketplace laden with fish and fowl and the fruits of the earth.»

Everyone from early - morning dairy farmers to time - stressed urban commuters are using RAAW ™ Juices to maintain healthy nutrition.

A third - generation farmer from rural New Jersey, she was planning to go into the family occupation when her life took an urban twist.

For farmers and ranchers in Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula during a six - year drought, the farther away they lived from urban areas, the more likely they were to have to make changes to cope with the dwindling supply of water, according to a Portland State University study.

As farmers in the American West decide what, when and where to plant, and urban water managers plan for water needs in the next year, they want to know how much water their community will get from melting snow in the mountains.

In the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s, Mao Zedong sent urban youth to the countryside to learn from farmers.

In many urban neighborhoods the most convenient places to shop are corner stores, such as the bodega down the street from the Bronx farmers market.

Massive pumps in the southern end of the delta suck nearly 10 billion cubic meters of water per year from the delta and send it to farmers in the Central Valley and urban residents in Southern California.

From the outside, San Francisco might seem like a wellness oasis, with hilly urban hikes, bountiful farmers markets, and green parks aplenty.

Counter You can see some sad - looking limes, a little bag of red potatoes from Jones Valley Urban Farm (which is less than 10 minutes from where I live), a big bar of baking chocolate, some basil I got from my closest farmers» market, and a bar of Santander for evening snacking.

Actions that bring urban families and rural farm communities closer together, from expanding farmers» markets and farm - restaurant connections to community supported agriculture;

In continuous operation since 1927, this Santa Monica hotel exudes history with its Mediterranean architecture, yet is steps from the best of urban Santa Monica, such as the Third Street Promenade and Santa Monica Farmers Market.

Updated, 6:17 p.m. As Cleveland tries to find a path to normalcy after hosting the Republican National Convention, as the city's urban farmers prepare to benefit from a convention - boosted bonanza of composted coffee grounds * (there's an up side to everything), it's worth taking a closer look at a few details in how the party handled global warming in its platform and rhetoric.

I signed myself up, then went to hear James Birch an organic farmer who used to help urban homeowners in LA convert their gardens and landscapes into organic food gardens — from Flora Bella Farms in Three Rivers, Calif..

You might find it illustrative to think of China (or indeed, any urban society) from the viewpoint of say a battery chicken farmer.

I meet urban farmers who teach women from a homeless shelter and inner - city kids to grow healthy food on remediated vacant lots; advocates for sustainable transportation who tirelessly attend hearings and planning meetings; members of community land trusts that provide affordable housing; and conservation land trusts that preserve ecosystems and habitats acre by acre, stream by stream.

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Firstly, the RUAF Foundation cooperates with urban producers, local NGOs, public administrations and other relevant stakeholder groups in setting up of concrete short chain marketing initiatives, for example within the framework of the Market - oriented urban agriculture project in Gaza (implemented in cooperation with Oxfam) agricultural value chains in various specific product groups are supported in a market - for the poor - perspective; The From Seed to Table programme supported 30 urban farmer groups in 17 cities to innovate their local production systems, engage in value - adding activities and establish innovative short marketing channels; The projects in Freetown and Makeni in Sierra Leone implemented in cooperation with COOPI helped to establish various youth - led agro-enterprises (in pig raising and slaughtering; milk and fruit processing and waste management).

From Seed to Table (FStT) is a major 3 - year programme aimed to encourage urban farmer groups to innovate their local production systems, to engage in value - adding activities and establish innovative short marketing channels in 18 major cities, and to enhance the capacities of NGOs to support them effectively in such activities.

In Cagayan de Oro, urban farmers generally eat more vegetables than non-urban farmers of the same wealth class, and also more than consumers from a higher wealth class (who consume more meat)(Potutan et al. 1999).

In many cities, local or municipal initiatives exist to collect household waste and organic refuse from vegetable markets and agro-industries in order to produce compost or animal feed, but one can also find urban farmers who use fresh organic waste (which may cause environmental and health problems).

Here is a guest post from the passionate citisven about the potential for urban farming A good friend of mine who is a backyard beekeeper in Oakland invited me to meet his fellow urban farmer Novella Carpenter for a reading of her new book, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Faurban farming A good friend of mine who is a backyard beekeeper in Oakland invited me to meet his fellow urban farmer Novella Carpenter for a reading of her new book, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Faurban farmer Novella Carpenter for a reading of her new book, Farm City: The Education of an Urban FaUrban Farmer.

Taking place in Brooklyn Grange's indoor workshop space at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Anastasia will cover a range of topics, including: different business entities a budding urban farmer might consider; the various goals, benefits and challenges of urban agriculture; the range of physical models — from aeroponics to aquaponics to soil - based farming — and business structures, and how each one addresses respective goals and challenges; various enterprises for the diversified urban farm, from flowers to bees to mushrooms to events, and more!

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Another culprit is the Chinese government: On one side, it asks automakers to make more efficient vehicles, but on the other it «has tried to shield farmers and the urban poor from high oil prices by freezing pump prices for gasoline and diesel, keeping them among the world's lowest.

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.

Dunn, the founder and director of the Resource Center, a Chicago non-profit focused on recycling, reuse and urban farming, is the son of Mennonite farmers from tiny Partridge, Kansas.

Kudos to these urban farmers who, from the beginning, realized organic produce had a needed place far away from high - end suburban supermarkets.

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