Sentences with phrase «gardening organic crops»

In this type of program — promoted nationwide by the Farm to School organization, connecting schools with local farmers — kids get their hands dirty by gardening organic crops while learning about seasonal cooking, food production, ecology, and nutrition.

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For home pepper gardeners, organic techniques seem to triumph over chemical gardening because the vast majority of growers will be able to raise great pepper crops by simply adding compost and aged manure to the garden each year.

Use of natural, organic materials in your garden will help ensure a safe and healthy crop.

If you had an organic, non-GMO heirloom garden of the top strains of each fruit and vegetable, and each year you were able to hire scientists to test and identify the top producing seeds from your crops so that only those seeds were planted the next year, you would be able to continually improve your garden year after year.

Eventually each classroom will cultivate an organic garden and professional chefs will teach Chattahoochee Charter kids how to prepare meals with garden crops when the new cafeteria kitchen is ready next year.

And at elegant Stanford Inn, a high - quality, earth - friendly experience is evident at every turn, from the organic gardens growing crops for The Ravens, the inn's award - winning restaurant, to quality bikes and canoes available for guests.

Following in the footsteps of her grandmother Susanna Bixby Bryant — a rancher and founder of the first botanical garden dedicated exclusively to California native plants, Sue has been an ardent defender of indigenous and organic family farmers, and their heirloom seed crops, for much of her life.

It can also be used in crop rotation cycles (used in the system of organic gardening) to add vital nutrients back to the soil that are lost when growing crops like corn and tobacco.

The programme is run by the Curitiba Food Supply Department and its partners, and provides all necessary practical training, assistance and conditions for garden and crop production, including education on home composting, guidance for the natural control of pests and diseases, in addition to providing organic fertilizer, limestone, seedlings and seeds.

We also have an uninhabited island bought on Craigslist for artists, a tiny 107 - square - foot British - themed apartment in Brazil, organic, lactose - and gluten - free ice cream treats, must have crops for a foodie's garden, UNESCO saying no to wind turbines, and more, in our roundup of the best photos on TreeHugger this week.

Indeed, what we are talking about here is really just an extension of the notion that organic farming or gardening is not a collection of techniques and technologies, but rather a philosophy that puts the life of the ecosystem, and as part of that, the life of the soil, at the heart of ensuring well - being for our crops, animals and ourselves.