Sentences with phrase «grasses planted in»

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MillerCoors» water - saving effort — focused in Texas, California and Colorado — involves using sensors to release just enough water for irrigation, planting native grass to reduce erosion and runoff and keeping a close eye on leaky machinery in its breweries.

Beartooth Capital Partners Based in Bozeman, Montana, Beartooth Capital buys ranch land and cleans it up, restoring rivers and planting grass to make the ranches more animal and buyer friendly.

The company stopped watering its lush lawns last year, and though the type of grass it planted is supposed to be drought - tolerant, the grass has browned in some areas.

The sharecropper would clear and farm the land and leave it planted with grass before moving on in search of more land; the campesino's function from the sixties on, then, basically has been that of «increasing the value of land that will later be occupied by the big cattlemen» (Slutsky, 100).

In this vast cosmos, such as science knows it, we humans (even as an entire race, from beginning to end) are barely a speck in silent space, unimportant, less enduring than galaxies and stars» less so even than many plants, insects, and viruses» here today like the grass of the field, tomorrow gonIn this vast cosmos, such as science knows it, we humans (even as an entire race, from beginning to end) are barely a speck in silent space, unimportant, less enduring than galaxies and stars» less so even than many plants, insects, and viruses» here today like the grass of the field, tomorrow gonin silent space, unimportant, less enduring than galaxies and stars» less so even than many plants, insects, and viruses» here today like the grass of the field, tomorrow gone.

It might take a year before that hole in the front yard is really empty of the rot and then my husband will fill it in with the good dirt, the healthy kind, and he'll plant grass again and everything will be restored to health, even capable of growing things.

But in some parts of the country a grass - roots movement of laid - off workers resisting the plant closures is exerting surprising pressure upon its own leadership, as the recent vote by the rank and file membership of United Auto Workers to defy its own leadership and decisively reject a wage agreement with Chrysler Corporation appears to indicate.

Man, of course, is like one of the natural objects in the hands of man: «Their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field, and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops...» What is forgotten is that when the power of man is unleashed it is never in the hands of all men («man» here means some men rather than all men, and this is even more flagrantly so today).

Cox is a research coordinator and senior scientist at The Land Institute where he focuses on sorghum, a genus of plants in the grass family.

Premier Proteins» grass - fed beef comes from cattle that roam their entire lives on open pastureland in California and Missouri, eating only a diet of fresh grasses and plants, Haas says.

It completely resonates with me, I love what you wrote and I agree with you, I have for decades been a barefoot in the grass to ground girl as well as talking to and touching my plants.

In larger gardens with grass and flower beds, once planted, the flowers will self - seed and you'll have lots around in no timIn larger gardens with grass and flower beds, once planted, the flowers will self - seed and you'll have lots around in no timin no time.

Commonly used by farmers to control weeds, and Landcare groups to kill grass and weeds before tree planting, many don't have any qualms about using glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup ® — but not the Storti's and thousands of other organic farmers.

Lemon grass makes a nice houseplant and a continuous supplier of lemony stalks — simply root a stalk in water and then plant it in a pot.

Investigations have shown that earthworms also benefit greatly from green manuring and the planting of grass - clover in the crop rotation47.

The new grass Wade had planted in Duke Stadium had become a mud puddle.

He rose an inch or two, straightening himself like a spear, and when he charged, screaming with his teammates towards the end zone to plant the stake in the grass, all the questions from alumnae and boosters and radio commentators - about so many first - year starters and so many two - way players, and about a quarterback controversy — seemed to have been answered.

Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summertime; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snowshoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles.

In other words, a reel mower helps the grass plant to help itself!»

One of the lowest maintenance plants you can introduce to your garden, grasses come in a wide variety of colours and are a great way of adding texture and interest to your outdoor space without requiring a whole lot of work.

I intended it for the garden, but I think I might just plant some tall decorative grasses in it and make it a front porch planter instead - at least for this season.

To complement your grasses, alpine plants should also feature in rockeries and are excellent low maintenance options that look great.

We moved in to a house that basically had no back yard and we are considering well do we plant the grass do you have fake grass and we had heard cos our neighbors had fake grass that it can get super-hot.

Grass and trees would be planted in all of the sections, and the large - dog section would contain agility equipment.

The Liberty Prairie Conservancy is looking for volunteers to plant flowers and grass at two prairie restoration sites in central Lake County.

In partnership with the Fox Valley Park District, students and park district employees planted about 3,000 prairie grasses and wildflowers along a stretch of Waubonsie Lake, which features a walking path behind the school.

Also, if you are interested in incorporating some ornamental grasses to your decor, buy and plant some purple fountain grass in the spring and you will really get to appreciate them in the fall!

No one argues that this vote was the Jamesport plant's downfall, yet in retrospect, it not only blunted the speed and self - assurance of the greedy special interests, but it also gave added focus to a grass - roots offensive that gained momentum.

Today in Breezy Point residents commemorated the one year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy with a public ceremony and a volunteer effort at planting dune grass on a long sand dune that residents recently created.

Between March 29, 2016, and April 20, 2016, Josmon Technologies Limited allegedly transferred N317m to Rholavision after receiving two «grass - cutting» contracts worth N530.6 m for the removal of invasive plant species in Yobe State, according to the Senate report.

Ford made the colossal mistake of deciding not to green its core business (cars) but instead to throw $ 2 billion at greening its Rouge auto plant in Dearborn, Mich. (In particular, they decided to install a green roof... planted with grassesin Dearborn, Mich. (In particular, they decided to install a green roof... planted with grassesIn particular, they decided to install a green roof... planted with grasses.)

Responses to elevated CO2 levels in C3 and C4 grasses reverse after 12 years, raising questions about long - term plant responses to global change.

In the team's «New Aqueous City,» ground - level parks would be planted with grasses and trees that can withstand occasional flooding, while canals cut into the neighborhood would channel invading waters.

Not only that but it also takes into consideration the type of grass, trees, and other plants in each area.

Blue grama, green needle grass and other drought - resistant plants thrived in the short growing season.

The researchers also reconstructed what flowers looked like at all the key divergences in the flowering plant evolutionary tree, including the early evolution of monocots (e.g., orchids, lilies, and grasses) and eudicots (e.g., poppies, roses, and sunflowers), the two largest groups of flowering plants.

The shores of Lake Turkana, in Kenya, are dry and inhospitable, with grasses as the dominant plant type.

«Our results show that healthy growth can be achieved by combining certain soil bacteria with grasses, even when plants are grown in extremely nitrogen - deprived soil,» said study coauthor Richard Ferrieri, director of Brookhaven Lab's Radiochemistry and Biological Imaging Program.

The studies do find some benefit from biofuels but only when planted on agricultural land too dry or degraded for food production or significant tree or plant growth and only when derived from native plants, such as a mix of prairie grasses in the U.S. Midwest.

For an outstanding view of the skyline, you can climb the switchbacks of the Great Mound, a pile of rubble from the old plant now covered in dirt and grass.

«A Wild Weedy Scourge,» page 24 «Resource Heterogeneity, Soil Fertility and Species Diversity: Effects of Clonal Species on Plant Communities,» by J. Alexander Eilts and colleagues in May issue of The American Naturalist describes how plants like cogon grass, which spread through expansive underground networks, reduce biodiversity even in soils that are thought to boost it.

In her experiment, Bybee - Finley found the grasses and legumes that grew at the same pace were more productive because they weren't competing for space and resources as much as plants that grew at different rates.

This involves simply keeping the airport's grass long (and planting grass in areas which are now bare), draining off all standing water, and controlling the scarab beetles.

The fossil, taken from amber mines in Myanmar, dates 97 - 110 million years ago to the early - to - mid Cretaceous, when the land was still dominated by dinosaurs and conifers, but the earliest flowering plants, grasses and small mammals were beginning to evolve.

Brown researchers have compiled a detailed Indonesian climate record of the last 60,000 years, tracking telltale indicators in sedimentary cores: titanium levels (a marker for surface water runoff) and the carbon isotopes of leaf wax, a marker for plant varieties (grasses indicate dry conditions).

But a new study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology and led by University of Pennsylvania doctoral candidate Bianca Charbonneau finds that the invasive plant does have one advantage over its native counterpart, Ammophila breviligulata, or American beach grass: the invasive is better at preventing erosion of dunes during big storms.

«Because big bluestem is currently a dominant grass species of the Great Plains and makes up to 70 percent of the plant biomass in places, how the ecosystem works could be affected by predicted changes in growth of this species,» Johnson said.

Elizabete Carmo - Silva, LEC lecturer in plant sciences for food security, said: «Both jointed grass and barley are regarded as valuable genetic resources for improving wheat disease resistance, our research suggests that they can also be used to improve biomass production.»

This research, «Robust biological nitrogen fixation in a model grass - bacterial association,» was published in the March 2015 issue of the Plant Journal.

Yet in fact, this team's experiments showed the grass Setaria viridis received 100 percent of its nitrogen needs from the bacteria Azospirillum brasilense when associated with plant root surfaces.