Sentences with phrase «group of farmers»

Growing up with parents who were actively trying to preserve our rural community and create a collaborative group of farmers, environmentalists, government agencies, and community members influenced me.

Fonterra Australia Australian Milk Supply general manger Matt Watt said the company was working through various «ownership models» at the moment, with a small group of farmers.

The Farmers will fund back the project after a successful season and it will be used by the next group of farmers as an ongoing educational project — excellent initiative.

I discovered Kona coffee, grown in limited areas of Hawaii by a select group of farmers.

The result of partnering with a dedicated group of farmers to bring you this version of our White Whole Wheat Flour.

Of most promise for long - term agricultural sustainability was evidence that certain groups of farmers were found to be realising the potential of these and other alternative markets, in terms of their risk reducing capacity, and diversifying to include various conservation values into their agricultural enterprises.

Fittingly, these successes were for a home - county group of farmers known as the Border Reivers, which means raiders.

But it now appears that, after a major migration of farmers into Europe, many groups of farmers and hunter - gatherers living in particular regions mingled to varying extents for many centuries, the researchers say.

It showed that complex, optimized irrigation networks could arise from a series of false starts, abandoned irrigation works, conflicts between groups of farmers and environmental perturbations.

So she asked the Bajau, along with the Saluan — a genetically similar group of farmers — to let her sequence their genomes and measure the size of their spleens.

A hemp revival fueled by unified groups of farmers, doctors, nutritionists, environmentalists, and businesses gained even more momentum with the exciting discovery of the endocannabinoid system in the 1990s.

With her highly acclaimed series Two Planets (2008) and Village and Elsewhere (2011)-- shown as part of her first New York solo exhibition in New York (Tyler Rollins Fine Art, 2012)-- Araya focused on art itself and the way the viewer interacts with a work of art, placing framed reproductions of iconic Western paintings in rural villages, markets, and Buddhist temples in Thailand, where she helmed groups of farmers discussing the artworks.

In 1984, he enlisted a small group of farmers to dig wide, shallow wells (about 26 ft. / 8 m in diameter) for each other in his home province of Uva, which has suffered a prolonged and severe water crisis since the British Empire ordered its soldiers to destroy all its reservoirs — as well as chop down every fruit - bearing tree and kill all men aged 18 and over — in retaliation for the Uva — Wellassa Uprising of 1817 — 1818.

So we're working with a group of farmers and CoinJar to create a peer - to - peer farm finance platform.

It's the tale of a group of farmers who, in the 1970s, got together and said collectively, «We can do better.

Biological Farmers of Australia was the name given to a not for profit organisation formed by a group of farmers 25 years ago.

The group of farmers who founded Australian Organic practiced biodynamic farming — a style of farming developed by Austrian philosopher Rudolph Steiner in the early 20th century, encouraging the use of composts and manures.

Galanti is one of a small group of farmers, producers, and chefs bringing this bitter but very - good - for - you herb (rhymes with «champagne») into restaurant kitchens.

The Soil Association was founded in 1946 by a group of farmers, scientists and nutritionists who were concerned about the way our food was produced.

«The relationship we group of farmers have with the Hanover Co-op is really unique, and sometimes I take it for granted,» said Jake Guest from Kildeer Farm in Norwich, VT, and a partner of the Co-op for 40 years.

But the tour inevitably led to a series of stagey photos as she visited a factory, a group of farmers and a nursery.

The Soil Association, which has long been at the head of the British organic movement, was founded in 1946, by a group of farmers, scientists and nutritionists who posited direct connections between farming practice and plant, animal, human and environmental health.

When Lunz began meeting with a group of farmers near Winnebago in 1991, they could count on a state - sponsored cash payment of 20 cents per gallon, up to $ 3 million a year.

For example, in 1965 a group of farmers in Pennsylvannia went to court to complain that someone was stealing their weather.

Now, when you hear the words «wax - jacket» some of you may instantly think of a group of farmers gathering at the local county fair sporting their favourite jacket of the waxed variety.

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This collective basically refers to a group of farmers who have adjacent fields and the organization ensures that each piece of landscape receives fair distribution of the precious water that is sourced from a local spring.

We've also got a group of farmers who are pretty keen as well with plans for another auction this summer.

China's terracotta warriors captured the imagination of the world when they were unearthed by a group of farmers in Shaanxi Province in 1974.

Over in Japan, where agricultural land is highly prized, a group of farmers are pursuing a similar goal — developing what they refer to as «solar sharing».

Instead, Juhl, through his Juhl Wind Inc., brings together a group of farmers to invest in a common future.

SAN PEDRO, Laguna, Philippines — The Department of Agriculture (DA) is building up a case against a group of farmers responsible for the August 8 attack on a field testing site of the controversial Golden Rice in Pili, Camarines Sur.

A group of farmers is calling out for what it has dubbed «agricultural justice.»

A group of farmers, activists and citizens in British Columbia have removed any hint of uncertainty by creating a local low carbon grain chain.

Everything needed to get going on sustainable farming practices is included, and the program is proving to be successful - she and a group of farmers in the Mau Forest, successfully planted12 Hectares using a new distributed production model and supplies from the eco-friendly back pack farming kits.

Balance is pleased to announce that it is financing Queensland's first - ever class action proceedings, assisting a group of farmers in their claims against a seed manufacturer.