Sentences with phrase «growing food instead»

With budgets tightening, many folks are considering growing food instead of just pretty flowers.

Kristyna and Marek Milde created a temporary vegetable garden using shopping carts, soil, and plants to experience the process of growing food instead of buying it.

Consider local parks, empty lots owned by neighbors who wouldn't mind having them cleaned up and taken care of for free and church lawns that might serve the community better by growing food instead of requiring regular mowing.

Not exact matches

The decline in light yogurt can be traced to a growing demand for natural, protein - rich foods that fill up health - conscious consumers, instead of simply low - calorie and low - fat options.

A family opts to live on less money after the husband refuses to accept a job transfer that would have him designing weapons and the wife decides she wants to stay at home with their children; to act on these values, the family renovates an old house, relies on bicycles instead of a car, and grows some of its own food.

I intended it to just be an easy A class, but instead it got me really interested in gardening, landscape, plants, and growing my own food.

Other earth - friendly ideas include giving out flowering plants for favors, serving locally grown food, sending digital invitations, and wrapping the presents in recyclable or reusable material such as newspaper, cloth diapers, or baby blankets instead of store - bought wrapping paper.

The Baby Led - Weaning movement is all about letting your child explore finger food - sized portions of grown - up foods themselves instead of being spoon - fed purees and cereals.

This is the cost of the mother having to spend hours each day breastfeeding instead of other activities, such as paid work or home production (such as growing food).

In a world that's packed with fast food and easy quick meal fixes that might not be all that healthy, children more often than not grow up thinking it's okay to choose something based on convenience instead of health.

Cuomo instead convened a wage board at the state Department of Labor to review potential changes to the minimum wage for workers in the fast - food industry, giving a nod to a growing campaign for better wages in that sector.

Subsidies for using farmland to grow fuels, instead of food.

These are also known as biofuels, i.e. plants that would otherwise potentially go to feed people (or grown on land that would otherwise grow food) going into gas tanks instead.

If the land devoted to growing food for cattle in the United States were used to grow peas, barley, and other crops for people instead, beef production would drop by 55 %, from 31 million to 14 million beef cattle, the team reports today in Nature Ecology and Evolution.

Given that most fishes convert feed to flesh much more efficiently than cows, as well as producing healthier food and contributing less methane to the atmosphere, an alternative would be to reduce beef production and instead use available land to grow crops for fish feed.

For starters, our country's system for mandating and subsidizing the production of ethanol has meant that farmers who could be using their land to grow today's food feel economically compelled to grow tomorrow's fuel instead.

Instead of comparing the price of organic food with «conventional» foods, what we should use for an apples to apples comparison is the cost of sustainably grown, organic food prices vs. the food price of US tax payer subsidized, toxic food, which is what «conventional» food actually is.

Instead, you're forced to reckon with more effective questions, such as «why might XYZ bad foods make certain tissues in my body SICK (i.e. grow too much, not enough, etc)»

Instead of powder you can have 20 tablets (500 mg each) of chlorella or spirulina every day about 30 minutes before breakfast as they are excellent sources of chlorophyll, iron, iodine, EPA and DHA omega - 3 fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, and trace elements that are often missing in commercially grown foods.

Could we use some of resources used for raising meat and instead grow food for them?

The term «clean eating» has grown in popularity in the weight loss world as people are beginning to take more of an active interest in the quality of food they are eating instead of just the quantity, and how where their food comes from can effect not only their waistlines, but more importantly, their health.

Walking instead of driving, growing their food and making their dresses themselves, Russian women manage this job graciously and happily, being on a very tough budget.

Instead they eschew the supermarket in favor of seeking out locally grown foods, usually grown by themselves or bought from local farmers markets - and save money in the process.

Instead, limited - ingredient dog foods and treats, which typically offer a single protein source along with a minimal number of other ingredients, are seeing ever - growing popularity.

Instead, she recommends buying locally grown, in - season food to ensure it is fresh.

The food our dog eats should look very similar to the way it grows, walks, or swims on this earth instead of appearing in nugget format.

As your puppy grows up his dietary needs will change, and at some point you will need to switch over to adult dog food instead.

Instead, we started our own app development company on the road and have been criss - crossing the globe, traveling, working, eating spicy food and refusing to «grow up» ever since.

There are a few minor issues; I wish more of the food was local instead of brought in from Coca, but Miguel tells me that they can not grow enough variety or catch enough fish to dependably supply the kitchen.

You then take that ethanol and burn it into an internal combustion engine that is maybe 20 - 30 % efficient, and you end up with a tremendous amount of wasted energy... And you've used up farmland that could instead have grown food for human consumption, increasing food prices by reducing supply.

The UK could soon be growing bananas, pineapples, rice, and other foods instead of importing them.

Proponents of the bill, such as the Hemp Industries Association and the nonprofit advocacy group Vote Hemp, argue that hemp products — including food, body care products and textiles — are a multimillion - dollar industry that could benefit California's economy by allowing the raw materials to be grown here instead of importing hemp from overseas.

This unique approach does not take land away from food production, but instead promotes the multiple use of farmlands — for growing trees and cash crops.

Grow your own food instead of relying on produce trucked in from five states away.

While African countries are beginning to explore the possibilities of farming biofuel crops for local household and domestic grid energy use, the consequences of growing biofuel for export to the wealthy countries so that they may maintain their energy intensive lifestyles, instead of growing food for consumption by Africans could be severe.

The study - Unwrapped: how throwaway plastic is failing to solve Europe's food waste problem (and what we need to do instead)- shows how annual per - capita use of plastic packaging has grown simultaneously with levels of food waste since the 1950s — now at 30 kg and 173 kg respectively.

«As to satellites, the data are quite difficult to interpret in a qualitatively accurate manner (there is a long history of corrections of past shortcomings to improve the data products), and the data are not the temperature that most of us live in and grow our food in down here at the surface, but instead some moderately complicated average of conditions above us somewhere in the atmosphere (much better definitions can be given, but the satellites measure some weighted average up there rather than the surface down here).

As to whether it's moral to grow biofuels instead of food, remember Malthus.

According to this argument, if U.S. farm production is used for fuel instead of food, food prices rise and farmers in developing countries respond by growing more food.

You are also competing with the food chain because land that could have been used to grow food to eat is instead used to grow biomass for a power plant.

«If we could get people to spend just five percent of their food money on locally grown meats, fruit, honey and sorghum, instead of relying totally on the area's two supermarkets, that would go a long way to build a sustainable food system, «said the nun.

For the most part, the top contestants frequently rode bikes instead of driving, kept the heat down in the winter, grew some of their own food, went without air - conditioning and airplane travel, and spent little on clothes and entertainment.

I don't want to start a big debate on vegetarianism vs. meat - eating, but right now there is way more than enough food being produced in the world; it's just that we grow crops that we feed to animals, and then we eat the animals (in many cases it's a way to make money — sell meat for a premium to the rich instead of selling tons of grain for a fraction of that price to starving people).

However the smaller parcel of land needed to grow X amount of food using conventional agriculture, as well as the surrounding landscape, will be much more heavily impacted than the larger parcel of land needed if we opt for organic agriculture instead.