Sentences with phrase «harvests during a growing season»

The temperate climate and abundant sun where I live give me multiple harvests during a growing season.

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Back in those times, when farmers grew and harvested, their season was during the wet season, from about November to May.

Then the members go to a designated pick - up site to collect a portion of the harvest every week during the growing season.

Chile's central valley, the heartland of Awe Sum Organics Blueberry production, experiences very little rain during the growing and harvest season, resulting in decreased susceptibility to fungus and other diseases.

WSDA Farm to School and the Washington School Nutrition Association (WSNA) with support from Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction Child Nutrition (OSPI), partner to sponsor Taste Washington Day, an annual celebration of Washington grown foods served in school meals during the fall harvest season.

If overtime is enacted, farmers will have to cut hours during the growing season so as to afford the overtime at planting and harvest time which can't be avoided.

In the satellite data, cropland is identified as areas that turn green during the growing season, and then quickly become brown, indicating a harvest.

Growers are now spraying wheat and other crops not only during the growing season, but also after harvest, to keep pests out!

It's typically considered the rainy season where the fruit grows during the month of July and so it isn't harvested during that period.

They are 4th generation farmers and grow and harvest approximately 20 acres of Virginia Pine and Leyland Cypress trees during the Christmas season.

Eligible activities under the Mid-South module include: 1) removal of rice straw from the field after harvest, 2) early drainage at the end of the growing season, 3) intermittent flooding during the growing season, and 4) increased water and / or energy use efficiency, achieved through measures including but not limited to: convert contour levees to precision or zero grade; use of side inlet / poly piping systems; use of more efficient diesel pumps; switch from diesel to electric pumps; use of soil moisture sensors to tailor flood to water needs.

This is not because California's rice farmers are more skilled than their Japanese counterparts but because Japan's rice harvest grows mostly during the monsoon season, when there is extensive cloud cover, while California's rice fields bask in bright sunlight.

While container vegetable gardening is well suited to growing food in small spaces, it can also be a great addition to any home, as the plants can be located where they will look and grow best (and where they will be the most convenient for care and harvest), and can be used to extend the growing season as the containers can be brought inside on cold nights or during a storm.

Bread for the City provides fresh produce from its farm in Maryland for low - income clients who live in Washington, D.C., with the help of volunteers who harvest the vegetables during the growing season.