Sentences with phrase «leaving the family farm»

Will Rees, an itinerant weaver searching for his son who has left the family farm, finds him in a Shaker community where a suspicious death has taken place.

All she wants is to leave the family farm and become a princess in Boston.

One day she confesses to her mother that it's time for her to leave the family farm.

Q: My dad plans on leaving the family farm to me and my sister.

Leave your family farm and head west to find your fortune in this huge, humorous adventure brimming with branching storylines, tactical turn - based combat, and big hats.

Four generations will be working side by side for the first time since most Americans left the family farm behind.

Not exact matches

Against her father's wishes, Elizabeth Arden left her impoverished family farm in Canada for Manhattan, an intoxicating place of wealth and possibility.

In the process of escaping from Czechoslovakia [Reitman left with his family in 1950], we spent some time on my uncle's farm in France, and I would put on these circus performances where I would get all the local kids to participate.

I served this country, volunteered for war, and now am left to deal with idiots like you who want to see stories like this, read some kind of republicanized twist into everything, blame Israel and Obama for your own personal failures (to include turkey farms - which I abhor unless free range), then go ahead: you're embarrassing yourself, your family, and every good person, Jews included, that you know.

This is obviously tough land to farm, so many men leave their families behind to migrate to Santa Cruz, Argentina, or even Spain in hopes of harvesting better crops and sending some money home.

I'm guessing L4H is someone living back on the farm and has never left his rural community, the only life he knows is that of his family and close church friends.

A Hays County family left the maintenance of their 30 - acre farm, including eight or nine milk cows, to a «slightly addled» grandmother and three pre-teenaged children while they roved northward on a cattle drive.

I left the NGO and started teaching and doing farming work to sustain my family.

She then started «growing fertilizer» by planting avocado trees that provide shade for delicate coffee bushes, organic nutrients for the soil (the fallen leaves that now carpet much of the farm), and extra income for the family when the fruits are in season.

A millionaire dairy farming couple is trying to prove their son is mentally unwell after he left their church and raised concerns about the family business.

He packed up his family, moved to Great Barrington, Massachusetts to start a small farm, and left behind the restaurants Diner and Marlow & Sons, and the recently opened butcher shop Marlow & Daughters — all of which were thriving, and all of which he'd co-founded with his buddy and business partner Andrew Tarlow.

$ 15 min wage, 12 weeks family leave, no opposition to the unionization of farm workers, pro-SAFE Act, etc..

The nine year old family feud has left several people dead and property destroyed including burning of houses and motorbikes, farms etc..

In his writing, Leopold left behind lucid observations of the natural world, gleaned mainly from the time that he and his family spent at a weekend refuge, a «sand farm» in Wisconsin, and driven by his burning desire to preserve that world.

Laurie McNamara grew up on a farm, but as she left home, started a full - time job and had a family, she started to rely on processed foods.

These sweet plants are grown in family - owned Stevia farms that use self - sustaining farming methods to help preserve the many beneficial phytochemicals found in the Stevia plant leaf.

The leaves themselves are harvested from ancient trees from the finest, family run farms in Spain.

According to the Midvalleyvu Family Farm, kefir contains right - turning bacteria, which is a type of bacteria that is «far superior and much more beneficial to the digestive tract», while yogurt has left - turning bacteria, a type that is harmful to nursing mothers and young children.

Amazing Grass Cereal Grasses contain 100 % organic, whole leaf wheat grass, barley grass and alfalfa grown and harvested on our family farm in Kansas.

Our Aloe Vera Powder is composed of the freeze - dried inner «gel» of organic aloe leaf plants sourced from a family - operated farm in California.

The family room's mantel is dressed up for the holidays in custom magnolia - leaf garlands from Weston Farms.

After leaving the farm and Willy Nelson (his dog), he goes back to his family.

When big - city speculators cheat him out of his farm, old - time, eccentric Virginian Nathaniel Banks leaves his family and makes a new home in a cave on the creek, inspiring a community - wide rebellion as he eventually forces his way back home.

After her two sons, Georges (Cyril Descours) and Constant (Nicolas Giraud), are sent off to battle, Hortense is left with the responsibility of managing the family farm.

World War I is raging elsewhere, but this segment of the country remains unspoiled and fertile — thanks to the hard work of the women who've been left behind to manage the family farm while their husbands, brothers and sons are off fighting, and sometimes not coming back.

At Sundance, writer - director Robert Eggers won the U.S. Dramatic Competition Directing Award for his debut feature about a Puritan family in 1630s New England who leave their community to start their own farm on the edge of a forest.

It's the story of Chris Guthrie in the early 20th century, a teenage girl (here played by Agyness Deyn) who suffers the changing rota of her family as they pass on or exit, ultimately leaving the farm to her tending.

From IMDb: Women are left behind to work a family farm during the Great War.

As director, star and cowriter (with Bryan Woods and Scott Beck), John Krasinski hits on a killer hook: What if a family of four, among the few left alive after a monster apocalypse, can survive on their upstate New York farm as long as they don't make a sound?

The movie's endearing heroine is Judy Hopps (deftly voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin), an energized bunny with 275 siblings and a lifelong dream to become a cop, an ambition she fulfills when she leaves her devoted parents (Bonnie Hunt, Don Lake) and the family carrot farm to join the Zootopia Police Department.

I grew up in a conservative working - class family who had left its roots in farming communities of Ontario to travel to Hamilton, Toronto and other large metropolitan areas (where my dad landed a job as manager of Eastern Canada for Philips Electronics and brought us temporarily into the middle class).

The model was developed for rural schools because Colbert and her cofounders recognized that children in these communities have unique circumstances surrounding their schooling, such as the need to leave school during harvest season to work the family farm or single - classroom schools that serve many grade levels at once.

She was twenty - two years old and a bride of several days when she left her family's farm in Tinn in the Telemark region of southern Norway in April 1873.

When her husband enlists in the Union army, newlywed Alice is left to mind the family farm with her cantankerous mother - in - law.

I agree with pretty much what everyone has said but susiej made a point that I agree with... the fact that it represents the fact that the family remains intertwined whether they leave the farm or not.

This is North Carolina in the early 1920s, and Jessie must leave school to help care for her hardworking farm family.

But in 2002, his country was stricken with a famine that left his family's farm devastated and his parents destitute.

The Mitchells just wanted to be left alone to farm their land, practice their faith in the Presbyterian Church, and raise their family.

After leaving for college, she missed the many family farm animals and soon found that majoring in veterinary medicine «became attractive as a way to be in contact with many animals, but not necessarily have to support them!

They often have very long fur to protect them in the farm environment, but in a family home this translates into a lot of grooming to remove burrs, leaves, small sticks, and other foreign objects that will become tangled in the coat.

At the same time, the farmers, while paid for the sheep taken for slaughter, face months of zero income for their families as no agricultural products are leaving the farms.

Marston is an ex-gang member and a self - described «robin hood» of the wild west, however, after being left for dead by his fellow gang members during a robbery gone awry, he's left the life of crime and got himself a family and a farm.

Being of Japanese extraction, he was registered with his family as an enemy alien in Canada during World War II and had to leave Calgary for farm work in order to survive those difficult years.

Based on a black and white photograph from the 1930s reproduced in the Sunday Express, a copy of which his mother found under the carpet of the house they moved to in 2006 when his family reluctantly left the farm following the death of his father and the subsequent financial hardship of farm trading, the image has poignant autobiographical association for the artist which he often revisits.

Left unchecked, this wave of development will destroy our world - famous landscapes, foul our drinking water, clog our roads and destroy family farms.