Sentences with phrase «more from local growers»

This program works with eight local farmers and Jennifer sees this as a means to source more from local growers.

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Although Shelton Farms still has its original 40 acres, the company has added a few hundred more acres and sources product from a number of local growers.

Local farmers and grape growers are vehemently against fracking and the region is a safe Liberal seat that became more complicated when the sitting Liberal Party MP, Troy Bell, resigned from the party in August after being charged with allegedly misappropriating $ 2 million in taxpayer funds.

The rise of the local wine industry made it more profitable for many apple growers to turn their rich agricultural land from orchards into vineyards.

Kelly told Guardian Australia that SPC Ardmona, which employs more than 1000 workers and buys fruit from hundreds of local growers, «does not have a viable future» without the grant, which, along with money from the Victorian government and the company, would retool the factory to produce products more suited to a modern market.

Unfortunately, that kind of blame is rarely accurate or helpful, and from my viewpoint, has created a big rift between the people who grow most of the food and the rest of us, who depend on them, and often overlooks the many growers, ranchers, and farmers who are making a difference by focusing on building soil, conserving water, and creating a more resilient local food shed.