Sentences with phrase «nearby farming community»

I prefer to eat local food, sourced as close to the farm as possible: I get fresher food, I help support the nearby farming community, and it tastes amazing.

Delgado also notes that erosion and desertification have increased as the glaciers have melting, affecting nearby farming communities in the Valley of Mexico.

Not exact matches

Palm Beach is different from nearby Wellington, where people like Rosemary Phelan (heir to the Cara food empire) have horse farms; and from nearby Windsor, which Hilary and Galen Weston put on the map; and from Lost Tree, the gated community a half - hour north of Palm Beach where such eminences as Jack Welch (of former GE fame) and Toronto mayor John Tory have winter lairs.

Banana farms that are Rainforest Alliance Certified undergo annual audits to ensure that they comply with rigorous social criteria designed to protect workers, families and nearby communities.

1:30 p.m. Silverman's roommate, Brooke Horn, and Kate Lee, a.k.a. «Farmer Kate,» arrive bearing dill flowers and onion blossoms picked at a nearby community farm.

Cary officials have invited Town and Country Homes back for a second round of discussions about developing a 333 - acre former mink farm into a golf course community, which could keep a nearby parcel of land from becoming a gravel pit unwanted by many neighbors.

Next time you're looking for veggies, stop by a nearby farm stand or farmers» market, or get your fill each week by joining a summer CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) with Moose Hill in Sharon or Drumlin Farm in Lincfarm stand or farmers» market, or get your fill each week by joining a summer CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) with Moose Hill in Sharon or Drumlin Farm in LincFarm in Lincoln.

As planned, that store, called Parsons Outpost, will be stocked largely with Hoosick - made goods — including food from nearby farms — and is intended as a community gathering place.

Focusing on just one aspect of lawlessness — sexual predation — the study has found that twice to three times as many sexual predators are flocking to the boom towns as to nearby tourist, ranching and farming communities.

Breckenridge's Area Technology Center — one of 53 centers across the state where students from nearby high schools are sent for career training — has been training students for machine tool jobs since the 1970s, and in the process has transformed the county from a sleepy farming community to a manufacturing hub.

If you're prepared to base yourself outside of Delhi itself but want to be nearby, then Casa Delhiin nearby Noida (and connected by metro) is an eco retreat and farm stay is a truly unique opportunity to experience life on an organic farm — with a focus on yoga, meditation and community living.

Over the course of four months, the farm's raised bed gardens will grow an estimated 1,000 pounds of produce, which will be donated to Broad Street Ministry, a nearby community service organization dedicated to serving the homeless.

I am a member of TRUenergy's Community Liaison Group regarding Waterloo and the nearby proposed Stony Gap wind farms; the impression I have from what I hear through the group is that there are only about six people in the Waterloo area who are strongly opposed to the wind farm.

Red Hook was one of the hardest - hit neighborhoods and is home to an amazing community farm — a place that teaches kids from nearby housing projects how to grow healthy food, provides composting for a huge number of residents, hosts a weekly farmers» market, and runs a terrific CSA [community - supported agriculture] program.

Community - owned wind farms are much more common in Denmark than in Australia and experience seems to show that some degree of ownership makes people much more accepting of nearby wind turbines.

From community - owned wind farms overcoming NIMBYism to local residents installing solar panels on a nearby brewery roof, people power is on the rise.

This birthplace of Uncle Sam was once a famous farming community, but today it serves as cultural melting pot, with residents of all ages enjoying easy access to all of the amenities of nearby Boston.