Sentences with phrase «of cultivating the plants»

There are animals harmed and killed in the process of cultivating the plants I eat.

According to data from FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization), 33 % of human food depends, at some level, of cultivated plants pollinated by bees (KLEIN et al., 2007).

Like a tiny seed carried by a late summer breeze, the idea of cultivating plants on rooftops has spread from Europe to North America and around the world.

Small wonder, as there is nothing else quite like the taste of this edible tuber of a cultivated plant.

Not exact matches

In testimony to a Senate committee in Ottawa, Michael Bourque, head of the Canadian Real Estate Association, flagged risks associated with cultivating cannabis plants, such as the spread of mold and fungus through ventilation systems.

Still, Freeman says, having a plant on every desk or at the end of every row, while unnatural, is still better than no plants at all when it comes to cultivating biophilic design.

All of the plants for our phytocannabinoid rich (PCR) products are grown in the U.S.A. using organic farming practices, cultivated with naturally developed genetic strains of industrial hemp.

The new range of Edwin Jagger Shaving Creams and Soaps is the culmination of a long period of research into creating the best possible shaving products; we place great emphasis on selecting the very best natural ingredients for our range of traditional hard shaving soaps, premium shaving creams and aftershave lotions, many derived from organically cultivated plants.

Forests predominated; plant cover was maintained on cultivated ground, thereby renewing its organic material and nutrients, or natural fertility; the climate contributed efficiently to agricultural yield, and the rivers and underground springs were plentiful and of excellent quality; the fauna was abundant (Espinoza, 168).

Stephen is the lead pastor of Adorn, a church plant in Los Angeles that cultivates community movements for Gospel renewal.

These agriculturalists of the insect world feed exclusively on certain kinds of fungi which they cultivate in subterranean «gardens» on especially collected pieces of leaves and other plant parts.

The life story of the northern Russian wilderness - dweller Nikodim Kozheozersky tells of how this saint, as is customary for hermits, ate only wild plants, an assertion that is not hindered even when the hagiographer announces in the next sentence that he also cultivated turnips for his diet.

In the plant world food was chosen first from wild edible grains and fruits of nature, and then was systematically planted, cultivated, and harvested.

Missionaries organized a heroic fight against the system of cultivation whereby the poor farmers were forced to cultivate Indigo plants against their wishes by European planters.

It was mentioned by Louriero (1790 or 1798) as a cultivated plant of Southern China, but has not been noticed by the Chinese writers of the sixteenth century or in others of more recent date, although nowadays much cultivated in China.

Determined to start a successful business and help cultivate a better way of life for conventional essential oil farmers in disadvantaged Indian villages, Mudar began the enormous task of organizing these laborers and directing them toward a more profitable agricultural pursuit: growing certified organic plants, which by their very nature command higher prices than their conventionally grown counterparts.

My stringy and nearly leafless heirloom tomato plants — the ones I was so excited to cultivate so I could pluck juicy mater orbs straight from the vine and take a big old bite out of their still warm flesh — are as lifeless and lilting as a 6 foot, 95 - pound fashion model prepping for her fall debut on the catwalk.

It is the developed ovary of a plant so it is a fruit, but the USDA has ruled it a vegetable because of how it is grown and cultivated.

«If you are growing it, planting it, cultivating it and caring for it from seed to the final product and then harvesting, malting, fermenting and bottling it — the amount of love and care that goes into that is extraordinary,» he says.

In 1596, he published a list of plants that he cultivated, which is believed to be the first complete description ever published of all the plants in a single garden.

They began growing Christmas trees but the clay - rich soil thwarted that endeavor since it is not conducive to cultivating many types of plants.

The great pepper - growing areas around Kalocsa and Szeged have just the right combination of soil characteristics, temperature, rainfall, and sunshine required to cultivate these plants successfully.

Hemp is a 10,000 year old «superfood» plant documented as having been cultivated for thousands of years.

from http://nutiva.com, «Cultivated for thousands of years throughout Asia and the Middle East before finally making its way to Europe and then the Americas, hemp is an extremely versatile and hardy plant.

The plant was exported from Africa to countries around the world and coffee plants are now cultivated all over, primarily in the equatorial regions of the Americas, Southeast Asia, India, and Africa.

The Frenchman Gabriel de Clieu took a coffee plant to the French territory of Martinique in the Caribbean, from which much of the world's cultivated arabica coffee is descended.

It is commonly accepted that the sunflower originated in the Southeast region of the United States about 5000 years ago, although there is evidence to suggest that the plant was first cultivated in Mexico around 3000 BC.

New Delhi, India — Farmers cultivating rice on 12 million hectares of flood - prone areas in India are planting flood - tolerant rice...

The pepper - growing areas around these two centers of paprika production have just the right combination of soil characteristics, temperature, rainfall, and sunshine required to cultivate these plants successfully.

Is this one a newly cultivated or is it one of those rare wild plants?

A cultivated form of the chiltepin has been grown successfully in Sonora and in the Mesilla Valley of New Mexico, where they are planted as annuals.

Only 120 cultivated plant species and 14 mammalian and avian species provide 90 percent of human food supply.

Bih jolokia, botanically known as Capsicum chinense is extensively cultivated in North Eastern Region of India especially in the states of Assam, Nagaland and Manipur.The plants grow to well over 1 meter and has heaps of fruit, that turn from a light green through a beautiful orange and maturing to a bright red.

I've had many successes and failures with each of the different species of Capsicum (both cultivated & wild) and have tried all sorts of things from differing water regimes, drastic pruning and climatic support to improve plants chances of survival.

It's the selection of seeds, the way of cultivating grains, the sense and awareness of the environment, understanding of the plants» behavior, the choice of cleaning and storing grain berries, the milling process, and the bread making process.

The plantings included both native and cultivated plants, and I was pleased to see extensive stands of chillies, including tabasco, paprika, chiltepin, and even New Mex Conquistador.

Determined to cultivate the land, Ray and Patty Magnussen tirelessly planted the cuttings that would yield some of Baja's most premiere wines.

«Chili Colorado» [red chile] is an appropriate term used, also, to designate this product of a plant indigenous to America, though most extensively cultivated near the western coasts of the Mediterranean sea.

Providing a wide range of plant and animal life, in wild and cultivated areas — which protect biodiversity and the health of the ecosystem — allows farms to be fully integrated into the natural world.

Not having time to plant, cultivate and harvest produce is not an excuse for me not to do it — it's a fact of MY life.

Under the Youth in Agriculture programme of Planting for Food and Jobs, ten thousand (10,000) youth were supported to cultivate eight hundred (800) hectares and ten thousand, three hundred and twenty (10,320) hectares of rice and maize, respectively.

Before the introduction of the Field Scale Evaluation programme, there were four tests that any plant needed to pass before it could be cultivated.

But in the comfort of a laboratory and a greenhouse, a plant breeder can create a wild peanut hybrid capable of breeding with the cultivated peanut.

«Although used; cultivated plants, wheat, lentils and peas were not fully domesticated and contributed only a small amount to the diet of the Boncuklu community.»

And some Indian farmers in the state of Bihar have begun to plant hybrid rice strains because they are drought - tolerant and can be planted on lands that were previously difficult to successfully cultivate.

Throughout the tropics, families typically cultivate it for their own consumption on small parcels of land, although in Asia and in parts of Latin America the plant is also grown commercially for use in animal feed and starch - based products.

«It's almost as if we had traveled back in time and sampled the same plant that gave rise to cultivated peanuts from the gardens of these ancient people,» said David Bertioli, an International Peanut Genome Initiative, or IPGI, plant geneticist of the Universidade de Brasília, who is working at UGA.

The region is right next to the region where, even today, the most primitive types of cultivated peanut are grown, and the date is right in the time frame that plant domestication was happening in South America.»

Researchers at the University of Georgia, working with the International Peanut Genome Initiative, have discovered that a wild plant from Bolivia is a «living relic» of the prehistoric origins of the cultivated peanut species.

Inmates who care for crops and plants in prison - yard gardens not only cultivate new skills and learn to work cooperatively — they also gain an increased awareness of and respect for nature