Sentences with phrase «of growing food»

But despite increased interest from the media, policy makers and the community, there seems to be a lack of hard evidence showing the benefits of growing food in urban settings.

By making it a daily habit, you are making them understand the difficulty of growing food and in the end the importance of not wasting food.

That's why she was very connected to the concept of growing food and eating real food through a plant - based diet.

At a time of growing food insecurity and climate change, we can't afford to let this continue.

Children are involved in the life cycle of growing food on the farm — from planting to harvesting and tasting.

The idea of growing food for human colonies in space could be a reality very soon.»

One of the easiest (and also most effective) ways of growing food in small spaces is sprouting.

From backyard slaughter to urban bees TreeHugger is more than familiar with the idea of growing food in the cities where we live.

Siddhi Shot offers ancillary brand services to accommodate the needs of any growing food business, including:

Organic and truly sustainable agriculture has more nutrients and less toxic pesticides than any other method of growing food in the USA.

It is an incredibly productive means of growing food, allowing a person to sustain themselves on less than 100m2.

Illustrated with photos, diagrams, and sidebars on every page, it also considers food practices around the world, the global impact of growing food, and feeding the planet's hungry citizens.

Kristyna and Marek Milde created a temporary vegetable garden using shopping carts, soil, and plants to experience the process of growing food instead of buying it.

Where people or work animals formerly toiled in the fields, the petroleum - powered machines of industrial agriculture now do the work of growing food.

This is a rare opportunity for a Managing Director to take the helm of this growing food manufacturing business in Ireland.

And some parents worry that the policy would undermine the educational efforts at several schools that have their own gardens and teach students about healthy eating and the farm - to - table movement by integrating the hands - on experience of growing food.

Richardson, who also farms 10 acres in Washington's Skagit Valley, sees firsthand the difficulty of growing food locally.

Improper diets, the lack of exercise and the practice of growing foods and meat animals using chemicals and hormones affect these systems.

«I'm a huge advocate of growing your food.

It is very comfortable to walk, dance, and eat in (without fear of growing a food baby)!

Each illustrated activity encourages students to think critically and creatively about a different aspect of growing food.

Many schools in multicultural areas have used their kitchen garden programs to help bring together diverse communities with a common love of growing food, such as Hebersham Public School in Western Sydney which has many students of Pacific and Maori backgrounds.

A school has won a # 750 prize to build a garden worthy of growing food for the healthiest packed lunch in Essex.

Over the last decade, Dotolo has established himself as a founding member of the growing food movement in Los Angeles.

They cut down on the energy demands of shipping food from the countryside to city markets, while at the same time offering an alternative to clearing ever more wilderness in the name of growing food.

The activity of growing food offers city dwellers the chance to take exercise and get fresh air whilst the food produced increases access to fresh produce to people traditionally furthest from the source of production.

For those of us with garden beds full of annual vegetables that require replanting each year, and careful attention throughout the growing season to keep them alive and thriving, the thought of having an ecosystem in place that can take a lot of the work out of growing food, while also providing multiple functions (soil building, creating shade and wind barriers, serving as wildlife and pollinator habitats, harvesting and retaining water, etc.) is quite appealing.

I work in researching and propagating edible perennial plants and also in designing forest gardens - an ingenious system of growing food through an interconnected perennial plant community, modeled on a natural woodland.

From new urbanist developments featuring farms and community gardens to urban farms and community gardens tucked away in vacant lots, parks, school yards and rooftops, the concept of growing food where you live is taking root all across America.

Our method of growing food is also exhausting our aquifers and salting our irrigated lands.

Murray also enjoys experimenting with means of growing food, such as his home made aquaponic farm.

Can it really help reduce the impact of growing food and raising animal proteins, or are there unsee impacts occurring elsewhere?

There has never been a more urgent need to explore less toxic and more nurturing ways of growing our food.»

Ma Earth can no longer grow food after we pollute the bejesus out of her and so we build a greenhouse in space to preserve the idea of growing food.

While African countries are beginning to explore the possibilities of farming biofuel crops for local household and domestic grid energy use, the consequences of growing biofuel for export to the wealthy countries so that they may maintain their energy intensive lifestyles, instead of growing food for consumption by Africans could be severe.

They're in the business of regenerating the soil as much as they're in the business of growing food and no organic farmer is going to «overlook» heavy metals in their soil.