Sentences with phrase «of organic land»

There are, however, some very large scale organic farms e.g. Pavich Family Farms in California with over 1 600 ha of organic land and 200 ha in conversion to organic.

Gene and Kathy Davis farm 3,500 acres of organic land in southeast Saskatchewan by North Portal.

Keith and Monica Neu farm 1,200 acres of organic land in Saskatchewan's northeast grain belt near the town of Hudson Bay.

Not exact matches

It doesn't take a lot of land to grow organic produce.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Walmart Canada's 12 waste programs — including cardboard, organics, metal and others — has resulted in the diversion of 72 % of Walmart Canada's waste from municipal land - fill sites.

A year into the project, the weedy field has a compost heap full of organic waste from the kitchen; a growing orchard with biblical fruit trees including a fig and an apple; a Havdalah circle where visitors and residents of the farm gather weekly for a religious ceremony marking the end of Shabbat; and a shmitta area — a part of the land that is allowed to lie fallow for one year out of every seven, as commanded in the Torah.

This destruction of elements vital to the ecology and renewal of the land — elimination of entire communities, their flora and fauna, their roots and seeds, their organic soils....

What will be the cost of producing energy from organic materials as the demand for such energy escalates and requires more and more agricultural land?

The land is deprived of nutrients and organic matter which is essential for maintaining productive soil - structure.

Actually these marginalised people lived by nature's bounties - the dalits through agricultural labour on land, the tribals by the resources of the forests, the fisherfolk of the sea and other water sources and the women by the organic functions of family life.

Alix Heilman, a sales associate at Mercaris, notes that this growth trend is likely to continue, particularly given the organic acreage growth programs that have been launched by companies such as General Mills, which has vowed to add 3,000 acres of organic farming land to its source pool over the next three years.

So when I was at the grocery store yesterday and they were out of organic parsley, my eyes landed on a gorgeous bunch of organic rainbow carrots with their pristine, frilly greens still attached.

But the whole farm is certified organic and we have some area farmers who do hay and grasses on a portion of the land.

Currently, only about one percent of global agricultural land is dedicated to organic crops, so there's room for expansion, according to the authors.

There are 1 million ha of certified organic land in Africa and 580,000 certified producers, and this represents only a fraction of the overall organic production taking place on the continent.

The property had been undergoing organic certification but organics was the furthest thing from the minds of the couple when they looked for land.

As part of the CSO panel we advocated for organic agriculture as a means of farming that increases the resilience of soils to both water stress and nutrient loss and which contributes to combating desertification by preventing soil erosion and land degradation.

According to the Post, currently «only about one percent of global agricultural land is dedicated to organic crops.»

For a growing number of wine producers, organic is not just a expanding market to tap into: it's a fundamental philosophy of their business and a necessity for the longevity of their enterprise and land.

With only 0.5 percent of crop and pasture land in organic, according to USDA that leaves 99.5 percent of farm acres in the U.S. at risk of -LSB-...]

In fifteen countries 10 percent or more of all agricultural land is organic, another new record in the global organic statistics.

Mulloon Creek Natural Farms is 2500 hectares of certified organic and biodynamic land (1100 hectares grazing pasture).

This comprehensive collection of the latest available data (2016) on organic agriculture worldwide contains data on area, operators, and retail sales: 57.8 million hectares of organic agricultural land and organic products with a total value of almost 90 billion US dollars were sold globally.

The countries with the largest organic share of agricultural land of their total farmland are the Liechtenstein (37.7 percent), French Polynesia (31.3 percent), and Samoa (22.4 percent).

Almost haft of the global organic agricultural land is in Oceania (27.3 million hectares), followed by Europe (23 percent; 13.5 million hectares), and Latin America (12 percent; 7.1 million hectares).

Michael says, «During times of extreme climatic conditions livestock may be agisted on alternative pasture; however under the requirements of the Australian Certified Organic Standard livestock must be bought back onto organic land for at least six months before regaining organic status.

Tempore's Export Manager Elena Hernandez Hibbert noted, «We're at Vinexpo to help people understand that organic production isn't just about sales numbers, but also about the process of working with what the land wants to yield.

As a member of the Sustainable Food Trade Association (SFTA), we've signed a pledge committing to reporting annually the company's performance in the 11 - action categories that include organic & land use, distribution & sourcing, energy, climate change & emissions, water use & quality, solid waste reduction, packaging & marketing materials, labor, animal care, sustainability education, and governance & community engagement.

Even if 60 % of agriculture would convert to organic farming, concentrated feed were reduced by 50 % and food waste by 50 %, it would result in a food system with significantly decreased environmental impacts, including lower overall greenhouse gas emissions, and only a marginal increase in agricultural land area.

However, critics argue that organic agriculture may have lower yields and would therefore need more land to produce the same amount of food as conventional farms, resulting in more widespread deforestation and biodiversity loss, and thus undermining the environmental benefits of organic practices5.

The rules stipulate that land used for organic production must be free of artificial pesticides, fertilizers and other chemicals for at least three years.

Australian Organic members own the right to play a part in our strategic agenda to protect the organic marketplace, promote products that bear the Australian Certified Organic logo and make a major difference to consumer health and wellbeing for generations, all of which in turn helps farmers to care for land and animals organically, sustainably and humanely.

There is much debate over the relative merits of conventional farming, which has a large environmental impact on the land it uses, and organic farming, which may require greater land use for the same yield.

Three point five per cent of agricultural land in the UK is organic.

Organics is big business and it's growing rapidly, 500,000 hectares of land are converted to organic every year in the Union.

Organics is big business and it's growing rapidly — 500,000 hectares of land is converted to organic every year in the EU.

In eleven countries more than 10 % of all agricultural land is organic.

The new organic milk spray drying plant will be built at North Geelong in Victoria on land adjacent to an existing processing operation built in 2016 by the Organic Dairy Farmers of Australia, which operates at a site close to the former Ford engine plant.

More than 10 % of farmland organic in 11 countries The countries with the largest share of organic agricultural land of their total farmland are the Falkland Islands (36.3 %), followed by Liechtenstein (31 %) and Austria (19.5 %).

The Cootamundra property, comprising 1240 hectares of farming country and 400 hectares of conserved bushland, was already in conversion to organic with Australian Certified Organic when they acquired the land.

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We inspect and certify more than 250,000 hectares of organic or in - conversion land, as well as hundreds of food processing and other organic enterprises.

They are irrigated and dry land farmers and ranchers, many of whom were practicing organic agricultural techniques before organic certification was even available.

Going organic freed Straus to fully embrace his deeply held belief in stewardship of the land.

You will require certified organic land with sufficient acreage for crop isolation, irrigation, and knowledge of seed processing techniques.

To sustain the integrity of the organic process and keep the approximate ratio of one cow per acre of land, Albert wouldn't add any more cows to his herd.

Worldwide there are 2.3 million organic farmers, 43.7 million ha of certified organic land and US$ 80 billion in consumer purchases of organic.

Because industrial agriculture was on the rise and milk prices were unrealistically low to sustain family farming, Straus saw an exciting opportunity — Create an organic marketplace; one which reflected the true costs of production and promoted responsible land stewardship, offering a viable, principled, sustainable business model for small dairy farms.

«The high - quality flavor of our milk starts at the organic family farms, with sustainable land stewardship and good animal welfare practices.