Sentences with phrase «plant a tree farm»

Under their rules, it's OK to destroy an ancient or mature forest and plant a tree farm.

Some will have moved because a new breed of carbon entrepreneur was determined to plant a tree farm on what used to be a community - managed forest, in order to collect lucrative credits.

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Since then, the Porras family has plowed $ 3 million into the 1,882 - acre farm, planting two million coffee trees and installing electricity and running water.

MOORHEAD, Minn. — Mark Askegaard always knows it's time to plant when the snow is out of the tree rows at Askegaard Organic Farm just 12 miles...

Every time a customer purchases a bag of coffee in one of Starbucks participating U.S. stores over the next year, a rust - resistant coffee tree will be planted on a C.A.F.E. Practices farm.

We then picked up a $ 100 olive tree from a local farm and planted that in the front yard.

Sustainable agricultural practices, such as those we promote through the Sustainable Agriculture Network standard, offer simple, practical solutions, such as maintaining big buffer zones, preferably planted with native trees, between farm fields and waterways.

Farmers using climate - smart practices understand that trees do a lot on farms: they can act as windbreaks, reducing soil erosion; they can enrich soil; they can filter water, resulting in higher water quality; they provide shade for workers and shade - loving plants; they create habitat for wildlife and wildlife corridors; they suck up and store greenhouse gasses — the list goes on.

The farm has even partnered with a global science team to measure the amount of carbon the farm is sucking out of the air with its flourishing trees and coffee plants.

In the past decades the farm has planted more than 50,000 shade trees, creating natural buffers around streams and water springs.

In addition, I planted indigenous trees around the farm and bought personal protective equipment for my pluckers.

She then started «growing fertilizer» by planting avocado trees that provide shade for delicate coffee bushes, organic nutrients for the soil (the fallen leaves that now carpet much of the farm), and extra income for the family when the fruits are in season.

Over 50,000 coffee trees have been planted since 2000, and over two dozen farms have received organic certification.

Halter Ranch conserves water, resulting in over a 50 % reduction in irrigation; captures rain and winery water bringing over two million gallons back to irrigation ponds; and farms 281 acres of vines without removing oak trees or displacing existing wildlife and plant life.

As a result of low yields due to poor farming practices, aging trees and limited access to inputs such as fertilizer and planting materials.

But this holds promise for farms that are growing sun coffee or shade monoculture as they can gain credits for planting shade trees or for reforestation — the more the better.

Farms that earn the Rainforest Alliance Certified seal protect shade trees, plant native species, maintain wildlife corridors and conserve natural resources.

Productivity: limited knowledge of farming techniques, limited access to planting materials, pests and disease Environmental: climate change, aging trees, unfertile soil Social: limited access to education, gender inequality, fewer leadership roles for women Financial: poverty, lack of access to finance

Our Indonesian business supports a community farming organisation in East Java in planting a variety of crop trees on 45.5 hectares at

Our Indonesian business supports a community farming organisation in East Java in planting a variety of crop trees on 45.5 hectares at Sumberejo Arjuna Mountain.

One high - profile orchard is at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, partner of Dan Barber's Blue Hill at Stone Barns, where farm director Jack Algiere has been planting pawpaws, including 48 of Peterson's trees, since 2005.

Moon Lake announced it was planting more than 6000 native trees and shrubs to provide a buffer for three of its North - West Tasmanian dairy farms, in collaboration with Cradle Coast NRM.

A research project funded by the European Union found that the diversity of landscape and farming systems was greater in organic farms, regarding land use types, crops, livestock, plantings (hedges, solitary shrubs, trees) and flora.

Namely the challenge was that the place he planted the hundreds of trees was on our grandparents farm, a two and a half hour drive away.

The Southampton Town planning board is expected to issue a decision by Thursday on «Today» show host Matt Lauer's controversial proposal to plant dozens of trees and shrubs at his Water Mill horse farm.

Another extension has been granted for Southampton Planning Board members to consider making a decision in a tree - planting dispute between Matt Lauer and a neighbor of the «Today» show host's Water Mill horse farm.

One tree farm in the Southern Tier has started planting a species that seems to be more resistant to the disease.

However, he said, the Farm Bureau does recognize that a cap - and - trade system can offer benefits to growers, who sequester carbon by planting crops and trees.

On four farms in Brentwood, Calif., about an hour outside Berkeley, he has planted a mix of shrubs and forbs near blackberry bushes and cherry trees.

For about $ 4 per tree, Orion can screen for hybrid tenera palms with Good Karma and help farms and nurseries cull unproductive plants before investing too much time and resources in them.

Trees were planted at the U.S. Department of Agriculture research farm in Fort Pierce, Florida, and were analyzed over 5 years.

As tropical forests become increasingly broken up by roads, farm fields, pastures and other developments, corridors of trees provide vital pathways for pollinators and contribute to a rich diversity of plant species, scientists have confirmed.

Outside these lands, growers should move toward shade - cocoa farming, which keeps some of the large existing trees, with cocoa plants interspersed among them.

To see if nonfood plants could be a source of a biofuel the way corn is, researchers followed six alternative crops and farming systems in so - called marginal lands over 20 years, including poplar trees and alfalfa.

The best maple syrups are not harvested from a mono - crop maple tree farm planted specifically for maple syrup production.

These community run farms use a technique known as Analog forestry, which imitates the native biodiversity of the region's flora and fauna, by planting in the shade of tree canopies to assist in replenishing the nutrition and moisture of the soil.

The small trees I plucked out of the ground in my black yard (after all my house sits on an old Christmas tree farm) and planted them with a little black earth.

Today's students can experience life on a colonial farm as they learn how to craft a weather vane or a sundial; dye wool or weave a pot holder; plant an herb garden or a pineapple; measure a tree or prepare a dandelion salad; and make Jack Wax or maple cream from maple syrup.

Putting that plan into action, Common Ground routinely plants trees with its students, teaches them about sustainability by gardening and farming right on the school grounds, and recently unveiled their new sustainable building which uses geothermal, solar, and a rainwater treatment system.

Missouri From the Superintendent of Public Schools, in his annual report: «Let this love for planting trees, shrubs, vines, and flowers be encouraged and stimulated in the school - room and not only will the school - yards profit thereby, but the now barren farm - yards and pastures will remain the recipients of your instruction.»

Tree - planting projects frequently meet resistance from local people because land that could be grazed or farmed is converted to forest.

It is encouraging that the FAO statistics indicate that the planting of trees on farms is increasing even as trees in forests are decreasing due to deforestation.

I gravitated towards high - quality dividend stocks because you only have to make a decision once and the ownership process is satisfying in the same way that planting an oak tree on the family farm and watching it grow for decades is satisfying.

Lamb Meal From Humanely Raised, Grass Fed Lambs Sustainably Farmed Brown Rice Sustainably Farmed Rice Canola Oil from Sustainably Farmed Canola Plants (preserved with mixed tocopherols) Olive Oil from Old Growth Trees (preserved with mixed tocopherols) Natural Flavor Potassium Chloride Calcium Carbonate Vitamin E Supplement Niacin Supplement d - Calcium Pantothenate Vitamin B - 12 Supplement Vitamin A Acetate Vitamin D - 3 Supplement d - Biotin Riboflavin Supplement Thiamine Mononitrate Pyridoxine Hydrochloride Folic Acid Iron Proteinate Zinc Proteinate Manganese Proteinate Copper Proteinate Sodium Selenite Cobalt Protenate Ethylenediamine Dihydroiodide

Top crop: Indigenous to the tropical forests of Central America, cacao trees have grown wild in Belize for some 3,000 years — flourishing in the humid microclimates of cenotes — and farmed since around 250 B.C. Today Belize's cacao farmers, mostly in the country's southern Toledo District, cultivate the native Criollo plant, which is considered to be the highest quality cacao bean native to Central America.

On our way through Musanze village, my view of cobblestone streets and mud - brick houses transitions to that of farm fields with rows of plants filled with daisy - like flowers and eucalyptus trees.

Electricity is generated onsite using 216 solar photo - voltaic panels and some 250 Monterrey pine trees have been planted on the farm as part of a sustainable firewood programme.

The route runs through the Atlantic Forest, until we get to São Francisco Farm, where there will be a tour to the local cocoa planting and processing activities, with the opportunity of tasting it right from the tree.

One company in the U.S. cut down 5 acres of trees to build a solar farm to power a plant for the production of plastic bags.

In the early 2000s, 50 miles from the MO I was helping my good mate (rip) install his self - sufficient solar power system w a battery pack unit which then was big as a car on a trailer, and helped out planting out his small plantation of Olive Trees into the ex-cow paddocks... he and his wife bought a 120 acre ex-cattle farm to regenerate that along the lines of New Age Healing Greenie Principles of Self - Sufficency and Self - Responsibility... they disconnected from the electricity grid as well.