Sentences with phrase «planting orchards»

She's nice enough if I come in and plant my feet on the desk, but she certainly doesn't complain when I'm out all day planting orchards, fishing, fashion shopping and hanging out with the locals.

They put in a pumpkin patch last fall and plan to plant an orchard with stone fruit and fig trees.

We have young cattle on the property and a number of chickens roam our newly planted orchard.

To take advantage of the wide swath of lawn in front of the courthouse, he planted an orchard of 100 - plus crab - apple trees in interlocking diamond patterns.

You take the seeds from this tree and plant an orchard...

Not exact matches

So the orchard experts purposefully plant certain weeds around trees and let them grow as much as they want.

Owner Skip Foppiano's great - grandparents were among the earliest settlers in the area that is now Waterloo in central California, and they planted one of the first walnut orchards in the region.

An avocado orchard uses twice as much water as a regular forest, and much of that water is diverted from the natural habitat where other plants and animals can use it.

With the end of the Civil War, agriculture started to become more commercialized, and the Lyman family got into the game with its first orchard planted in the 1890s.

In India in the 16th century, the Moghul ruler Akbar planted a huge orchard, called Lakh Bagh because the supposed number of trees was one lakh (100,000).

The Staggs have planted 600 trees along trellises, which allow for easier maintenance because they keep the trees short and close together, making for a compact orchard.

William Smith, son of convict parents, settled in Tasmania's Huon Valley in the 1800's and planted the first apple tree for the orchard still in use today in 1888.

As a result, many of the nearby growers who may have needed to turn to producing grapes are, instead, planting more organic apple orchards.

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.

The orchard planted diverse wildflowers around the almond trees to provide year - round sustenance for local bees.

To date, the 50 States for Good community giving program has benefited 5.5 million people and dozens of communities through projects as diverse as tree planting, sustainable hiking trails, a community orchard and meals for neighbors in need.

As the Valley evolved into an agricultural region, orchards were planted around the tree, but it stood firm.

This year we add more apple trees and pear trees to the orchard; more raspberry, blueberry, and blackberry stalks to the ones we began last year; and we plant a big patch of strawberries where the veggie garden last was.

«This is really such a wonderful opportunity for us to reflect on our past in this beautiful, historic park,» said Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan, speaking Sunday morning, shovel in hand, as the beginnings of an apple orchard were being planted along a slope above Washington Park lake near Thurlow Terrace.

He cultivates wild, highly pollinating orchard mason bees to encourage plant life.

Hunter - gatherers have little or no stored food, and no concentrated food sources, like an orchard or a herd of cows: they live off the wild plants and animals they obtain each day.

In contrast, the authors said, new cider apple acreage in the US is planted with higher - density orchards on semidwarfing rootstocks, and apples are harvested by hand.

The 1st commercial tart cherry orchards in Michigan were planted in 1893.

In this helpful handbook, Phillips explains the ins and outs of planting and maintaining a home orchard to fruition.

His favorite place was his father's apple orchard because he loved apples and this inspired him to introduce and plant apple seeds through the frontiers of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

Johnny Appleseed was an American pioneer and is best known for roaming the countryside planting apple seeds from which many apple orchards are said to have begun.

Before long, the dry Mexican earth was cleared of mesquite and planted with orchards, pecan trees, and gardens.

I take care of the kids, raised cattle, plant and take care of 5 acres of vegetable gardens and fruit orchards to help feed my family, keep house, do the finances, help with the regular yard work and generally keep my family healthy and happy.

Here my love of plants, animals and all things natural was fostered through working with cattle, pigs, poultry, sheep, the market garden the orchard, and more formal studies in agriculture and biology.

Once we escaped the urban sprawl of the ancient city, I could glimpse grain fields and mango orchards behind the roadside tree plantings of jamun and eucalyptus.

In addition to having 18 holes with an ocean view, the golf course features dozens of unique tropical plants and trees including several different types of palms, monkey pod trees, banana trees, coffee and pineapple plantations, lychee, citrus and star fruit orchards as well as macadamia and kukui nut trees.

The residents of Lomaland also transformed their Point Loma neighborhood by planting so many trees, orchards and shrubs that the formerly barren neighborhood is now known as the «Wooded Area».

[14] Fruit trees would also be planted along the external border of the garden (while wealthier people with more land planted them in orchards).

This property, our bordering riverbed and back property are lush with rare plants, haliconias, orchids, tropical fruit orchards and tropical bird song; truly a paradise for bird lovers with over 18 species.

Each zone has palms, herbs, fragrant plants, orchards, pavilions and orchid displays.

There were areas for livestock, birds, vegetables gardens, fruit orchards and exotic plants that were brought from all over the world.

Your orchard is making me regret where I planted my fruit trees.

Most of the vines are planted on west facing slopes, leaving 200 for fields of wildflowers, cultivated gardens, old growth white oak trees, fruit orchards and waterways.

'' A marijuana patch looks like an orchard, it has to be separated out in rows and the male plants are removed,» Meyer said.

A 10 - acre fruit orchard, primarily apples, will be planted as part of the Oka Trees for Hope project.

Its other sustainable design features include geothermal wells for heating and cooling, daylighting and fresh air delivery throughout, an extended botanical garden that recovers nutrients from circulating water on - site, and a landscape that offers social gathering spaces, instructional gardens and orchards, and a newly planted forest grove, which has begun the long process of re-establishing the habitat of the building's northern Ohio location.

Terraces, hugelkultur, floodbreak (aka windbreak) plantings, diversion channels, maintaining wild wetlands as sinks, building creekbed pathways, using orchards as buffers, impregnating poorer - quality soils with hydrophobic biochar, progressively alternating such features with dykes laid out to fractionally draw overflows and slow flow, proper programs of dredging and berming, and on and on, there is no reason a flood plain could not be made so robust by industrious (as opposed to industrial), intelligent, conscientious (as opposed to council consultant) planning as to be impervious to a 1,000 year flood, and oh by the way, make the land more profitably productive and lucratively livable, and more resistant to drought, wildfire, invasive species and extinction of native species too.

Adding substantially to the benefits of milder northern winters (extended growing seasons, cattle farms and apple orchards in Greenland, and things of that nature) is the effect of increased CO2 on primary production in the food chain (green plants).

In July 2005, the Moroccan government, responding to severe drought, announced that it was allocating $ 778 million to canceling farmers» debts and converting cereal - planted areas into less vulnerable olive and fruit orchards.

We have three gardens (another large one in process) and planted a small orchard (> 20 trees).

«Apple began working with an arborist years ago to source trees, including varieties that once made up the bountiful orchards of Silicon Valley; more than 9,000, many of them drought - resistant, will have been planted by the time the campus is finished.

The plan for this lot is to add to my pear and apple orchard plant 60 trees and wait a decade.

The mature garden consists of a large outbuilding / barn, a pond, a patio with pizza oven in the kilns, a wild flower meadow, an orchard, a large fruit and vegetable garden and some significant tree planting.

While you're in the attic, bring down those apple baskets from past orchard trips; they make beautiful containers for potted plants.