Sentences with phrase «rural farm life»

His formative works of this period show an expressive figurative style, while his subjects are mainly drawn from rural farm life, and include the people, buildings, tools and machinery typical of the environment.

An abstract sculpture by Thornton Dial composed of the painted skeleton bones of cows, references the cycles of life and death, rural farm life, and white supremacy.

The Farmhouse Suite at Vermont Grand View Farm lures families away from their hectic lives, inviting them to slow down and experience the peacefulness of rural farm life.

Not exact matches

Growing up in rural Michigan, Jesse Vollmar watched as technology transformed the world around him, while life on the farm remained labor - intensive and stuck in the past.

In states where farming is a common industry (Iowa, Wisconsin), you'll find plates that depict rural life.

They go into painstaking detail as to how late Bronze Age Jewish rural life should be led, dictating how they should eat, what they should eat, how they should farm, how they should interact with other late Bronze Age Jews, how they should practice their religion.

I'm guessing L4H is someone living back on the farm and has never left his rural community, the only life he knows is that of his family and close church friends.

She admitted to me that what she really wanted was to be living on a farm in rural Connecticut, raising a horde of children and embroidering tea towels.

They are rural folks from Oklahoma who lose their farm in the dustbowl years of the «30s and trek to California to look for a new life.

Small farms also strengthen rural economies, preserve important ecosystems, and help to protect a way of life that is increasingly under threat.

More than half of El Salvador's population lives in rural areas, working on farms of less than 3 ha.

(Living in a small rural farm town in South Dakota in the early 80's, we did NOT have Costco to rely on.)

We live in a very rural small farming community, a tight little valley of about 250.

Amanda and her husband Steve live in rural Maine, where they recently bought a farmhouse and are renovating it alongside their four children, Calvin, Ezra, Adelaide and Harper (plus a growing list of pets and farm animals.).

Blogger Kate lives on a pickle farm in a rural community in Victoria, Australia.

If you're on a rural farm with perfectly healthy children you might have a different safety regimen than if you live in a city with a severely disabled child.

She and her husband Walter are the proud parents of a son who came into their lives through adoption, and live on a ranchette in rural Texas with a small herd of rescued Great Danes and other farm animals.

I live in rural Nebraska — smack in the middle of farm country.

Welcome to Old Sturbridge Village - a «must - see» New England attraction which depicts life in an early 19th - century rural Village, featuring costumed historians, antique buildings, water - powered mills, and a working farm.

A third of Wales» population live in rural areas where farming and agricultural supply chain businesses are the backbone of local economies.

He added that the construction of a standard road network would ensure the complement other economic development efforts as it would enable people living in the rural areas to convey their products from the farms without overwhelming challenges.

Despite hoping to be the people's champion for a constituency dominated by dairy and beef farming, he previously said that if rural life was «so bad» they should «move to the town».

In 2011, Arbuckle and his colleagues used the annual Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll to survey over 1,200 farmers in the state about their views on the subject.

On patrol one day last fall in Blythe, another California town along the Colorado, Matuska drove his SUV looking for large green lawns in rural areas that he hadn't noticed before — a new farm field or some other sign of small - scale irrigation bringing life to a red desert.

The trees play an absolutely critical role in rural life,» observes Peter Läderach of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, who has led research into the effects of climate change on cacao farming in Ivory Coast and Ghana.

The solar panels on his home in rural Kentucky generate all the electricity his family needs to live on and work a 1200 - acre cattle farm.

Molly Yeh is a former Brooklynite who ditched the big city for life on a rural Midwestern farm.

Living in rural British Columbia, we developed a deep respect for sustainable farming and local foods.

Farming in general and living in rural areas were also considered to be risks.

This led to years of studying Philippine nutrition and dietary patterns first hand while living in a rural farming community in the Philippines.

It's located in a rural farming valley and showcases examples of life during the period when Spain ruled in the North and Central American continent.

young at heart, athletic, fit, petite, down to earth rural farm gal whose surrounded by equines and other 4 leggeds - also a few feathered friends - am alternative, into sustainable living and permiculture gardening

FarmersOnly is a great niche site for anyone who prefers rural living and agrarian or farming lifestyles.

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The setting is rural Texas in the early 1900s, where itinerant farm laborers work and live under open skies.

Adapted from the 1924 novel by Ernest Perochon, the narrative covers several years in the life of the Paridier farm in rural France, beginning in 1915 and running through the end of World War I. With husbands, sons and brothers all shipped off to combat, it's up to the matriarch Hortense (Baye) to run the show, plowing the fields and reaping the crops with the help of her daughter, Solange (Laura Smet), and a brand - new farmhand, Francine (Bry), whom she brings on during the harvest season.

Bill, Delbert, Roscoe and Lyman Ward, were four barely literate bachelor brothers, aged 59 to 71, living in squalor on their 99 - acre dairy farm in Munnsville, a rural town in central New York.

A gang of crooks think they've found the perfect safehouse on a remote rural farm, but their safety from the law turns into a fight for their lives.

A period drama set in post-World War II Mississippi, based on a novel of the same name by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound tells the story of two men — one African American, one white — returning home from the war to go to work on a rural Mississippi farm, each struggling to readjust to the realities of American life, including the intense racism of the period.

Emmy nominee Dee Rees («Bessie,» «Pariah») came to Sundance with «Mudbound,» a story of «two men who return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.»

Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.

Then there are Andrew Garfield (Breathe) as advocate Robin Cavendish, one of the longest - living polio survivors in Britain; Benedict Cumberbatch (The Current War) as electricity titan Thomas Edison; Jason Clarke (Mudbound) as Henry McAllan, a city worker who relocates his family to a rural farm post-World War II; Hugh Jackman (The Greatest Showman) as P.T. Barnum; and, less likely, James Franco (The Disaster Artist), completely losing himself in a Method turn as failed filmmaker - turned - cult icon Tommy Wiseau.

«Mudbound» Release Date: TBD Director: Dee Rees Starring: Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jonathan Banks, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell and Mary J. Blige Synopsis: Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.

Director Dee Rees and Virgil Williams» screenplay (based on Hillary Jordan's novel) is vast in its ambitions, featuring five major characters — living on a farm in rural Mississippi in the years before, during, and after World War II — whose lives, motives, and hopes are the central concern.

Julian Dennison (Paper Planes, Shopping) plays Ricky Baker, a rebellious, chubby, twelve - year - old foster thug - life wanna - be who ends up dumped by an exasperated social worker (House, Whale Rider) to a childless couple, kind - hearted Bella (Te Wiata, Housebound) and her cynical husband Hec (Neill, Escape Plan) a last - chance effort from the foster placement, out on a remote farm in rural New Zealand.

One family — a father (Krasinski), mother (Blunt, who's married to Krasinski off - screen) and their children; I don't think we ever heard anyone's name — remains, and we quickly learn that the family's survival is due to their ability to live on their rural farm in silence.

Sheila Roberts: Filmmaker Dee Rees assembles a powerful ensemble cast in «Mudbound» to bring to life Hillary Jordan's international bestseller about two families living in rural Mississippi following WWII who face the harsh realities of farming and the brutal social barriers of the Jim Crow South.

Weaver is Alice Goodwin, a school nurse who lives on a farm in rural Wisconsin with her husband Howard (David Strathairn, Limbo, A Midsummer's Night Dream) and their two children Emma and Claire.

The film illustrates the lives of white and black families in rural Mississippi as they confront the brutal realities of prejudice, farming, and friendship in a divided post World War II era.

Plot: This Netflix film follows two who men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.