Sentences with phrase «small farming community»

Saibara settled in Webster and established a small farming community of Japanese Christians.

Located just 30 miles outside of Chicago, the city began as a small farming community.

Over the years, Brockton, MA has grown from a small farming community to a diverse city with more than 100,000 residents.

«Freedom Village» is Moon & Jeon's new series under the umbrella of their ongoing project «News from Nowhere», and is based on their artistic research on the small farming community of Tae Sung Dong, otherwise known as Freedom Village.

The town grew from a small farming community and Old Town Cottonwood retains the charm of those early beginnings.

Meaning «place of rest» this once sleepy little town started out as a small farming community producing citrus and Virginia tobacco, but now it is known as the Platinum City due to its extensive mining.

Dr. Gross grew up in a small farming community in northeastern Pennsylvania called, Sugarloaf.

Located just over 30 miles north of Little Rock, Conway began as a small farming community but its economic focus has since shifted to education.

Wilsonville began as a small farming community but has transformed into one of the busiest towns in the Portland metro area.

First a small farming community, then a bustling railroad depot and later an entertainment hotspot in the roaring»20s, Grove City today combines a small - town feel with big city appeal.

When Hannah Storey's father moves his family from the city to the small farming community of River Bend, Hannah quickly becomes the favorite target of the town bully.

Peopled with a memorable cast of characters, Flagg's chatty historical novel spans nearly 150 years in the life, growth and eventual decline of this small farming community in southern Missouri.

I grew up in a small farming community in eastern Washington, about 100 miles downwind from Mount St. Helens.

I took my first steps on the dirt roads that ran through the small farming community, tiny rocks and dry dirt getting stuck between my toes and piercing the soft soles of my feet.

Dean is a native of Maquoketa, Iowa, a small farming community in east central Iowa.

The impression intensifies in the final moments, as Ashley ruminates on the simple dignity of a small farming community — a privileged seeker of «primitive» wisdom — but I don't think Riker intends that reading.

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

2017 marks an exciting year for Buderim Ginger, we celebrate how far we have come in the last 75 years from a small farming community and ginger growers cooperative to one of the world's largest suppliers of ginger.

Emma Jean is the president of Cervantes Enterprises, Inc. in La Mesa, New Mexico, a small farming community south of Las Cruces.

Many of those baptismal experiences come from his childhood in the small farming community of Wellington, Ohio.

I grew up in a small farming community in southern Ontario, so that's something I have within my bones being in that rural environment.

This yokel makes me ashamed to live in Iowa, but then coming from a smaller farm community, there's way too many people around here that don't think twice about killing stray animals.

Other things that bother the small farm community about the bill include a proposed registration process that would force anyone who produces food for retail to sign up with the government and agree to allow inspectors on their grounds.

Over time, as I've travelled around the world and visited small farming communities on every continent, I've come to appreciate that most young people don't want to be stuck in the village.

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They don't have the support system that people provide in small cities and farm communities.

But for the most part their influence is small in the organizations — political parties, labor unions, manufacturers» associations, farm groups — which are most effective in determining the direction of community affairs.

The new ethos preferred handicrafts and farming to business and industry and small face - to - face communities to impersonal bureaucracy and the isolated nuclear family.

Takes me back to my childhood in upstate NY, where our small community was surrounded by farms and apple orchards.

We carefully hand select our superfoods from family farms in traditional communities, where small - scale, sustainable practices yield products of superior quality.

That film, titled «The Greenhorns» grew into a small nonprofit organization that currently produces events, media and new media for and about the young farming community.

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Fairtrade Certified Pure Vanilla ensures small - scale farmers in developing countries receive a fair price and use sustainable farming practices, which in return, stabilizes vanilla producing communities and protects the environment.

Buying food from local farms, food entrepreneurs, and small businesses builds relationships and strengthens our community and economy.

Vegetable production intensification will see increased plant pest and disease pressure and significant on - farm losses for the majority of subsistence and small - holder cooperative farmers if the goal to meet WTO / SPS requirements for exports to the ASEAN economic community and international markets is to be met.

In the last decades most international efforts have focused on distributing food to vulnerable populations; with very little support dedicated to strengthening the ability of small holder farming to adequately feed their local communities.

Fairtrade Certified Vanilla ensures that small - scale farmers in developing countries receive a fair price and use sustainable farming practices, stabilizing vanilla - producing communities and protecting the environment.

GRAIN believes that the solution to reducing GHGs is an industry - wide transition from «factory farming and agribusiness» to small - scale producers and local food systems that provide moderate production level of meat and «do so in a way that regenerates soils, provides livelihoods to rural and urban communities and makes crops and animals resilient to the vagaries of an unpredictable climate.»

As proposed in point 3, the definition of «Intensive Animal Husbandry» must exclude small - scale, low stocking density, free - range farms, and any buffers should be developed in collaboration with the local community on a case - by - case basis.

Recommendation: that after the definition of «Intensive Animal Husbandry» is revised to no longer include small - scale, low stocking density, free - range farms, that buffer distances are determined in close collaboration with communities on a case - by - case basis where intensive agriculture is proposed.

And so as the Polyfaces, White Oaks, Gunthorps, Jonai, Buena Vistas, and Old Mill farms of the world toil to grow food deeply embedded in our local communities and imbued with their values of respect for people and animals and care for the land, we must support them / us, just as we must find ways to help others get onto the land to grow more food in small - scale agroecological systems.

Food processors and manufacturers: traditionally they are small and medium - sized companies that have been involved in processing and manufacturing organic products (pioneers) often located close to the relevant farming community.

A common scenario in the small, farming community where my family lives is for a mother to stay at home with her children when they are young and then get a job at the school when her youngest child enters kindergarten.

Sustainable - food advocates have called for schools to serve more local food, a tactic they say would not only improve flavor but also help support small farms and renew rural communities.

Fully implemented, this will produce $ 600 million in permanent, annual tax reductions that will benefit small business and farm owners, and help retain wealth in communities across New York state.

«From our farms and wineries to the small businesses on Main Street, our rural communities have the potential to reinvigorate local economies in every region of the state and help make New York a more affordable and prosperous state,» Helming said.

MEDFORD, Wis. (AP)-- Neighbors of a proposed mega farm in Taylor County are concerned the operation will contaminate and drain water resources in their small community.

«We live in a unique district of farms and small communities,» he said.

In a written statement, the bill's sponsor, Inez Dickens, said she hoped that the report would also «provide information to the City Council on the inclusion of the minority, small business farming community in the city's procurement process.»

Small scale agricultural farming was first initiated by indigenous communities living on Turkey's Anatolian plateau, and not introduced by migrant farmers as previously thought, according to new research by the University of Liverpool.

Although pig farming is a longtime practice in Malaysia, the industry had recently grown from many small family farms to include a few intensive operations that were large enough to satisfy the demand from non-Muslim communities in Malaysia, Singapore, and other parts of Southeast Asia.