Sentences with phrase «small farms last»

New government figures show that the state lost a thousand small farms last year, even as the number of larger operations increased.

Not exact matches

«The area of North Carolina where we are located has seen an increase in small scale farming in the last five to 10 years,» Ainspan explains.

Chestnut Hill Farms shipped a small amount of pineapple to China last year after Costa Rican pineapples gained market access.

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.

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.

«Processing the food isn't covered by [farm - to - school] grants, so it's the smaller districts — that have the time for processing — that are buying my food,» said St. Pierre, who sold about 400 pounds of turnips to Alaska schools last season.

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.

Please advice people to eat responsibly: small fish like Mackerels and Anchovies, Farmed fish (get informed about where and if they use anti-biotics, see the last scandal in Norway, the biggest provider of farm fish, they HAVE to use tons of antibiotics to get rid of all the diseases, google bloomberg, a big report there).

«I like to shop local because you're supporting smaller farms, and we need more of those to last, or else everything is going to be an industrial farm,» Ofrane said.

I have a small farm with four mini's that have kept me entertain for the last few years.

Georges and the eldest son, Constant (Nicolas Giraud), intermittently visit the farm on small periods of leave from battle over the years, intensifying the drama and suspense, as the audience doesn't know if it will be their last time visiting or not.

McMinnville, which used to be a small farming town, has tripled its population and transformed itself over the last generation.

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just has usual rust and insides not the greatest be a great work truck or farm truck has had new tires in the last year new battery new water pump thermostat and a new fuel pump dies have a remote start that works and I believe ac does work but he would charge it every year to do so as it had a small leak if have any que

Over the last decade, the USA has lost an average of 300 farms a week, these are mostly small farms.

Rhonda has worked in mixed animal practice, as an emergency technician for an equine & farm animal practice, as a surgical specialty technician, and for the last 8 years an emergency nurse in a small animal emergency & critical care facility.

After renting Town Farm in Mixbury, in 1938 she purchased Grange Farm and spent her last decades living reclusively in the small village of Chacombe, near Banbury.

Factory farming has been developed over the course of the last half - century to maximize production and profit by crowding the greatest number of animals together into the smallest possible space.

Thompsonville Veterinary Clinic supports a large rural large and small animal territory and their farm services have doubled over the last year, while our small animal appointments continue to build.

Of all the small shaggy terriers from Scotland, the Cairn Terrier was the last to be named but might be closest to the original terriers working in the Scottish Highlands to ferret pests like otters and rats from the piles of rocks, called cairns, on farms.

Last September 13, Minister of Energy Glenn Thibeault issued a press release announcing the Ontario Liberal government would reduce electricity bills for five million families, farms and small businesses.

Having run a small hill farm on the Cambrian mountains for the last 10 years (160acres in - by plus hill commons grazing rights for 700 head) I've been able to ask those born and bred as shepherds what fraction of the hill they see as no use for raising sheep.

Until now, these have been in small solar development in Israel (16 small PV facilities) and last year one was announced in Italy, and this marks the company's first foray into wind farm development.

... re my last comment — interesting point, the actual change in kinetic energy dissipation in the area of the wind farm was a small fraction of the energy output of the wind farm, because much of that energy would otherwise have been dissipated by land cover.

Last fall, Judy was at a meeting of farmers at their local grange, and heard a message of «we need more local customers to support our small - scale organic farms if we are going to stay in business».