Sentences with phrase «small rural farms»

I am forwarding the whole series of posts on this matter so far to a friend who is a farmer and pastor of a small congregation in a small rural farming town of South Africa.

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

Lorna from Uganda shows how they re-use plastic drinks bottles on their small rural farm in Kumi.

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Family farms, restaurants, other food businesses and the rural economy will suffer under federal tax proposals for small businesses,

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.

The setting, to be sure, is first century rural Galilee with its small towns and open farm and grazing land rather than contemporary urban America.

Rather, new factories were built, usually on the outskirts of small towns in heretofore rural America, where the mechanization of farms made available a pool of cheap, plentiful labor.

He told me that these are not farmed on a large scale in Trinidad, but that many people in the rural interior grow them in their yards and small farms.

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Our organic heirloom potatoes come from small - scale family farms in rural southwestern Wisconsin.

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

Organic agriculture — identified as a package of intelligent and innovative farming techniques, sustainable and fair food chains based on principles that strengthen small - scale farmers and empower rural economies - are being adopted globally by governments and local authorities, carried out by millions of farmers and supported by a rapidly increasing number of consumers.

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.»

You have this image of a small farm somewhere in rural Wisconsin, maybe one of those cool little towns in the Kickapoo Valley.

Coconuts are used fresh (within 24 - 48 hours of harvest) from small family farms on Mt. Banahaw and other rural places in Quezon Province, the coconut capital of the Philippines.

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

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.

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.

Fort Bragg Unified School District — Pilar Gray Innovation: Noyo Food Forest: Growing Fresh Produce Consumption in a Remote Rural District In collaboration with a local nonprofit, the Noyo Food Forest, Nutrition Services helped create a small working farm on the district's high school campus.

Hopkinton, a small town in rural St. Lawrence County, just staked out a tough position when it comes to wind farms.

«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.

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.

So, I ordered some from my very favorite source, Tropical Traditions, because I know they only have the highest quality organic produce that comes from small family farms in rural southwestern Wisconsin.

Coconuts are used fresh (within 24 hours of harvest) from small family farms on Mt. Banahaw and other rural places in Quezon Province, the coconut capital of the Philippines.

In my small town / rural farming community when Im out and about (mail, walking dogs) I dress what people would see as «normal».

It's worth noting that only a small portion of the rural population is employed in farming, so a much wider variety of models is necessary to provide relevant career preparation.

The Ireland stories are at the heart of the collection, set on rural Irish farms and in small villages in the first half of the twentieth century.

For me, the thought «I want to be a veterinarian» first entered my mind about 55 years ago, when I was a 7 - year - old boy living on a small farm in rural Southern Idaho.

The smallest and rarest of Greek Molossers, the Ellinikos Poimenikos Booeidon used to be a fairly common farm dog and companion found in rural areas, as well as some islands.

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.

He has always enjoyed working with animals since he grew up on a small farm in rural Pennsylvania so he chose to work at a small animal veterinary hospital in Williamsport after graduation.

While living in her native Michigan in the rural town of Buchanan (population: 4,455), she purchased a small farm with a host of cows, pigs, goats and sheep along with a pony for the kids.

Growing up in a rural area of southern West Virginia, my grandfather owned and operated a small gentlemen's farm in which he raised cattle and housed my childhood pony.

We raise our pups on a small farm in rural Oklahoma.

The family environment that is characteristic of this offering allows you to enjoy personalized attention and helps you learn about rural culture, farming traditions and small artisanal industries.

In the sections that follow, depictions of coastal New England, small - town Pennsylvania, Midwestern farms and other rural regions will illustrate the dispersal of standard modernist styles, such as Cubism and Fauvism, and demonstrate the spread and gradual acceptance of these artistic movements in the American provinces.

Portraits of domesticated animals and their humans from the series «On the Sixth Day» document the ordinary labor of a small working farm — raising, caring, naming, killing — while excerpts from «The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams» capture ten years of play, improvisation, boredom, and friendship between two cousins, with the farm and rural landscape as stage.

Bourgeois was born in 1951 and raised on a small farm in the rural southern Louisiana community of St. Amant in Ascension Parish.

Mandelman's rural scenes of farms, barns and small villages illustrate a longing for simpler values.

Womersley, along maintaining with blogs on sustainable living and his small farm, sends his students out into rural Maine communities to conduct energy audits and help cut energy bills for struggling families and retirees.

So if you ever end living the rural green life on that small local certified organic workers» farm collective, you know you've got a place to stay.

GRID Alternatives» International Program addresses a critical energy access gap in rural communities in Nicaragua and Nepal by bringing solar power to schools, health clinics, homes, farms and small businesses.

Best known as a gateway to the Oregon Caves National Monument, it is described by its chamber of commerce as «the commercial, service, and cultural center for a rural community of small farms, woodlots, crafts people, and families just living apart from the crowds.

He and Anniek also own a small farm in rural Pennsylvania, to which he commutes by car about once a week — less in winter.

Widespread rural electrification has been held back to date by the financial obstacles to profitable distribution of power in the farming areas... Chief among the financial obstacles are the farmer's small cash income, coupled with the large unit investment required in distribution systems to serve only a few farms per mile of line.

Hosted by the Mass Farm Energy Program (MFEP), the sessions provide in - depth coverage of state and federal programs that can help your farm (or, for some incentives, rural small business) reduce energy coFarm Energy Program (MFEP), the sessions provide in - depth coverage of state and federal programs that can help your farm (or, for some incentives, rural small business) reduce energy cofarm (or, for some incentives, rural small business) reduce energy costs.

Yansa and the World Wind Energy Association want to set up, together with local organizations, a small wind farm to fund community - led reconstruction in rural indigenous communities devastated by the earthquakes of 7 and 19 September.

Tuesday, April 24, noon - 1 pm, Tucker Foundation Living Room Supporting Local Farms: A conversation with Andrea Stander, Director of Rural Vermont, who will discuss their work advocating on behalf of Vermont farmers and consumers to promote vibrant rural economies and communities by supporting small, sustainable fFarms: A conversation with Andrea Stander, Director of Rural Vermont, who will discuss their work advocating on behalf of Vermont farmers and consumers to promote vibrant rural economies and communities by supporting small, sustainable fRural Vermont, who will discuss their work advocating on behalf of Vermont farmers and consumers to promote vibrant rural economies and communities by supporting small, sustainable frural economies and communities by supporting small, sustainable farmsfarms.

In order to create an economic alternative in rural New York to the prison industry, the Milk Not Jails co-operative is working with small, family - owned dairy farms to sell Milk Not Jails branded dairy products to New York City residents through CSAs, buying clubs, cafes, daycares, and other social services.

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