Sentences with phrase «take on a working farm»

Start from nothing or take on a working farm.

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Paul Vaughan - France, owner of the farm, told The Times: «I will take the images as good feedback and will do everything I can to work on every aspect of my husbandry.

Coda's Heze employees have experience working on farms, not in factories, so it takes Coda extra time to train them.

My goal is to take care of him as long as I can so he can stay here on the farm he loves and worked for 50 yrs.

We've also been making peanut butter jelly sandwiches with the jam and preserves I got from Norm's Farm to take on picnics and to work.

This Earth Day I am partnering with the dairy community to tell you about how dairy farmers work hard to take great care of their cows while committing to sustainable practices on their farms.

ACCC Chairman, speaking at the Australian Farm Institute Conference in Melbourne today, has discussed the implications of competition policy for Australian agriculture, including commenting on the «national champions» argument (expressing the view that promotion of national champions «takes us in the opposite direction to reform that makes markets work better»), the misuse of market power provision and collective bargaining issues.

The company is taking single - origin chocolate to a whole new level, working on every aspect of the cacao from farm to bar.

Taking a cue from my favorite farm fashionista, we simply slap on a pair of farm boots and get to work.

Legal action has been taken by US campaigners on behalf of former child slaves who worked on farms supplying Nestlé and other companies.

Planting seeds through song, Miss Jamie take young kids and their families on a musical adventure to her «farm», where they learn values like hard work, exercise, and being kind to animals and each other.

For her part, my mother, who had grown up on a farm in Ireland, always reinforced the notion that it took hard work and dedication to realize your talent.

In the past the mentality was «you're living under my roof and eating my food so you will work on my farm and then take care of me when I'm old.»

By taking the kids on a field trip to a farm, getting them involved with making nutritious meals, and working with school and government officials, Jamie Oliver has been able to get the government to commit to spending 280 million pounds to improve school lunches around the country.

Richard K. Sullivan, Jr., Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, which oversees all state land conservation, said, «Since taking office, Governor (Deval) Patrick has made a historic $ 230 million investment in land conservation focused on three goals: investing in urban parks, preserving working farms and forests, and protecting large natural landscapes for habitat.

Alongside her teaching duties, over time Renata took on new responsibilities in visitor education, interpretation, and strategic planning, working to bring innovative exhibits and programs to Drumlin Farm's visitors.

«Shooting and farming go hand in glove and we rely on a fantastic working relationship with farmers to ensure that shooting can take place on land that may otherwise not be open to the public.

You can't take a group, any group of citizens and say well you don't have the rights guaranteed under the constitution because you work on a farm.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

Speaking on her experience in the hands of the alleged rapists, the septuagenarian, Akinseye explained that she was working on her farm on the fateful day when the two Fulani herdsmen attacked her and took turns to rape her.

Clusters of hunter - gatherers spent much of the late Stone Age working out the basics of farming on the fertile lands of what is now Turkey before taking this knowledge to Europe.

Hansen will probably work in a converted barn on his farm in Pennsylvania, but may possibly set up a small institute or take an academic appointment, according to the Times.

I have no problem with putting on some lip gloss and sexy pair of heels one night, and working on the farm the next... looking for a man that can take...

Verdict: Kelly Reichardt wasn't the only director to take a shift into genre territory: French - Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan «s fourth film, «Tom At The Farm,» based on the play by Michel Marc Bouchard, is a taut, fascinating thriller that borrows a little something from the work of Patricia Highsmith, but has its own thing going on too.

Without benefit of a lawyer or trial, the young vagrant is convicted by Judge Gatlin (Danny Vinson) who takes personal custody of the young man and puts him to work on his farm without pay, and indefinitely.

Take on all the challenges of farming life, including working with animals (cows, chicken and sheep), cultivating your land and harvesting crops.

Take on all the challenges of farming life, including working with animals (cows, chicken and...

Based on the first major work of Pulitzer Prize - winning author John Steinbeck, this rousing tale of farm laborers fighting for a few more dollars a day takes on modern relevance as workers across the U.S. continue the struggle for a living wage.

Paul and Cooper, interns from the agroecology certification program at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC), take groups for the farm - intensive work, while the Mission teachers each work with a group and then circulate to check up on them all.

Public school teachers often reach into their own pocketbooks to buy essentials like pencils and copy paper for overcrowded classrooms, nevermind having the financial support to take 95 sixth graders on a bus to a local farm for project work.

In one of the first books to tell the Orphan Train story from the viewpoint of a kid displaced by a newcomer, young Nate, injured in a farm accident, becomes resentful when his dad takes in an orphan to work on their small farm.

If you're inclined to take your book club international, follow in Barbara Kingsolver's footsteps and experience Italy's agriturismo, a guest accommodation on a working family farm.

Tommy took a job as the janitor in the Amgash school system; the steadiness of the job appealed to him, and he could never go to work on someone else's farm, he did not have the stomach for that.

It can be a hellish experience for a writer when no amount of work on a project pays off in terms of the story taking flight, and that was the case with my draft about a middle - aged woman living on a farm during the Civil War.

In actuality, they would probably farm this work out so they could keep their focus in an area of their expertise, so they'd be taking on the details of the subcontractors that the author is unwilling to do — probably delegating that coordination effort to a minion.

The staff and volunteers have taken on this work because of their passion to help wildlife, in addition to their regular roles helping domestic and farm animals at GHS.

Greenwell Farms offers tours of its working Kona coffee farm every day starting at 8:30 a.m. through 4:30 p.m. Friendly, knowledgeable guides take farm visitors on an interesting walking tour of coffee fields, highlighting farm history, pointing out various stages of coffee growth, production, and, depending on the season, visitors to the farm watch coffee cherry being processed.

During the day, explore the working wine farm on foot, or take a cycle on one of our routes (taking in the Agulhas Plain landscapes).

Along the way, on a road that varies from a poor rubble road to an excellent paved road at Gallon Jug, you'll pass a number of villages, some farms, the Mennonite settlement of Blue Creek (where you can also take spend time as a hard - working, paying volunteer at a major Maya archeological site) and plenty of jungle.

Taking part in all the farming activities on this working farm (weather permitting).

Country Experience takes you on a beach - side horseback ride and then a tour of a farm, so you can see how the agrarian system works down here.

While you don't have a farm to take care of, you can work on your house.

Taking work on other farms is essential and if you can earn the same rewards without doing all of the work then why wouldn't you?

Here she shares the fascinating story behind her take on Orwell's «Animal Farm» — a work in which a group of women with extremely long hair turn things around — and take fate into their own hands.

Titles such as Circuit Landscape give hints to a geographical genesis of the work, taking into consideration Binion's roots in Mississippi where his family lived and worked on a cotton farm to their migration to Detroit and his father's work within the automotive industry, autobiography was and is clearly a conscious influence on Binion's artistic practice.

Hexagro Urban Farming has been working on the Living Farming Tree for several years, and was picked as one of the finalists in the 2015 Biomimicry Global Design Challenge, but now the team is looking to take its system to the public with a crowdfunding campaign.

Straus worked with the Marin Carbon Project to develop a 20 - year carbon farming plan capable of sequestering some 2,000 metric tons of carbon each year, and in doing so, became the first dairy in the state to take that major step toward delivering a practical and effective climate solution on - site.

I am also just back from far northern Kenya where I was working with the grid planning and the infrastructure for both on - grid wind energy (Africa's largest wind farm is begin built to take advantage of remarkable wind site and the transmission access provided by a new Kenya - Ethiopia linking line).

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