Sentences with phrase «tobacco farming»

Earlier, I had the chance to visit their 10 - acre property former tobacco farm to see firsthand how hard they are working to grow a variety of produce for the local customers.

Both grew up on tobacco farms in southwestern Ontario and the pair spent most of their summers throughout high school and university working on the farm.

Wheeling served as a commercial and industrial center for the state with an emphasis on tobacco farming and steel production.

«We conceived Montecristo Cigar Bar as a modern and luxurious loft space with outdoor elements influenced by tobacco farms.»

More recently, investigators at the University of Tennessee reported that no - till tobacco farming reduced soil erosion by more than 90 percent over conventional tobacco cultivation.

A Belgian University study from the 1990s cited deforestation (to make way for tobacco farming) and wood burning (to cure the tobacco) as negative factors in the ecology of developing countries.

This title begins with Banneker's childhood on a Maryland tobacco farm, where he began his inquiries into the natural world.

The crease started on the Price tobacco farm, where Dean's father received a disadvantaged piece of land that had no road frontage.

Once an Amish tobacco farm, The Inn at Leola Village offers restored Amish cottages, rustic barns, and acres of stunning gardens, many maintained by Amish neighbors.

After a lunch of roast chicken, fresh cabbage, and plantain chips at a local tobacco farm, I take a solitary stroll down a slight hill to the colonial town of Viñales.

The Vinales region is an approximately 2 hr 30 mins drive from Havana and a flourishing expanse dotted with tobacco farms.

This charming city is full of rolling farmland and old tobacco farms scattered across undisturbed scenic views.

As a Southerner, you may be surprised to learn there were many, many tobacco farms here in southern Ontario, Canada.

DeGroote, who was born in Belgium, spent his early years working on his family's tobacco farm in Tillsonburg, Ont., which is where he learned to drive.

The catch: anyone who takes the money can't return to tobacco farming.

Across North Carolina, textile factories and tobacco farms have disappeared, giving way to fields of solar panels.

As an example: When Virginia sued the tobacco companies and was awarded the huge settlements they set up a commission to reinvest that money in the tobacco farming areas in order to help the economy there (since it was dependent on tobacco farming).

What would be truly wonderful and is my dream would be to turn the tobacco farms into hemp farms.

Considering many communities in the region have roots in tobacco farming and production, continued policy change may be particularly challenging, she said.

In part an homage to tobacco farming, in part a story about standing up to «the man», and in part a love story, or perhaps better put, a story of young ladies falling all over themselves for Troy Donahue's character, a young man who has moved in to a rural farming area with his mother, played by Claudette Colbert.

J.B. Fuqua, who was raised on a tobacco farm near Farmville, Va., where the Prince Edward Academy is located, announced last month that «a significant amount» of his donation to the school was earmarked for minority scholarships.

Dean's grandmother Ollie Neal lived in an apartment they had built in back, and behind the house was the tobacco farm that his grandfather, Birch Neal, had won in a card game in 1932, when Route 220 was a dirt road.

Born to free black parents in 1731, Benjamin Banneker grew up on their tobacco farm.

The first stories I wrote were about my mom, Lucy, and her life on a tobacco farm in the 1930s.

The differences in the way the two families dealt with money was obvious to anyone who was familiar with how each family ran their tobacco farm.

Dr. Weakley said it was growing up on a cattle and tobacco farm that drew him to veterinary medicine.

For example, I grew up on a tobacco farm in Appalachia and have ended up as a research fellow at Harvard Law School.

In 2002, a Jamaican migrant farm worker, Ned Peart, died in after he was crushed by a 1,000 - pound steel bin on the tobacco farm where he worked in Brant County.