Sentences with phrase «urban farmers with»

For example, the Cape Town policy on urban agriculture (South Africa) calls upon the services of the research, training and support organisations in and around the city to provide the urban farmers with training on business administration, technical skills, marketing, etc..

The new Erie County Agricultural and Farmland Protection Plan creates innovative strategies to guide the County to identify and protect agricultural land with development pressure, support new farms and attract new farmers to Erie County, identify strategies to increase the financial viability of agriculture in the County, connect rural and urban farmers with consumers and new markets, and increase accessibility of healthy, local food for consumers.

Food lovers need not miss out as sheltered balcony gardens can make perfect salad and vegetables growing spots, so why not become an urban farmer with your very own balcony vegetable garden?

Not exact matches

One way these urban farmers are expanding their reach is by connecting with other food entrepreneurs.

You could say it combines the best of urban and suburban, with yearly bike races, easy access to public transportation, diverse people (and food), weekly farmers markets, art studios, and good schools.

Nevertheless, if the issue is as depicted, ethicists will be inclined to support the proposals along with finding ways to ease the adjustment of the family farmers into urban life.

Mary flees from the crucifixion before it's over; she wields a kitchen knife against the disciples when they try to force her to agree to their version of Christ's death and resurrection; she has no faith whatsoever in Christianity or Judaism but finds consolation in worshiping the many - breasted Greek goddess Artemis; her vision of the afterlife is more accurately a vision of a twenty - first - century urban farmers» market: «a city... filled with plenty, a marketplace laden with fish and fowl and the fruits of the earth.»

She is a graduate of the Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City, and apprenticed under the worker - ownership of Three Stone Hearth in Berkeley, California, the first community supported kitchen (CSK) of its kind and has experience managing farmer's markets, working with a variety of artisan food producers, in restaurants, business management and organizations promoting urban food sustainability, local food economies and seasonality.

I was delighted to spend time with farmers such as the irascible Joel Salatin of Polyface, the fiery and generous Mike Callicrate of Ranch Foods Direct, the irreverent and determined Greg Gunthorp of Gunthorp Farms, the earnest and warm Guido Frosini of True Grass Farms, the focused and incisive Marina of Circle B Ranch, and the fierce and friendly Julia Smith of Urban Digs Farm.

Fieldworkers work closely with Drumlin's farmers to raise crops on thirty acres and market our produce through a farmstand, a weekly urban farmers» market, restaurant accounts, and a spring, summer and fall CSA program.

This will include working to revitalize the Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market in the Bronx, which supplies a large portion of the produce for New York City's and the region's food consumption, and creating a «Share NY Food» Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program that develops partnerships with farmers and residents to expand access and resources and make fresh food available to consumers in urban areas.

For farmers and ranchers in Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula during a six - year drought, the farther away they lived from urban areas, the more likely they were to have to make changes to cope with the dwindling supply of water, according to a Portland State University study.

Strano has already begun working with a large agricultural producer to develop these sensors for use on crops, and he believes that the technology could also be useful to gardeners and urban farmers.

I've talked to vertical farmers in urban centers who want to grow indoors with LED lighting.

From the outside, San Francisco might seem like a wellness oasis, with hilly urban hikes, bountiful farmers markets, and green parks aplenty.

You're an urban farmer though, what's the deal with dirt and kids especially compare and contrast cities and country kids like mine?

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Her husband came up with Urban Farmers in The Hague.

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The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance and Discovery Education have partnered on an exciting new initiative to engage urban youth with a first - hand glimpse into modern agriculture.

In continuous operation since 1927, this Santa Monica hotel exudes history with its Mediterranean architecture, yet is steps from the best of urban Santa Monica, such as the Third Street Promenade and Santa Monica Farmers Market.

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It's a place to learn about initiatives like the Vermont Sail Freight Project, in which a home - built sailing barge, the Ceres, is beginning to connect farmers in Vermont with urban food buyers in Brooklyn, expanding the regional «foodshed,» as some describe farm - to - table networks, by using neglected canal and river trade routes.

Firstly, the RUAF Foundation cooperates with urban producers, local NGOs, public administrations and other relevant stakeholder groups in setting up of concrete short chain marketing initiatives, for example within the framework of the Market - oriented urban agriculture project in Gaza (implemented in cooperation with Oxfam) agricultural value chains in various specific product groups are supported in a market - for the poor - perspective; The From Seed to Table programme supported 30 urban farmer groups in 17 cities to innovate their local production systems, engage in value - adding activities and establish innovative short marketing channels; The projects in Freetown and Makeni in Sierra Leone implemented in cooperation with COOPI helped to establish various youth - led agro-enterprises (in pig raising and slaughtering; milk and fruit processing and waste management).

COOPI (Italy, project coordination) and RUAF Foundation (the Netherlands), in cooperation with institutions and organisations involved in the Freetown Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (including the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security; Freetown City Council; Ministry of Land, Housing and Environment; Ministry of Health and Sanitation; National Association of Farmers in Sierra Leone (NAFSL); Sierra Leone Youth Empowerment Organisation (SLYEO); Njala University; and other stakeholders).

Municipal authorities increasingly understand the role (intra - and peri --RRB- urban farmers can play in environmental management (like the recycling of urban wastes, urban stormwater management, lowering urban temperatures and dust, maintaining urban biodiversity) while innovative farmers in and around cities are offering nowadays a variety of recreational services (staying on farm, horse riding, etcetera), playing a role in maintaining the cultural landscape and other services (e.g., on farm care for elderly people or with people with a psychological, eco-education,...) in response to the demands of citizens and city region managers.

Today, that little book is out in print and called The Prince's Speech: On the Future of Food, with a foreword by poet and farmer Wendell Berry, and an afterword co-written by urban farmer / MacArthur genius Will Allen and longtime food journalist Eric Schlosser.

Health risks associated with urban farming can be reduced substantially if farmers are made well aware of these risks and know how to prevent them.

Terry's recommendations were: better, joined - up policy; better training for urban planners, to take rural issues into account; solutions for mixed land use; crime reduction targets for rural crime; markets farmer involvement with the London Food Strategy, link up London Emissions Zone with food policy.

On this week's eco@africa, we meet Nigerians striving for sustainability, German farmers using ancient techniques, and Ugandan school children getting green - fingered with urban farming projects at school.

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If you live in a super city / urban area... just find a local farmer for your eggs, or go in on a chicken share with other people at a place more suitable for farming?

Milk Not Jails is a recently launched marketing and distribution co-operative trying to create a fresh urban - rural relationship with New York's dairy farmers through milk, cheese, yogurt, and ice cream.

Having already visited the awesome urban farmers of New Orleans, Daniel Klein and Mirra Fine of the Perennial Plate continued the Louisiana leg of their road trip with a boat ride courtesy of Sinh Pham — a Vietnamese shrimp fisherman struggling to get by with low dock prices, high fuel costs, and a dramatic decrease in catch.

I am a housewife (slovenly with occasional bolts of creativity), urban farmer (optimistically), bibliophile and (enthusiastic) reviewer of books, writer (wishfully), and mother (with all of my heart).

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