Sentences with phrase «where small farmers»

Support small farmers — With large industrial farms monopolizing most of the produce you find in stores, farmer's markets are one place where small farmers can continue to make a living.

The combination of high prices of natural gas, which is used to make nitrogen fertilizer, and of phosphate, as reserves are depleted, suggests a much greater future emphasis on nutrient recycling — an area where small farmers producing for local markets have a distinct advantage over massive feeding operations.

Visitors will eventually tour the facilities where small farmers test, dry, cure, trim, process, and package marijuana for distribution; learn about the plant in seminars and pairing dinners; and stay at an on - site, pot - friendly bed and breakfast.

Not exact matches

The grandson of farmers, and son of an agricultural extension agent, Harrison grew up in small Michigan towns — Grayling, Reed City, Haslett — where he developed a love of books and a primal bond with the outdoors, «bone - and marrow - deep.»

Small and mid-sized businesses, family farmers, and others in the real economy are far better served by a simple, robustly regulated market where prices are transparent and competition is meaningful.»

It's a different and much smaller industry in the northern states such as Western Australia and Queensland, where very few farmers supply to Murray Goulburn and Fonterra, and most of the fresh milk produced is sold to the domestic market as drinking milk or butter and cheese.

An incubator farm is where beginner farmers can rent small to large portions... Continued

And while Kraft deserves some credit, as none of the other Big Coffee companies is making this type of effort, real environmental preservation and fair prices for farmers is far, far better served by purchasing sustainable coffees from small companies and roasters with relationships with their suppliers, especially those that provide information on the specific farms where their beans are sourced.

The oat seedlings are identity preserved Non GMO and planted by small, carefully chosen family farmers in fields where no wheat is subject to cross contamination.

To cut costs and increase production, many modern farmers put their cows on feed - lots — a small, industrialized space where they are given grain - based food that is specifically designed to influence the health of the animal.

If you want a smaller, more low - key setting, there's a Wednesday market just called the Main St. Farmers» Market; it's where I get my produce and soap.

Navitas Naturals cacao is sustainably harvested in the lush forests of Peru, where our partners carefully select the best cacao beans from local small - scale organic cacao farmers.

Constructed by farmer and potter Hervey Brooks, the Pottery Shop still bears Brooks's initials on a small beam, upside down, near where Old Sturbridge Village's potters work today.

I am so thankful that I have relocated to a small farm in the midwest, where next year I will be raising my own meat chickens and won't have to worry about where my chicken meat is processed... it will be «processed» by the Amish farmers a few miles down the road.

At a small hotel in Dolores, Colorado, where LeBlanc is preparing for a lecture at a nearby museum, he talks about that early work at El Morro: «What were these people doing at 7,200 feet in such a crummy place, trying to be corn farmers?

Areas of «natural dung accumulation,» where animals hung out, would have provided «patches of superfertile ground that early crops would have colonized,» she points out, adding that «subsistence farmers are extremely observant of small differences in growth and productivity among their plots.»

Cities also contain the lion's share of demand for high - value products such as fruits, vegetables, and dairy, where small - scale farmers can have an advantage because the products are labor intensive.

For the months of June and July, by contrast, those glorious little strawberry - blackberry - dewberry - loganberry hybrids (developed by a small farmer in California, where they're no longer grown in large quantities) are ripe and fresh at farmers» markets and stands.

It's important for our children and the future of our country to know where our food comes from and to empower small farmers — especially female ones.»

How and where can we support these small farmers growing these ancient varietals?

It is a sad commentary on our modern way of life that purchasing raw milk is illegal in many states, and even where it is legal small dairy farmers are being harassed.

Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, eccentric town, where disaster awaits them at every turn.

Police inspectors soon realize that the epicenter of these mysterious disappearances must be Slack Bay, where the Slack River and the sea join at high tide and a small community of fishermen and oyster farmers live — among them, the Bréfort ferrymen, led by a patriarch nicknamed «The Eternal.»

The origins of both go back to 17th century Britain, where they were used by farmers to help control vermin and roust small game animals, including foxes, from their dens.

In 1847, a farmer by the name of Sutton Green commissioned the construction — for his small but growing family — of the fine stone house where Hudson Valley Rose Bed and Breakfast now stands.

The small towns of Bellavista and Santa Rosa were established in the humid highlands, where farmers raised cattle and planted crops such as avocados, coffee, sugarcane, bananas, oranges, and lemons.

A small wooden main door leads to a large quadrangular courtyard from which the places once destined to the farmer's various activities develop: the rooms where he slept with his family, the stalls, the sheepfolds, the tool - sheds and a kitchen with a large fireplace for the production of cheese.

To get an idea of how the group's projects work, explore the details of the effort in Sofala, Mozambique, where farmers get a small payment for the carbon - absorbing value of adding a tree crop, cashews, to their plantings.

Sufficient numbers to maintain specialization (that is, a technological culture where everyone isn't a small farmer)...»

Cultivation of the arabica coffee plant, staple of daily caffeine fixes and economic lifeline for millions of small farmers, is under threat from climate change as rising temperatures and new rainfall patterns limit the areas where it can be grown, researchers have warned.

you've made two points in particular that i think are spot - on: the fact that small, organic farmers are more likely to use bio-diesel and / or alternative fuels in bringing their produce to market, especially in the bay area where the Salon piece focused, and also that the storage time post-harvest for the wholesalers is not insignificant from a carbon footprint angle by any means.

An incubator farm is where beginner farmers can rent small to large portions... Continued

Bananas are sourced from Ecuador, where 300 small farmers grow them for a cooperative in El Oro province.

Will these entities even give up a quarter of a million for agricultural adaptation in developing countries where small scale farmers are growing food for them and for all of us?