Sentences with phrase «with local crops»

The farm was run on solar power and had a big garden filled with local crops.

Faced with longer and hotter summers, many farmers in the Sundarbans have embraced organic farming with local crop varieties that are better adapted to a changing climate

Not exact matches

Local tech entrepreneurs have pitched their ideas to representatives from the Big Pitch competition in Leederville today, with the pick of the crop to go into the national finals with a chance to win $ 5 million to fund their idea.

In addition to Eatsa, Friedberg is pushing quinoa through a company he acquired called Northern Quinoa Production Corp., which contracts with local farmers in Canada to grow the crop with its proprietary seed.

I picked up some new crop California Asparagus at the local grocer to grill with a drizzle of olive oil, cracked pepper, and a small amount of coarse salt.

Our supplier follows the Bio Trade principles, working with the local grower to ensure sustainability, fair trade and helping to develop and maintain a high standard crop.

I haven't made my Vegan Peanut Butter and Fresh Apple Pancakes with Peanut Butter Maple Syrup in a while, but he reminded me how good they are; and, with local apples cropping up this autumn in farmers markets everywhere, I thought I should post a link.

In contrast, many of Hawaii's farms play a big role in sharing their crop with local cafes, retail outlets and restaurants.

In interviews with The Age, the supermarkets said they came to rely more heavily on imports when local crops, such as tomatoes and pineapples, failed during the drought and floods.

Working with local fruit farmers and using her own crops of Seyval Blanc and a French hybrid red grape called Marechol Foch, LaBelle has created an enticing line of eighteen wines that are distinctly New England, featuring ingredients like blueberries, red raspberries, apricots, heirloom apples, and cranberries.

Weevils have attacked the plants in the past, damaging the local crop, but the biggest threats to supply are the lack of large - scale producers (most locals just grow a few plants for their own use) and hurricanes, which dump heavy rains and pack a punch with fierce winds that destroy the fragile plants.

Traditional crop improvement seeks broadly adapted genotypes to give best average performance under a standard management regime across the entire production region, with some subsequent manipulation of management regionally in response to average local environmental conditions.

He is a lean and well - washed boy, with all that is open and innocent about the plains of Kansas showing in his face, in his summer - sky eyes and even in the comb - furrowed bangs that are bleached the color of corn from many blazing August days of helping in the hellish, itchy harvest of the celebrated local hay crop.

As the KOT grew, however, the need to help produce and develop a local crop of refs came with the territory.

And by governance on a daily basis, mean from the how from kings, aristocrats, down through every layer of bureaucracy till you get to your local tax collector, what / why / how these people ran the government administration on a day to day basis, from dealing with a rival city who recently stole one of your citizens crops, to pirates interfering with trade on the Mediterranean, to drought, city administration, what to do with tax money, neighborly disputes, superstition, weather, crime, theft, laws and battles of ideology, to political rivalries and infighting, to a foreigner spreading strange religious ideas in the city (or dealing with somebody accused of a crime they claim they did not commit), I mean everything and everything these officials may have dealt with, daily, and how they changed over time.

Beyond honing communications skills, participants said while the discussions often started off with broad trends in climate science, invariably the exchanges shifted to specific local issues such as wildfires, ozone levels, crop rotations, sea level rise, droughts and air quality.

Production systems such as monocultures that cultivate crops (for example, palm oil and sugar cane) for global distribution may benefit local communities with employment and funding opportunities, but are often reliant on over-exploited water resources.

Now, as part of that effort, we invest with lots of research partners, always local, in developing new seeds and new crop varieties that can protect families from the consequences of drought or that have more vitamin A, and some of those projects are testing the use of different transgenic technologies.

Applied in combination with crop simulation models, it is also possible to evaluate local adaptation strategies as successfully shown in an earlier study for barley in Finland.

Mexico is in the middle - ground due to the continued popularity in local diets of crops like maize and beans, two plants native to the region, alongside sugarcane (with origins in Southeast and South Asia) and wheat.

Furthermore, other factors will come into play, such as the local availability of water, competition with other crops such as wheat or corn, and the sheer cost of planting and maintaining new vineyards and production facilities.

The chimps are basically imposing a «natural tax» on farmers growing crops near the nutrient - rich soils of the forest,» said Shane McGuinness, lead author on the research and PhD student in Geography at Trinity, who conducted the interview - based study with the help of the Great Apes Trust and local conservation workers.

«We want to know which genes are activated by which particular environmental conditions in order to ensure that the bacteria will be ideally matched with crops under the local conditions,» states Zachow.

Chile verde is the crop's best - known dish, but Hatch chiles also make cameos in frittatas, on sandwiches, in salads, and even in desserts; as locals would say, a recipe that starts with them can't go wrong.

Usually, local growers of crops and herbs have all the ancient knowledge and traditional wisdom at hand, but in this rare instance, it seems that the corporations are more efficient, with machinery that breaches the plant's branches with the optimal frequency.

People began purchasing so much acai product that Brazilians were becoming deprived of their local beloved fruit and crops couldn't keep up with the quick turn - around rates.

In 2010 their first crop was harvested and they have been supplying neighborhood markets, their own mobile market trucks, and home deliveries with fresh, local, seasonal fruits and vegetables ever since.

Keeping your eyes peeled in your local Forever 21, New Look, Primark or even the clothing section of the supermarket for crop tops, pencil skirts, cropped pants, high waisted trousers, fitted or fluffy jumpers, cardigans, pencil dresses or flared dresses can make a huge difference to finding budget, basic pieces you can style up with a vintage twist.

Visit your local store to find a few similar examples to team up with gorgeous tops, shirts and even crop tops or trendy coats.

Cropped flares are probably my favorite type of bottoms this spring and I was crazy happy to find these frayed edge ones from Lost Ink on a local website with a 75 % discount.

In M. Night Shyamalan's spiritual science fiction hit Signs (2002), Jones quietly shined with her gentle yet no - nonsense performance as the local cop who gets involved in teasing out the meaning of the crop circles in anguished father Mel Gibson's corn field.

As we shift into February, moviegoers will be confronted with an even promising crop of releases at their local theater, ranging from Oscar - nominated foreign films to the first of three entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe arriving this year.

In this type of program — promoted nationwide by the Farm to School organization, connecting schools with local farmers — kids get their hands dirty by gardening organic crops while learning about seasonal cooking, food production, ecology, and nutrition.

I felt like flipping the device over on its face the other day due to a local pilates ad — complete with awkward pilates stock photo — that cropped up while I was at a coffee shop.

The grooming industry is buzzing with a strong crop of profitable salons, but some continue to feel the pinch of local struggling economies.

Within walking distance of Ubud center are a number of scenic rice field paths that snake through farmlands where local farmers attend to their crops and warungs perch on the edge with terrace views to die for.

We will pass a few small communities such as Siwas, Qenqo and Pumamarka where you can see locals farming their lands with potatoes and bean crops as their ancestors did.

Before the tourism boom, cattle ranching was the heart of the local economy, practically the only way that locals could earn a living here with the land, since no one had found a way to grow crops at competitive rates.

With some space cleared and a few seeds donated by a kind local comes the most basic and reliable of your skills; planting and maintaining crops.

So, it was with some trepidation that I approached Farming Simulator For Nintendo Switch, sure that within a few hours of starting up my game the crops would be dying from blight and the cows would be rampaging from their fields and into the local township, spreading chaos and death in their wake.

Eric «ConcernedApe» Barone, the man behind the hit indie farming simulator Stardew Valley, has officially nailed down the exact day on which Mac and Linux users will be able to start planting their own crops and making nice with the local townsfolk.

Technically innovative, the images were taken with a digital camera attached to a low - flying aircraft, piloted by a local crop - duster, covering often hundreds of miles per day.

And if the current crop of electric scooter launches is any indication, there's a significant demand for these types of transport, which isn't fully «last mile» transport, necessarily, as most of them are too heavy or too bulky to realistically put into a trunk or bring on transit with you, but rather «local mile» transport for shorter trips from home or work.

Crops don't grow in the frozen ground, so people have a largely carnivorous diet — reindeer meat, raw flesh shaved from frozen fish, and ice cubes of horse blood with macaroni are a few local delicacies.»

With organic cotton being almost inexistent as a crop in Argentina and bamboo barely present, wool felt is one of the few local and sustainable materials that designers have in this country for fashion and accessories.

The Bean and Grain Project has since worked with local farmers to transition help them transition from grass seed cultivation to a more diverse variety of staple crops after prices collapsed.

Farmers are often willing to experiment with new crops, but would benefit from information about local market prices and seasonal climate forecasts, as well as help with inputs — which could be provided by research organisations and development groups working in the field, Thornton told AlertNet from Nairobi.

Another category is biomass grown in excess of what would have grown absent the demand for bioenergy, such as growing winter cover crops for energy and replacing traditional — yet inefficient — fuel wood harvests in some poor countries with wood grown in agroforestry systems and local plantations.

Crops are also less efficient in retaining moisture than forests, with immediate effects on local weather.

Food security and food production systems: On a sentence on impacts of projected climate change without adaptation on the major crops, in response to queries from Tanzania and the UK, a CLA explained that: confidence goes down when restricting projections to certain crops and regions; and the use of local temperatures was consistent with the literature.