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Life for my family was a real struggle, as it was for most in those farming communities in Alabama.
The best farming systems are ones where animals and plants are put into a synergistic relationship.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.
Urban farming is not only possible, it is crucial. But it can't be like the farming techniques of yore.
I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.
A farm is like a very large and extended baby. It takes a great deal of time and very little mentality.
Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.
Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.
So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.
If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.
The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.
Since I was a boy - born into a farming family in Bonaire, GA - I've had agriculture running through my veins.
If we pursue organic farming as our healthy food style, we can bring down cost of treatment to a great extent.
In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it.
I want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land.
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
It's important to concede that modern pesticides have helped to make farming more productive and to increase yields.
Natural farming is just farming, nothing more. You don't have to be a spiritually oriented person to practice my methods.
There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule].
You need bad things to make good things. It’s like with farming— if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.
As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.
Farming is the riskiest profession in the world since the fate of the crop is closely linked to the behaviour of the monsoon.
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.
Even if you live in New York City, you can have a little basil plant in your window, and that could be considered urban farming.
Contract farming can be promoted if it is structured on the basis of a win-win situation both for the producer and the purchaser.
There was a revolution going on at home. Why didn't I earn some money? Why didn't I do something practical, like chicken farming?
I want to pursue farming, and what better place to do it than at a hill station, which has a cool climate almost through the year.
I try so hard to be tolerant of everyone and their choices, but people who harm pets or support factory farming have an enemy in me.
My father was a farmer, and we have had some farming land in Haryana. Maybe I would have followed his footsteps and become a farmer.
Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here - I love it.
The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.
Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?
The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.
Even though I hated doing farming and wanted to just get out of the village, I would work from 5 in the morning till 5 in the evening.
Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.
I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.
I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.
My family has spent 400 years farming on the banks of the Rio Grande. We know the value of hard work, love of the community, love for water and land.
I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration.
From my standpoint, coca should be neither destroyed nor completely legalized. Farming should be controlled by the state and by the coca farmers' unions.
President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.
Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.
We can bring together rich natural resources, innovative research and development, smart investors, and risk-taking farming and manufacturing entrepreneurs.
I really like the whole urban farming idea, because I grow my own produce in L.A., and I think it's great to teach people here in Manhattan so they can do the same.
What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with less care at lower cost.
The thing about organic farming is that the produce will not look the same. Your tomato will not resemble the rich red one from the textbook, and that's the beauty of it.
After 12,000 years of feeding humankind, all farming except fruit and veg production is likely to be replaced by ferming: brewing microbes through precision fermentation.