Sentence examples for a patchwork of farms from inspiring English sources

Brooklyn, or "Brookland," is a patchwork of farms of different shades, bisected by Flatbush Road.

But the oasis is flecked with houses and a patchwork of farms and pear orchards.

Summer sees hundreds of hang-gliders flinging themselves over the edge of the forested escarpments near Argentat, to fly over a patchwork of farms and pastures on the valley floor.

Ms. Tawse's property, nestled among a patchwork of family farms about 10 miles north of Boulder, was spared.

To the left, a patchwork of villages, farms and fields covered the fertile plains between the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers.

The fringe of Shanghai, like those of other big cities, is a patchwork of small farms and factories, a short drive from staggering wealth.

But the rural heartland of the Eastern Cape is much as Mandela left it, a patchwork of subsistence farming communities scattered over a land of tumultuous beauty.

Each day, he struggled to support his young family with a patchwork of subsistence farming and grand schemes, always at the pitiless whims of weather and tides.

Environmental activists and the Olana Partnership, the nonprofit group that supports the historic site, say the new tower, which was recently approved by Livingston's planning board, would mar an otherwise sublime canvas — a pleasing patchwork of farms and woods, river valleys and highlands.

He can begin by bringing in the top engineers from among our good friends in the Netherlands, who, over time, have tamed the Rhine and converted their delta from a frequently ravaged wasteland into a flourishing patchwork of farms and small lakes that stretches for miles along their once imperiled seacoast.

Selinsgrove is the nerve center of Snyder County, a pretty patchwork of farms and small towns that comes to a stop at the western banks of the Susquehanna River.