Sentence examples for farming backgrounds from inspiring English sources

"There are two sorts of islanders – those from fishing backgrounds and those from farming backgrounds.

None of them came from farming backgrounds and most had heard about the job through word of mouth.

Her parents were from humble farming backgrounds, but her much-loved father, a mason who was known as JB and lived to be 107, became a rich landowner with import-export business interests.

Despite being from underprivileged, subsistence farming backgrounds, not one of the 168 trust students who sat their O-level exams in 2008 failed, compared to 5.5% who failed nationally.

He first discovered aquaponics on YouTube, and stresses that neither he (an engineer), nor his colleagues Andy Merritt (an artist and sculptor) and Sam Henderson (a sociologist) have farming backgrounds.

The review, chaired by farmer and landowner David Fursdon, makes a series of recommendations to encourage those without farming backgrounds to enter the business and to help create an "attractive career path".

Also, coming from a farming background, it's important they know about where food comes from.

"I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.

"Namibia is one big farm," he says proudly, "although I don't come from a farming background myself.

"Not having a farming background," Mr. Posin said, "we were open to the new low-tech approaches.

Being from a farming background, Mr. Schick understands the financial necessities that can motivate selling to a developer.