Sentence examples for gathering vegetables from inspiring English sources

Traditionally, gathering vegetables and herbal medicines was a female responsibility.

In one case, in October 2012, a 68-year-old grandmother was gathering vegetables in a field, her grandchildren nearby, when she was "blasted into pieces" by a drone strike that appeared aimed directly at her.

Hunting wild animals and gathering vegetables are common activities in Tai Dam communities.

This connects to other activities such as gathering vegetables and hunting animals in the forest (Trong, 2007: 10).

On one vegetable farm I visited, a sophisticated harvesting machine pulled up row upon row of perfect carrots by their tops, gathering hundreds of vegetables every minute.

Equally important was the search for items that could be bartered: for example, collecting fruits (such as tamarind), aloe juice, lichens from limestone mountains, resin from the bark of various trees, weaving of sheep wool rugs, gathering timber and vegetable gardening.

Or like gathering their own forest vegetables for dinner, in Luang Namtha, in Laos (after your meal, you can "sleep in the villagers' homes, and there's time to watch or join in with their lively songs and dances, and have a go on some of the instruments they use").

Among adults, the hunting of big game is confined to men, whereas the gathering of vegetable foods or small animals, birds' eggs, and so on are women's tasks.

This means setting meat aside and gathering inspiration from the garden and letting vegetables play a starring role.

Łuczaj (2010) and Katz et al. (2012) noted that the lack of interest in gathering wild greens may be coupled with the low cultural status of all green vegetables (including cultivated ones).

An innovative experimental approach measures how much energy an average female spends gathering nuts in a natural environment, comparing this value with the caloric return of this vegetable resource.