Sentence examples for grubbing up from inspiring English sources

But there is "huge opposition" to grubbing up.

Thus we would increase carbon uptake by grubbing up "wooded areas containing slow-growing trees" (that is, natural forest) and planting "faster growing species".

The Languedoc is home to a third of the country's vines and the government has encouraged "grubbing up" by small producers in recent years as the focus shifts to quality rather than quantity.

Again, a good instance of grubbing up, with controlled explosions and pickaxes instead of felling and burning! bSee my book Postmodernismo y apocalipsis.

They are currently being tried out in vineyards in the south of France, to check that "grubbing up" of vines is done legally and ecologically.

Some 42% of that went on restructuring and converting vineyards, including "grubbing up" - that is, paying growers to cut the size of their vineyards because of an oversupply of wine in the market.

Thousands of miles of hedgerow were grubbed up, farming was increasingly industrialised, quantity replaced quality.

The orchard had been grubbed up for a car park; the granary was The Granary Restaurant, the woodshed a shop and so on.

But above all, she says, there has been deforestation, with the family woodlots grubbed up to plant tea and the hills all around denuded for firewood.

But it was nearly lost for ever: in the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge ordered that Cambodia's pepper vines be grubbed up and replaced with rice paddies.

Analysts expect a harvest of 11m-12m tonees, ofe of the smallest in a generation, after many farmers grubbed up their failing, waterlogged crops and replanted fields with barley.