Sentence examples for living fences from inspiring English sources

In 2005, Arianne Cease traveled to Senegal as a Peace Corps volunteer, working to develop sustainable agroforestry practices like the use of living fences and windbreaks.

Usually, old living fences composed of cacti and other plants remained around these private pastures, delineating them.

There are few other opportunities for improving forage production because of the lack of land, however, leguminous trees and shrubs can be used as living fences or as single trees in back yards.

Streets cut a wide berth around groves of Osage orange trees, imported from Nebraska by settlers as living fences before the days of barbed wire.

Terrace cultivation, living fences, multipurpose trees (e.g., the Albida acacia [Faidherbia albida]), fodder trees, and multi-strata systems (featuring trees of different heights, as in shade-grown coffee) are also used in tropical systems to combine trees with other crops and livestock.

Pots and home garden boundaries showed the lowest diversity in this season due to the dominance of L. aromatica in pots, and T. indica and L. leucocephala as major constituents of living fences.> -wrap-foot>> -wrap-foot> Number of species per 100 m.

In Latin America, species of Opuntia, Cereus, and other genera are planted around houses, often forming a "living fence".

The hedge plant gorse was introduced to New Zealand as a living fence and became a prominent feature of the landscape, particularly on the Canterbury Plains.

There was little wood to make fences, and privet, which probably came over with the English, was grown as a living fence.

But on a trip to Mount Vernon in the early 1990's, he discovered several robust pear and apple cordons, a subtype of espalier trained as a living fence.

"Is that a memorial?" He refers to the chapel's memorial as a "living fence," but he says his feelings on whether it should remain change daily.