Sentence examples for place of farms from inspiring English sources

She said that the city's greenmarkets have come to take the place of farms "as a way for New Yorkers to reach out to their farming neighbors".

He grew up in a tiny town on the African island of Zanzibar, a rural place of farms and unpaved roads.

Marquette County, home to 65,000 people and a place of farms and blueberries and iron ore mines, has had these fairs on and off for well more than a century.

But whatever happens to the Doha round, the arguments over the place of farming in the EU will continue and with them, the questioning of Europeans' own sense of themselves as people with deep connections to the land.

"We all agreed to the 2002 reform," says Catherine Colonna, France's Europe minister, "and it cannot be changed until 2013 .But there is also a more general resistance to reform that reflects the special place of farming in the French imagination.

But restrictions on construction have helped to preserve the hamlet as a place of farm fields, big old barns, rusty pickup trucks, horse pastures and long winding roads that only seem to go deeper into the woods.

"I can no longer be bothered with the dumbed-down sensational plotlines", says one who goes by the moniker 50yearlistener, while another wrote: "Hopefully a new editor will concentrate less on sexual liaisons and more on the place of farming today and its importance to our future in producing high-quality food".

The newly formed "land girls" took the place of farm boys, while the Women's Institute collected medicinal plants and turned gluts of plums into jam to succour a nation desperate for sugar (no one, it seems, was much impressed by carrot lollies).

The effects of sense of place on farming households' disaster preparedness are also unclear.

"I remember it as a rural place, full of farms, definitely not a bedroom community.

Antibiotics do have a place on farms, but the benefits of their use can likely be preserved while minimizing harm.