Sentence examples for sweet highland from inspiring English sources
The top all-rounder of the group is the Eleuthera ($50), a melange of 12- and 18-year-old single malts that tinges sweet Highland malts with a hint of Islay smoky peat.
In China, the introduction of maize and sweet potatoes to the highlands provided vital sustenance -- and erosion that flooded rice paddies.
Yams, taro, sago, and bananas are the lowland staple foods, and the sweet potato is the main highland food; pig husbandry is widespread.
In the eastern highlands, yams, beans, and sweet potatoes are used as food crops, while arabica coffee and tea are export commodities.
A Uniting Church-funded investigation into the effects of the drought, drawing on visits to 30 villages scattered through the highlands, found that staple sweet potato crops had been decimated due to the combined effects of drought and frost since the El Niño began in April.
Sweet potato was domesticated in the Andean highlands, and researchers recently determined that the crop spread west across Polynesia before Europeans arrived.
"In the highland areas people are almost exclusively reliant on subsistence farming, farming of sweet potatoes.
"Across much of the country, from the highlands to remote islands … staple crops became largely unavailable, starting with taro, then sweet potato, and with even resilient cassava suffering, largely from borer infestations".
HIGHLAND PARK Highland Park Public Library Friends of the Library Poetry Night Series, Jane McKinley.
HIGHLAND AVENGER, by Hannah Howell.
