Sentence examples for thriving farming from inspiring English sources

He recalled it as a "really beautiful" place, a thriving farming community that also attracted tourists.

VAL D'ORCIA, ITALY — Castiglioncello del Trinoro, a medieval village in the heart of Tuscany set amid the pine woods of the Val d'Orcia, was once a thriving farming community.

Until the end of World War II, Westport was a thriving farming and fishing community and the bread basket for New Bedford and Fall River, large towns that have themselves fallen on hard times.

It had grown into a thriving farming community from its early days as a military-base and rural retreat.

Founded in 1937, the family-owned agribusiness also has a thriving farming operation that produces more than 30 crops, from lettuce and garlic to pistachios and wine grapes; breeds thoroughbred horses; and runs a popular inn and restaurant, according to the company website.

A thriving farm village within the Town (township) of Yonkers (established in 1788), Yonkers was connected to New York City by railroad in 1849.

Smaller, hip cities such as Portland and Austin also have thriving urban farming scenes, tied in with a culture of community involvement, the local food movement and sustainability.

Like most Mennonite villages, Little Belize is an industrious place, its economy thriving on farming and commerce.

The area has a thriving mixed farming system that supplies the metropolitans of Bindura, Chinhoyi and Harare with a variety of agricultural produce.

A thriving small farm sector helps rural areas to retain the young people who would otherwise be driven to migrate to overcrowded cities, where they face an uncertain future.

In a past tense rich with nostalgia, and a voice filled with regret, Urquhart builds up a picture of a vanished idyll, a thriving fruit farm populated by an extended family sure of its place in the world.