Blessed as I am with a 400 square foot terrace – a veritable farm plot, by Manhattan standards – it felt crazy not to grow my own food.
An unsavoury associate of Tony's, when invited to the funeral, starts haggling over an unpaid debt; months later, the contractor renovating Tubslake asks Aitkenhead what to do about the marijuana plants in one of the barns, and she discovers that Tony had cultivated a veritable farm.
Such accommodations can mean hot water for a shower heated up in a bucket, food cooked over charcoal embers and a veritable Doctor Dolittle's farm of chickens and pigs to greet you in the morning.
I did, however, ogle dramatic landscapes of remarkable variety: rolling hills of acacia bush, scattered verdant grassland, thick forest, swamp-fringed lakes, and, on the way back to Kigali, a veritable sea of banana farms.
After passing through Igarapé Lourdes, log-laden trucks leave the indigenous territories and rumble out into the dusty terrain beyond – where cattle graze land that's far more depleted than even the Zoró territory, a veritable Eden compared to the farms and fields around it, even though it's badly degraded by indigenous standards.
The high permeability of aquaculture facilities, transport, and transplantation of these species have resulted in many unintentional introductions: oyster farms have become veritable gateways into Mediterranean coastal waters for alien macrophytes [213].
There, I found a veritable cornucopia of information on food, factory farming and the environmental impact of something everyone has to do multiple times per day -- eating.
BARUTA, Russia — With its winding dirt lanes framed by lilacs, quaint wooden houses and graceful onion-domed church, the tiny farming hamlet of Baruta was once a veritable postcard of Russian bucolic bliss.
Lisa's Booby Trap remained a veritable one-horse stable, residing in a barn on the Central New York farm owned by Calley's parents.
It was Lauren, who would have turned our home into Old MacDonald's Farm if she could have and was primarily responsible for Ramona, Lizzie and the veritable menagerie of goldfish, frogs, hamsters and gerbils we have fed, supported and done everything for but put through college.
Just up the way a thirsty electric grid of commerce is fed, non-stop by hundreds of massive, multi-hundred foot tall, modernist wind farms of in the format of neo-evolutionary towers each grouping, standing in vast bunches, a veritable mute sentinels against the ever-present gales.
