Example Sentences

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Their work is farming, said Rosalinda Guillen, a farmworker justice leader and executive director of Community-to-Community Development, a food sovereignty and immigrant rights advocacy organization.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 22, 2023

Intensive farming is often used as shorthand for high-yield farming — that is, farming that produces more food per hectare.

From Salon • Apr. 10, 2023

"On the one hand, they have an interest in their well-being, in their livelihood, which is farming, but they also have other interests. Many of them are a lot older, they have social welfare concerns."

From Reuters • Jun. 26, 2022

Back in the Faroe Island's fjords, a firm called Ocean Rainforest is farming seaweed.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2021

They've a little shack up, and Jake is farming the community, as he calls it.

From Neighbours by Stead, Robert J. C.