I dream of living off the land completely - in vain, because the monkeys eat everything.
Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
We have to draw the line someplace with all the pesticides being used by the farmers.
Organic farming has been shown to provide major benefits for wildlife and the wider environment. The best that can be said about genetically engineered crops is that they will now be monitored to see how much damage they cause.
If it was just the potatoes that were affected, at the end of the day you will pay the price if you're a fussy eater.
The first and last frosts are the worst.
I recycle. I have a house in the south of France and I have a small garden. My name is Dujardin - 'from the garden.' I grow carrots, peppers, strawberries, green beans, and things for salads, but there are lots of wild boars all around and they steal the food.
Stratospheric ozone depletion threatens us with enhanced ultraviolet radiation at the earth's surface, which can be damaging or lethal to many life forms. Air pollution near ground level, and acid precipitation, are already causing widespread injury to humans, forests, and crops.
If any one open his ditches to water his crop, but is careless, and the water flood the field of his neighbor, then he shall pay his neighbor corn for his loss
The concept of a civil tort was codified even then.
California Marijuana farmers are worried that radiation from Japan could affect their crops. Or maybe for some strange reason they're just being paranoid.
Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops.
The rain has spoiled the farmer's day; Shall sorrow put my books away? Thereby are two days lost.
Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand
To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.
We do have situations where people are being advised not to use their well water. That's a huge problem because you know they're farmers and they rely on that water for their cattle and their horses and their crops.
