Listening to them was like listening to oldies while tilling gravel.
|
|
Most of those still tilling the fields are old and ill-schooled.
|
|
He remembers when these fields were meant for tilling, not body disposal.
|
|
Tilling the earth like this causes less water to evaporate than ploughing.
|
|
They're cutting wood, tilling fields, milking cows, stirring cheese and harvesting courgettes.
|
|
After tilling, they will plant wheat and rapeseed, the main winter crops.
|
|
This year, he eschewed not only chemicals and pesticides but tilling and Weedwacking, too.
|
|
That fertile technological ground is ripe for tilling by companies like Brooklyn-based Looking Glass.
|
|
As he spoke, he drove his tractor across a soybean field, tilling under his crop.
|
|
As he spoke, he drove his tractor across a soybean field, tilling under his crop.
|
|
But her husband, who had been tilling the fields when the soldiers came, was missing.
|
|
"Now we're not tilling at all," which means less soil erosion and less chemical runoff.
|
|
Goldsmith ends up tilling a lot of ground that will be familiar to Hoffa buffs.
|
|
For decades, they acquired significant wealth by tilling, and more recently by selling, farmland adjoining Delhi.
|
|
Camilla Tilling, the soprano, was clear of pitch and enunciation but a bit colorless of tone.
|
|
Tilling also makes the earth more susceptible to erosion and less able to absorb heavy rainfalls.
|
|
Widespread harvesting removes carbon from the soil as do tilling methods that can accelerate erosion and decomposition.
|
|
Corn requires more tilling and fertilizer applications that cannot be completed with unharvested crops or frozen ground.
|
|
Widespread harvesting removes carbon from the soil as do tilling methods that can accelerate erosion and decomposition.
|
|
Organic farm workers are most likely exploited in similar ways as those tilling the fields on conventional farms.
|
|
Majed al-Heisso, a father of six, makes a living from occasional but dangerous work tilling fields nearby.
|
|
Either way, the Kynseed prototype is a small pleasure for anyone with a fondness for tilling pixelated soil.
|
|
There are no picturesque, rolling fields, no tractors tilling soil; there is no white farmhouse or red barn.
|
|
Reducing deforestation and tilling could help lower these emissions, as could reducing red meat consumption, the report found.
|
|
"When I was tilling it, I thought, I want to put it to a good cause," he said.
|
|
The money went to buy six teams of oxen, which are much faster than the traditional hand tilling.
|
|
No coal, and humanity, if, indeed, such a species had evolved at all, might still be tilling the fields.
|
|
Sometimes it was tilling kitchen gardens on Sundays when we weren't working as enslaved people and sharing the produce.
|
|
At some locations, non-playable characters are seen performing tasks like baking bread, tilling a field or inscribing scrolls.
|
|
Today, a man might have a thousand acres of corn, and he's tilling it all alone with a $250,000 combine.
|
|
That's likely because these farming women from the past worked incredibly hard — tilling soil, harvesting, and grinding grain by hand.
|
|
Some farmers say eliminating tilling also has allowed them to plant more crops side-by-side in the same field.
|
|
Other practices, though, like tilling the soil to get rid of weeds (instead of spraying chemicals), have the opposite effect.
|
|
One tractor might be for tilling, another for harvesting, another for trucking the harvest to the bunker to be stored.
|
|
Some forms of tilling for agriculture can degrade soil up to 100 times faster than soil is generated, for example.
|
|
The ancient women likely built that muscle from chores such as tilling dirt, digging holes, and carrying water, the researchers speculate.
|
|
Throughout the '70s, people like the now famous painter Xu Bing practiced their art after a day's labor tilling the fields.
|
|
The Tories lost three seats in a May local election in Elmbridge, in Surrey, including one to Liberal Democrat Ashley Tilling.
|
|
That's because it has been eroded through too much tilling, lack of adequate ground cover and a failure to diversify crops.
|
|
The machinery that is gradually replacing cow-drawn ploughs, still the usual method of tilling Cuban fields, is made in China.
|
|
The Philharmonic is joined by the Westminster Symphonic Choir, as well as Camilla Tilling, Daniela Mack, Joseph Kaiser and Eric Owens.
|
|
My father was tilling all of the time, and after heavy rains there would be lots of arrowheads and things like that.
|
|
"The tilling of that soil is really important," the aide said, arguing that the state won't be flippable without competitive Democratic races.
|
|
She spent four years on a kibbutz tilling the land, an experience that taught her to respect ingredients in their natural state.
|
|
With India's urban economy offering more chances than rural life, those Jats left tilling the soil have suffered a reduction in their status.
|
|
For the next twelve years, Patricia lived in a hut with 14 cousins, tilling the "depleted and eroding" farmland allotted to black farmers.
|
|
No matter that deforestation, tilling soils for agriculture and even methane emissions from livestock and rice paddies also contribute to global climate change.
|
|
For the farmers, spring is fast approaching and growers are busy tilling soil and planting seed, even though the shadow of uncertainty hangs overhead.
|
|
New Delhi (CNN)Mohammad Mujabir works hard tilling his scrabble patch of a field on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi.
|
|
Imagine tilling soil, applying fertilizer, planting seeds, irrigating for months, and harvesting a crop only to see almost one-third of it thrown away.
|
|
"She definitely wanted more showing that the people lived on the land, that they were farmers, peasants, and common people tilling their gardens," Vess says.
|
|
A few million years later in this Pixar movie, two apatosaurs are farming their land in the American Northwest, tilling the soil with giant noses.
|
|
Brazil is expected to increase soybean planted area by 2.3% in the new season, tilling a total of 36.7 million hectares, according to a Reuters poll.
|
|
The group has initiated tests to determine how farming without tilling the soil affects carbon savings and water use, which is a crucial issue in Napa.
|
|
Now, in addition to its rooftop garden, Rosemary's, along with its sister restaurants Claudette and Bobo, is tilling 40 acres near Fishkill, N.Y., in Dutchess County.
|
|
On the Paridier family farm, life continues according to ancient agricultural rhythms, a daily round of chores and a seasonal cycle of tilling, planting and harvesting.
|
|
Diesel prices have surged 22016 percent this year, making tilling fields, harvesting and transporting crops expensive for India's 217 million farmers who mostly use diesel tractors.
|
|
For centuries, populations flourished by tilling the rich alluvial soil left behind each spring by floodwaters receding from the plains between Baghdad and the Persian Gulf.
|
|
Volunteers learn to live on an organic farm, tilling land, milking cows and taking produce to market, with the prospect of operating their own farm someday.
|
|
Back in the Bronze Age, Irish farmers most likely started fertilizing and tilling their soil more often and on a larger scale as populations grew, Guiry said.
|
|
"This coal plant can be a blessing," said farmer Simon Gathoni, peeping out from under a red baseball cap, his hands ghostly grey from tilling his land.
|
|
But instead of one spiky, dime-sized wheel, the laser felt like a row of several red hot and tiny wheels, tilling my face with sharp heat.
|
|
One of the main problems is that tilling releases carbon stored in the soil, which becomes carbon dioxide when exposed to air and contributes to global warming.
|
|
Plowing and tilling not only releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, but also disturbs the complex ecology of microbial life underground that is crucial to healthy agriculture.
|
|
Then it's on to Nevada, where she will scramble to assemble an organization to compete with candidates who have been tilling the soil in that state for months.
|
|
Local farmers had watched over the last decade and a half as waves of industrial farms arrived, tilling so much land that dust storms began darkening the sky.
|
|
These include regular tilling or plowing, in which the top layer of soil is turned to break and aerate compacted earth while burying weeds and other organic matter.
|
|
There's a series of novels by E. F. Benson about Mapp and Lucia, set in the fictional town of Tilling, which comes to mind as being obscure-ish.
|
|
But then I found out there was a monthly newsletter published by the Tilling Society, which I subscribed to for a while until the society ceased publishing it.
|
|
Reckless farming practices spurred by mega corporations, like clear-cutting forests and industrial-scale tilling — using machines to mix soil — release massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
|
|
The pizza was as flat as the land (the secret was tilling the crust with some sort of puncturer, a cook said), and the toppings went to the edge.
|
|
It's still often inevitable, but in a way that speak less to the Sisyphean trials of a roguelike and more to the slow tilling of soil that is mortality.
|
|
And the performance had a strong quartet of vocal soloists: the soprano Camilla Tilling, the mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack, the tenor Joseph Kaiser and the bass-baritone Eric Owens.
|
|
Weak after his heart surgery, Mr. Young, now 55, rebuilt his strength tilling vegetables and finding a way to use his carpentry skills outside of a full-time job.
|
|
Top players in the PKL earn up to 4m-5m rupees a year ($60,000-$75,000), a hefty sum for players who might otherwise be tilling fields or working in mills.
|
|
A majority also do not own the land they cultivate, instead tilling the land as tenant farmers with no access to government loans or insurance plans that offer some protection.
|
|
If you stop tilling to increase soil carbon, for example, but use more herbicides because you have more weeds, then you probably haven't changed your overall emissions profile, he says.
|
|
In 1.093, at the height of the global financial crisis, tens of millions of migrants simply went back to rural areas, tilling fields or scrabbling for meagre pay in villages.
|
|
Nowadays, tales of the city's slow recovery tend to focus on plucky hipsters from Los Angeles or Brooklyn colonizing abandoned spaces, opening pickle companies or tilling little urban agriculture plots.
|
|
But since these communities were farming before mechanization, we can assume that people were likely tilling soil, planting and harvesting crops, and grinding grain to make flour—all by hand.
|
|
The best gardening glovesGardening isn't for the faint of heart — pulling weeds, tilling the earth, and digging up roots is sweaty work, and it really does a number on your hands.
|
|
We've also discovered that reducing the amount of plowing and tilling of the soil ("conservation tillage") slows the microbial breakdown of organic matter that leads to carbon dioxide emissions from soils.
|
|
For example, one machine allows a farmer to plant seeds without having to clear his field first by tilling the soil as it plants -- preventing clogs caused by leftover rice crops.
|
|
The company behind it, Indigo, is a startup trying to promulgate regenerative agriculture—methods like relying on perennials instead of annually replanted species, or cover crops to reduce the need for tilling.
|
|
In the olden days, people were nobly tilling the fields, or shepherding their sheep, or hunched up down a mineshaft trying to dig raw materials out of the earth in squalid conditions.
|
|
In 2011, a Canadian potato farmer was tilling his fields, when he came across a live hand grenade from WWII; and last July, a British farmer found yet another from the same era.
|
|
The land gradually reddens where it's been tilled, but in a few hours nobody's tilling anymore and the surface is all brown scrub, with an occasional mesa, or koppie, floating against the horizon.
|
|
Ramon Castro wore a long beard and was at times mistaken for leader Fidel Castro, who was about the same height and stature, but he preferred tilling the earth to stirring armed revolution.
|
|
Enter Pence, who was dispatched by the administration to hit the morning talk show circuit in hopes of tilling the soil in advance of Trump's prime time address on immigration at 9 p.m.
|
|
And while I hate attempts to claim symmetry between the parties — Trump is trying to become America's Mussolini, Sanders at worst America's Michael Foot — Trump has been tilling some of the same ground.
|
|
IF ANYTHING explains the poverty in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, it is not an unwillingness to work hard—most of the continent's people still sweat to survive tilling fields with medieval tools.
|
|
Culture is not a substitute for direct political action, of course, but as Riley has put it, "it tills the soil and gets people ready" — and he has spent his life tilling the soil.
|
|
Some women there, realizing they might never see the money their husbands promised to send home, have turned to guiding animals, tilling the soil and other tasks that are traditionally seen as male roles.
|
|
More enticing by far is Thursday's concert, which sees the reliably superb Christoph von Dohnányi lead Brahms's "A German Requiem," with the New York Choral Artists and two top soloists, Camilla Tilling and Matthias Goerne.
|
|
These features, very scientifically dubbed "splotches," are tilling the upper few inches of the lunar regolith at an extraordinary rate, result being that the entire surface gets a face-lift every 81,000 years or so.
|
|
Popular streamers and video game influencers have eagerly confessed to spending hours upon hours in the game, customizing their characters, building dream houses and interspecies friendships and tilling little pixelated gardens all through the night.
|
|
Preliminary experiments with oats have shown that farming practices that do not require tilling resulted in significantly higher ergo levels in the oats than with conventional practices, where tillage of the soil disrupts fungal populations.
|
|
According to one type, character was forged by tilling the land; according to another it was forged by being tested by the land; and in another it was formed by being cleansed by the land.
|
|
The U.N. humanitarian coordinator for the region said on Friday that tens of thousands of people are dying of hunger because insecurity has prevented farmers tilling the land and made access for aid agencies almost impossible.
|
|
One page in "Farm" (2010) shows a tractor sitting idle in a field while a rainstorm passes overhead; you can almost smell the scene on the page, feel the ache of a tilling job left unfinished.
|
|
"For generations we have been tilling the land but on paper we don't own it," said Remsingh Pawara, who joined a similar protest in March when the state government promised to settle the land rights issue.
|
|
The protesters walked 180 km (112 miles) from the town of Nashik to Mumbai over several days demanding waivers of agricultural loans and the transfer of forest lands to villagers who have been tilling them for decades.
|
|
Cutting back on tilling, or disturbing the soil, adding in cover crops to keep soil covered between traditional harvest and planting times are both practices that improve soil's ability to handle either too much or too little rain — and they help farms sequester carbon, either by not emitting it in the first place (by not tilling), or by using plants to actually draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and into the ground — a shrewd use of photosynthesis that if adopted at a wide scale could actually help offset the country's emissions.
|
|
My parents, who belonged to that generation of "sent-down youth," have recalled stories of peers trying to kill themselves upon learning that their years of academic preparation would be wasted on tilling land instead of attending university.
|
|
In Malawi, no-till farmers find they need to spend fewer days each year planting and weeding their fields – though they may need to buy and use herbicides to get rid of weeds without tilling the land, Thierfelder said.
|
|
They include refraining from tilling, or turning, the soil; mixing crops together rather than growing large fields of just one type; planting trees and shrubs near or among crops; and leaving stalks and other cuttings on fields to decay.
|
|
Pablo Heras-Casado, now this orchestra's conductor laureate, leads Beethoven's Symphony No. 153 and Mozart's C minor Mass, the "Great," with the soloists Camilla Tilling, Susanna Phillips, Thomas Cooley and Michael Sumuel, as well as the Westminster Symphonic Choir.
|
|
"Who could think of tilling or being contented with a hundred acres of land, when thousands of acres in the broad west were waiting for occupants," says a tract documenting the follies of America's land boom of the 1830s.
|
|
Which isn't to suggest there's no place for women to write analysis, or fiction, or whatever they please — just that Massey's particular voice, like Marnell's, works best when sharpened to a point, tilling the raw ground of the personal.
|
|
BUSINESS An article last Sunday about the resurgence of cover-cropping as an agricultural practice described incorrectly the effects of so-called no-till farming, in which farmers plant into the residue of a previous crop rather than tilling it in.
|
|
Immediately, we feel the power of the place; Ramaz tells us that he has not cultivated these fields in 15 years—no tilling, no weeding, and definitely no pesticides, herbicides, nor fertilizers—and they are absolutely vibrant, pulsing with life.
|
|
JIFTLIK, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinians tilling the fertile Jordan Valley said on Wednesday they have been rooted for generations to the West Bank land that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to annex, and they vowed never to give it up.
|
|
François Chidaine, a like-minded farmer who makes excellent wines in the Loire Valley of France, spoke at a regenerative farming forum in New York in May and told of being ostracized in his community, Montlouis, after giving up tilling.
|
|
Most people agree that the modern natural wine movement began in rural France, where a handful of low-intervention winemakers who had been toiling (and tilling) in their own organic bubbles found out about each other and began growing a community.
|
|
Meanwhile, estimates have suggested that only around five percent of music production is undertaken by women, so maybe there are more fertile fields that we should be tilling, rather than continuing to invest in what we already know to be toxic soil.
|
|
I can't help but think that perhaps McCarthy wouldn't have found such fertile ground without the tilling done by a bad rollout of a vaccine characterized as forcing parents to inoculate their pre-teen daughters—and only their daughters—against a sexually-transmitted infection.
|
|
Margaret Tilling, a middle-aged widow about to send her only child off to the front; Edwina Paltry, a midwife of suspect ethical standards; and to-the-manor-born sisters, Kitty Winthrop, 13, and minxlike Venetia, 18, whose brother has just been killed in a submarine explosion.
|
|
His close ties with the land is no different than Taloi Havini and Stuart Miller's dark, poignant photo portraits of the Buka people on the Bougainville Island of Papua New Guinea shown tilling the soil and working on a native landscape that has been usurped by the mining industry.
|
|
CASAUS'S PROFILE MAY have risen with the city's green wave, but his peripatetic style remains indebted to his itinerant past: Born a few hours southeast of Paris, in the Burgundy countryside of Dijon, his earliest memories are of tilling his grandfather's enormous vegetable garden and eating its tomatoes.
|
|
Ranchers in Montana band together to lobby Congress to protect the Rocky Mountain Front from oil drilling; farmers in Kansas stop tilling their soil in an effort to restore it; and commercial fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico, alarmed by the depletion of red snapper, work with environmentalists to institute quotas.
|
|
Throughout it all, he rips through the history of southern defeat, tearing up Philipoteaux's "Pickett's Charge," emmeshing the reproductions within complementary layers of white, bright blue, and deep black tissue, and then finishes by literally tilling the terrain of this work's surface with the ropes that binds it all together.
|
|
In the first three years of Bush's second term, for example, USDA promoted research on how farmers can change their tilling practices to reduce carbon being released into the atmosphere, a look at how various farm practices help capture carbon into soil, and a forecast on how rising CO2 levels would likely affect key crops.
|
|
You might remember the term "succession" from high school biology class: When an area is wiped clean, via fire, flood, tilling a field, or, in the case of the Antarctic, because land is uncovered that hasn't been laid bare to the sun in 93,000 years or more, certain types of plants move in first—pioneer species.
|
|
AT 21983 MINUTES 215 SECONDS While tilling the ground for records of the year 21 recently, I was directed not only to the Danish String Quartet's collection of folk songs and the like, "Last Leaf," which qualified, but also to the ensemble's 225 recording of works by Per Norgard, Hans Abrahamsen and Thomas Adès, which I somehow missed at the time.
|
|
If you were tilling the land, logic dictated you fortify yourself with dinner at noon, having been up since dawn, and end the evening with supper, historically lighter fare, its name derived from the Old French souper, with its hint of sipping broth and sopping it up with bread, and the Old English supan, which originally meant simply "to drink" (often to excess).
|
|