fallow

The Landover data center site was proposed by Lerner Enterprises, a D.C.-based real estate firm that’s operated by the family that owns the Washington Nationals and has rights to that fallow lot.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

As a result, fallow fields are in a "deplorable state, and at the slightest spark, the blaze spreads like wildfire" due to vegetation dried out by the heat.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

In May, the powerful Imperial Irrigation District nixed Rucci’s plan to buy farmland, leave it fallow and use the allotted water from the Colorado River to cool the data center.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

With Glastonbury on a fallow year, Donington Park in Leicestershire is hosting the biggest festival in the UK this summer.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

The fear was that if the bomb failed, government support for all other work in the field would cease, and research into the atom’s benefits to society would go fallow.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Swidden-fallow systems, he argues, maintain a mosaic of fields, fallows, and forests, that is heterogeneous and therefore resilient to climate change.

From National Geographic ● Mar. 8, 2016

Today Mr. Skov fallows a fifth of his fields, and canal water that once flowed from March to October arrives in June and vanishes as early as August.

From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2015

Around 25% are using improved fallows with nitrogen-fixing trees, a scientific farming approach developed and introduced into Sauri by the World Agroforestry Center.

From Time Magazine Archive

Grinding his teeth, Belisarius looked across at his right wing, which was flying in disorder over the fallows, pursued by the Goths.

From A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Felix Dahn

Then lead, calm votress, where some sheety lake Cheers the lone heath, or some time hallowed pile,     Or upland fallows gray     Reflect its last cool gleam.

From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Donald G. Mitchell

Crops that could be fallowed during dry spells, leaving more water for the environment, were supplanted by almond and pistachio orchards, which require water in wet years and dry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2024

Researchers applied crushed rock, both metabasalt and olivine, on 5 acres of a fallowed cornfield in the Sacramento Valley.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2023

Wells ran dry, farmers fallowed fields and cities restricted watering grass.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2023

Some surplus water will be poured across fallowed farm fields so it can soak into the ground and recharge sinking aquifers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2023

She fallowed me out of the room, and danced before me down the oak staircase, clearing the portion from the first landing at a bound.

From Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood by George MacDonald

Options include “more efficient irrigation, less water-intensive crops and short-term fallowing of fields,” according to Michael Cohen, a senior fellow at the Pacific Institute.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

“Water shortages, mandatory restrictions, land fallowing and job loss all impact our state and local economies.”

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024

It is seen as a better option than year-round fallowing, which the agency employed between 2003 and 2017.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024

The results, published in Nature Communications, suggest that variation in efficiency due to farming practices could save as much water as switching crops or fallowing fields.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024

This practice is called "fallowing," and is very ancient; it is much less common now that crops like mangolds and swedes are grown, which can, if necessary, be hoed all the summer.

From Lessons on Soil by E. J. Russell