pasture
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“There’s no paid staff, and we mostly support niche tech projects, like people exploring new ways to preserve trees in Morocco or to regeneratively regrow a pasture in Oregon,” Khosla told me.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Now she breeds her own yaks on 120 acres of pasture, foothills and mesa tops high in bucolic Ridgway, about 290 miles west of Denver.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Rural communities emptied as young people went to work in cities, allowing brush to cover swaths of former pasture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Out to pasture: Despite a big-name cast, apparently good ratings and an Emmy push, Netflix has canceled the sci-fi thriller “The Boroughs” after one season.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
The peasants went over it to and from the villages to gather wood or to pasture the sheep.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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But that focus on greener pastures is as persistent as the apparent blood feud between Texas and Tennessee.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
If Lily, Mopple and the rest can set their part of the world right, there’s no reason we can’t find our way to better pastures, too.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
“Take a good look while you can, boyo,” Cal’s neighbor, Mart, says as they survey the surrounding pastures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
But narrowed spreads and dividend cuts may be reason enough for some investors to seek greener pastures.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
The Polyface turkeys also spend time in the pastures.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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More recently, Lake, who grows vegetables such as asparagus, tomatoes and zucchini, as well as pastured meat, has been using software and an app from a company called Tend.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026
Cows and sheep should not be allowed to roam over public lands and should be pastured in fenced areas and protected by guard dogs.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
When pastured animals graze in areas that are dry or in drought, the pastures are often irrigated or the animals are given feed.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2022
Lee sources the beef for her burgers from Seven Hills Food, the slaughterhouse and processing facility that specializes in pastured Virginia beef.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2021
Zoyla and Gregoria and I used to play market together while we pastured the animals.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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The tradition of alpine pasturing, or “transhumance,” spreads all across the Alps, including Austria, Italy and Germany.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
In the past 30 years, swaths of Nicaragua's vast Caribbean forests have been destroyed by settlers clearing land for agriculture, ranchers pasturing cattle, and loggers harvesting precious wood.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2020
“We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2015
“And what is the history? The horse pasturing has been going on for a long time there with no objection.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2015
Three of his young men were afield, pasturing herds in other woods; one he had sent with a fat boar for tribute into town, the boy to serve while the suitors got their fill.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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