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Mr. Wallace, our Area Manager in #Nyeri, #Kenya🇰🇪, supports a #woman Ann to push the boundaries of #sustainable #farming and #agriculture. To nurture her local #community, Ann wants to partner with universities for #research, and educate local farmers via farming #workshops.

#PalUpNow! #Africa #...
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🌱Ride Pal Supports Sustainable Farmer And Agriculture Leader Ann
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At a time when Lyford was in decline, Duke Energy Renewables arrived in 2012 to build the first phases of a massive new wind farm—installing 171 turbines across 23,000 acres of leased farmland here (an area roughly the size of Disney World), 30 miles west of the Gulf of Mexico. texasobserver.org/willacy-texa

The Texas Observer · The Winds of Willacy: Inside Texas' Largest Wind FarmThe coastal gales of the Rio Grande Valley have helped rejuvenate this small farming community.

The family farm - years of 'bashing and burning'

"I bashed the trees down and burnt everything … I was a bash and burner."

"It took about 200 years to transform a once wild island into an agricultural powerhouse,
farmers raised to conquer the land; slashing native vegetation to make way for agriculture.Much of King Island's native vegetation has been cleared for farmland."
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abc.net.au/news/2025-04-21/kin
#extinction #farming #FamilyFarm #Australia #LandClearing #culture #SettlerSociety #machinery #SlashandBurn #deforestation #meat #biodiversity

ABC News · Farmer Fred Perry's 30-year conservation project creates bird haven after years of 'bashing and burning'By Meg Fergusson