gardening

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Recent Examples of gardening This week, three Chicago area gardening pros share inspiration and ideas on what to do now in order to reap bountiful returns later. Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2025 Contact the Johnson County Extension gardening hotline at 913-715-7050 or email [email protected]. Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 28 Feb. 2025 Featuring plant, craft and food vendors, expert speakers on all things gardening and kids’ activities. Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2025 On Fridays, the campus participates in Everybody Grows, which gives students a chance to try out activities like gardening, yoga and a science lab. Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gardening
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Noun
  • Tim Johnson is senior director of horticulture at the Chicago Botanic Garden.
    Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2025
  • In the meantime, back in England, a groundbreaking experiment was about to change horticulture and world history forever, and P. annua played a central role.
    Ian Rose, JSTOR Daily, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In an effort to permit hemp cultivation while prohibiting production of a psychoactive plant, the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 defined hemp as all parts of the cannabis plant with less than 0.3 percent concentration of delta-9 THC by dry weight.
    Katharine Neill Harris, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025
  • After a military coup in 1961, the new authoritarian leadership tied its economic program to the cultivation of a citizenry that was smaller and better educated.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • From the end of World War II to 1973, U.S. business productivity (outside of farming) grew at a brisk annual rate of 2.8 percent.
    Matthew J. Slaughter, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
  • By contrast, insect farming has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 80% when compared to conventional livestock farming methods.
    Oyku Ilgar, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The King is known to be a supporter of sustainable agriculture.
    Lucy Handley, CNBC, 3 Mar. 2025
  • And industries that rely on younger people, including construction and agriculture, are in need of staff.
    Bryan Mena, CNN, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Aside from that, the tractor uses the same second-generation technology stack as its tractors for field tillage.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 6 Jan. 2025
  • John Deere’s first-generation tractors were designed specifically for the slowest and easiest works, which is fall tillage with a chisel file.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 6 Jan. 2025

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“Gardening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gardening. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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