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
Back in the pasture, Namgyal moved the herd down the fence line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
These ranchers have also grappled with high costs for necessities like animal feed, pasture maintenance and farm labor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Out to pasture: The Cold War spy thriller “Ponies” has been canceled after just 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
He also feuded with bandmates who tried to steer the Bayou Boys into more commercial country-and-western pastures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Four years ago, a major drought dried up pastures and water supplies, forcing ranchers to sell their livestock.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 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
In the pastures, there are giant bales of hay—some upright, some tumbled on their sides.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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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
And while players won’t get free laundry and dry cleaning, or a menu containing pastured eggs and wild-caught seafood in player dining, they at least get access to cold plunges and courtesy cars.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
Shopping for 100% grassfed beef or pastured chicken used to mean seeking out a specialty butcher shop, visiting a farmers' market, or going straight to the source by stopping by a local farm.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2021
Last year, $14-per-pound exotic mushrooms, $20 pastured chickens and $50 bottles of olive oil were not uncommon purchases.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2019
White ranchers pastured cattle there, especially during the dry years when no grass grew below the mountain.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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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
The literature of veterinary medicine abounds in similar examples: swine eating sprayed cockleburs with consequent severe illness, lambs eating sprayed thistles, bees poisoned by pasturing on mustard sprayed after it came into bloom.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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