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Noun
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Farming is still integral to daily life, and the festival honors this tropical fruit and like longtime growers like Lady Di, who has been cultivating pineapples since 1974.—
Taryn White,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026 -
And the farmer’s market is focused around Alabama growers and purveyors.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
15 May 2026
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But although the edifice built at great expense—by Fannie Lou Hamer, by John Lewis, by the bloodied limbs of Mississippi sharecroppers and Alabama marchers—has not been entirely bulldozed, only the facade remains.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2026
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Growing up in Harlem, Quié idolized Gabriel, the son of sharecroppers and one of twenty kids.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Dressing gardens with compost helps improve soil structure and fertility, supports sustainable gardening practices, keeps ecosystems in balance and can reduce greenhouse gases, agriculturists tell us.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2026
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Despite that, effective control over such management priorities has long rested with agriculturalists and hunters, whose interests are not always shared by the vast majority of Coloradans.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
16 Feb. 2026
Noun
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More recently, soybean croppers were angered by the financial support lent to Argentina, which went on to ship large quantities of its own soybeans to China.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The representatives argued that bad actors are unfairly driving down prices and shifting the tax burden to manufacturers and cultivators who are trying to follow the rules.—
Christopher Osher,
ProPublica,
14 Apr. 2026
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In nature, this process typically occurs via fire, whereas cultivators often use acid or physical scarring.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
25 Mar. 2026
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At the same time, planters might order perkenslaven to grow vegetables and other produce for their own households and businesses, rather than cultivate nutmeg as the VOC intended.—
H.M.A. Leow,
JSTOR Daily,
14 May 2026
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Flowers that tumble gracefully over the sides can help to soften the edge of planters.—
Gemma Johnstone,
The Spruce,
14 May 2026
Noun
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America has largely been out of tune regarding that refrain, but its greatest defenders of democracy and its tillers for a better world have not.—
Ken Makin,
Christian Science Monitor,
18 May 2025
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Elsewhere in Kigali, a group of young agronomists are training farmers to adopt technologies such as hydroponics to maximize productivity, using water instead of soil.—
Evelyne Musambi,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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Elsewhere in Kigali, a group of young agronomists are training farmers to adopt technologies such as hydroponics to maximize productivity, using water instead of soil.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Crofters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crofters. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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