gardening

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Recent Examples of gardening Now, just a year later, she’s opened both Nativo storefronts with a goal to bring the community together through coffee, educational native plant workshops, hands-on gardening events, pottery workshops and plant bingo nights. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Apr. 2026 The star also gets a rough ride from many of the elementary school interviewees that allows the unlikely gardening enthusiast to embrace his more familiar manchild. Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 22 Apr. 2026 Wooden ladder planters with zinc troughs provide an easy way to achieve vertical gardening in small spaces such as patios. Midwest Living, 22 Apr. 2026 Candidates should possess a history of volunteering, a desire to teach gardening skills to others. Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado april 22, Sacbee.com, 22 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for gardening
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Noun
  • Markis Hill is a Johnson County, Kansas State University Extension horticulture agent.
    Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Garden Works, about 30 miles northwest of downtown Detroit, is the brainchild of veteran landscape and garden designer Deborah Silver, who grafts fine art and style onto the world of horticulture.
    Teresa Woodard, Midwest Living, 10 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In this case, the money is generated entirely by the licensed cannabis industry — from retail taxes of up to 25%, and license fees reaching $60,000 every two years for a dispensary, and $100,000 every two years for a full-size cultivation license.
    Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The findings suggest silk’s impacts are concentrated earlier in the supply chain than previously assumed—particularly in mulberry cultivation and silkworm rearing.
    Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 13 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In 2018, Wanetsha Mosinyi joined De Beers as the social impact and sustainability lead at De Beers Group; he is based in Gaborone, Botswana, where he was born and grew up in a farming community.
    Laurie Brookins, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The roughly two-acre park would be the first to directly highlight the Dust Bowl and migrant farming camps of the Great Depression, state officials said.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • This pattern isn’t unique to bats, the authors suggested, and likely applies to biodiversity loss and its impacts on agriculture broadly.
    Leah Campbell, Hartford Courant, 11 Apr. 2026
  • For a state like Illinois — a global hub for manufacturing and agriculture — these federal trade wars act as a direct anchor on our economy.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Every year, hundreds of thousands of foreign laborers are drawn to America by the promise of steady, seasonal farmwork through the H-2A program.
    Max Blau, ProPublica, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The most popular images depicting families are centered around nature and farmwork, leaving out indoor bonding activities like sharing meals, getting ready for work and school, playing games and shopping.
    William Jones, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Additionally, 57 percent of acreage uses no-till or conservation tillage, minimizing soil disturbance to reduce erosion, improve water infiltration and lower fuel use.
    SJ Studio, Footwear News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Many of the dispossessed took to the woods and subsisted by slash-and-burn tillage, while others immigrated to Manchuria and Japan in search of jobs; the majority of Korean residents now in those areas are their descendants.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Mar. 2026

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“Gardening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gardening. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.

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