horticulture

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Recent Examples of horticulture The club has awarded over $1 million in grants to support local horticulture projects in San Diego County. News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025 The Nakai family brings a century of knowledge and skill to its horticulture work, said Russell Akiyama, a third- generation owner of the nearby Sunflower Farms Nursery in Torrance. Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2025 Tim Johnson is senior director of horticulture at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025 Markis Hill is a horticulture agent with Kansas State University Research and Extension. Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 28 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for horticulture
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horticulture
Noun
  • University of Maryland Extension’s Home and Garden Information Center offers free gardening and pest information at extension.umd.edu/hgic.
    Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 1 May 2025
  • Some of the Mother's Day activities on this list involve the outdoors (like gardening), others take place inside the house (such as looking through old photo albums), and a few might require a little trip around town.
    Laura Broadwell, Parents, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Cristina LaRue covers agriculture for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
    Cristina LaRue, Arkansas Online, 2 May 2025
  • The plant had last been spotted decades earlier, growing by a highway in the town of Corrigin in Western Australia’s wheat belt, where most land has been cleared for agriculture.
    Katarina Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • This timeline indicates that grape cultivation in Italy likely started during the Late Bronze Age.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Conclusion The cannabis industry is undergoing a green revolution, with a growing emphasis on sustainability and organic cultivation.
    Matt Rozo, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In Maryland, 26 Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities programs were operating, dealing with 50 commodities and 88 farming practices, according to the USDA.
    Karl Blankenship, Baltimore Sun, 26 Apr. 2025
  • In just a few decades, France’s farming population wentfrom 7 million in 1946 to fewer than 3 million in 1974.
    Made by History, Time, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Avoid tillage entirely to preserve soil microbiota.
    Christopher Marquis, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • But tillage can also release carbon dioxide stored in the soil and harm overall soil health, so regenerative farmers swear against it.
    Kenny Torrella, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Noun
  • The pilot spanned three-years and was developed with local partners in India, where field executives (often agronomy graduates from local universities) worked with farmers throughout the cotton growing season.
    Brooke Roberts-Islam, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The filing also details the acquisition of West Central Ag Services, expanding CHS's grain and agronomy platforms in west-central Minnesota and eastern North Dakota.
    Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2025

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“Horticulture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horticulture. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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