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(pl.) aboiteaux A sluice or conduit built beneath a coastal dike, with a hinged gate or a one-way valve that closes during high tide, preventing salt water from flowing into the sluice and flooding the land behind the dike, but remains open during low tide, allowing fresh water precipitation and irrigation runoff to drain from the land into the sea; or a method of land reclamation which relies ...
Forage may refer to: Forage, plant material (mainly plant leaves and stems) eaten by grazing livestock; Forage (honey bee), bees' food supply consisting of nectar and ...
The vegetation of tended pasture, forage, consists mainly of grasses, with an interspersion of legumes and other forbs (non-grass herbaceous plants). Pasture is typically grazed throughout the summer, in contrast to meadow which is ungrazed or used for grazing only after being mown to make hay for animal fodder. [2]
In British Columbia, Canada, 41 percent of the provincial Agricultural Land Reserve area is unsuitable for the production of cultivated crops, but is suitable for uncultivated production of forage usable by grazing livestock. [10] Similar examples can be found in many rangeland areas elsewhere.
The word forb is derived from Greek phorbḗ (φορβή) 'pasture; fodder'. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Hellenic spelling phorb is sometimes used, and in older usage this sometimes includes graminids and other plants currently not regarded as forbs.
A mother who swapped city life for a rural farm now forages food, has homegrown supplies to last six months and paid for her mortgage by selling alpaca poo. Karee Upendo, 35, and her husband ...
Sorghum grown as forage crop.. Forage is a plant material (mainly plant leaves and stems) eaten by grazing livestock. [1] Historically, the term forage has meant only plants eaten by the animals directly as pasture, crop residue, or immature cereal crops, but it is also used more loosely to include similar plants cut for fodder and carried to the animals, especially as hay or silage.
The word "freegan" is a portmanteau of "free" and "vegan". [2] While vegans avoid buying, consuming, using, and wearing animal products as an act of protest against animal exploitation, freegans—at least in theory—avoid buying anything as an act of protest against the food system in general.