Mayor Xue's solution was to create bigger farms out of unwanted land.

In fact, most of those resources had been spent on creating the power plants and underground farms.

The point is that the impetus to drain the Everglades came from politicians and land developers eager to create farms.

By 1823, the Wright family had created several lucrative farms.

Railroads opened the West, creating farms, towns and markets where none had existed.

They reclaimed derelict parks and created farms out of what once was paved.

The Homestead Act limited the land an individual could own to in order to create small farms.

Irrigation from the project would create farms out of the desert.

The invention of polished stone axes was a major advance because it allowed forest clearance on a large scale to create farms.

Into the late 17th century, however, farmers in the Caribbean islands had the same ideas of creating large farms with the use of slaves.