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...Once hunted to extinction for the quality of their fur, they are now thriving....
...Nightingales lend a chorus as tawny owls “twit” and “twoo” across the valley....
...The cedar enzyme baths and Japanese Zen Gardens there are divine. We hope visitors to Sonoma County will stay with us....
...There are firs that whisper of wardrobes, fur coats and lampposts....
...As the makers put it, in a play on George Orwell’s Animal Farm, “All apes are dope but some are rarer than others.”...
...pile of juicy wood-roasted chicken from the nearby Snowdance farm....
...“There was another guy at Cedars-Sinai across town,” he admits. “But at UCLA, I was patient number one.”...
...resort with organic vegetable gardens and a working camel farm: a first for Israel, possibly for the world....
...A few years later, the American chef Dan Barber, pioneer of the farm-to-table movement, opened a pop-up restaurant called Wasted in central London....
...Four Indian tents occupy the valley bowl, the canvas shaded by olives....
...I was staying at the Wild Bear Lodge, six wooden cabins by the foaming Lardeau river at the bottom of a steep valley, about an hour’s drive from Kaslo, the nearest small town....
...They were the first prosecco vines ever attempted in Australia, and their success quickly inspired other tobacco-farmers-turned-winemakers in the King Valley....
...Wading in the shallow water, we sat on a fallen tree trunk in the shade of overhanging cedar and birch trees....
...Aynhoe gets deer on its beautiful park, Graham can farm to the highest standards and restaurant goers can thrill to a luxurious meal....
...Just up the valley from there is Tetnuldi, a tiny ski area whose lifts opened in 2016....
...Half a century later, Foslien, who grew up on a farm and started wearing black at the age of three, is still the cool girl – but has relocated....
...It was a dreamy place, an old wooden farm building with the date of construction carved into a beam — 1721....
...The stone came from a local quarry, the original roof was cedar and the windows imported from England....
...To the west, across the winding Wye River valley, rolling hills covered in a patchwork quilt of woods, grassland and green fields unspooled to the distant horizon....
...Through a pindrop-quiet, pristine white valley, we have snowshoed our way to a rare refreshment: Japanese maple sap....
...Vienna by Salvador Dalí, which sold astonishing animal masks, and had them imported so that his waiters could wear them, or that Elsa Maxwell donned a beard and turned the Waldorf Astoria ballroom into a farm...
...It’s called Tswalu Kalahari Reserve and it was created by the late Stephen Boler out of what were essentially arid, subsistence farms....
...A phone call from the local tourist office sees us heading off for Tribu Paladje in Tiendanite, 45 minutes up a valley thick with bamboo....
...“They’re smart, waiting for those guys to knock off and go home,” said Thomas, pointing to a salmon farm nearby. “Then it’s a free feed.”...
...Many of the chalets feature wood-fired hot tubs with views over the valley below....
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