Hints and tips:
...on Sargent’s own farm....
...As we trample down the bumpy farm track that leads into the village of Babzur, we pass a group of women sitting around a fire shaded by a tin-roofed pergola....
...Entering the courtyard at Candili today, one still sees the footprint of that farm....
...One of my guides, Michael Moschos, owns and directs a farm of fine walnuts near the coastline at Artemision....
...Olsen lives nearby, beside an organic farm with rare breeds of Norwegian cattle, poultry and sheep....
...“A lot of our acreage is horse pastures but there was an area of pine trees where we never walked that was unused and forgotten — it has become this magical wonderland now.”...
...Works include her banned Film No 4 (Bottoms) — a visual string of naked backsides — alongside music and interactive installations such as “Wish Tree”, to which visitors can contribute their personal wishes...
...Umbrella pines leaned in over the road. Under a carob tree, sheltering from the midday sun, stood a donkey and its newborn, both heads down and motionless....
...Finally, we made it down into the forest of larch and pine, and to Fiery, the first hamlet of the day....
...There are beautiful walks from the door, but come in the first three weeks of April and you can take part in “Lambing Live”, helping the farm team in the lambing shed....
...One long dinner can happily segue into an idyllic night in one of the former farm buildings, many with beds raised on mezzanine levels in the eaves....
...the heady pine forests of Portugal’s Atlantic coast....
...Photosynthesis, parallelograms, Greek myths, the wheat yield of the prairie farms; sadly they have dimmed a bit....
...Not only are plantations becoming rivals to traditional farms, but planting one variety of tree in Scotland or the US is a poor substitute for retaining others elsewhere....
...He also has to complete a couple of projects, including his Queen’s Green Canopy, a tree-planting endeavour....
...farm that doesn’t use pesticides....
...“I don’t know if it’s true that, as you read in books, in olden days a monkey that left Rome jumping from tree to tree could reach Spain without touching the ground,” observes the book’s narrator....
...Along with the pine and Chinese plum tree, it is one of the “three friends of winter”, hardy plants that are symbols of resilience and noble character....
...A soft breeze, pushing in from the sea to fan their hilltop garden, brings with it Mediterranean scents of rosemary and pine....
...Here in Tuscany, you can kayak and paddle-board on a private lake, learn to make rustic cheeses in an adjoining farm, or be pummelled by a masseur in the wellness centre....
...The farm keeps hens, sheep and goats, horses and donkeys, and makes its own beer and cider. At the edge of the property, Portuguese black pigs snuffle in their enclosure under the pine trees....
...It’s also beautiful at Christmas with the tree fully decorated....
...Elsewhere, the faded letters on a rough-hewn sign nailed to a tree inform you of a “Dead End”. There is much more to discover. It’s more than the work of a single day, for most people....
...Private paths off the lawns of the terraced rear garden facilitate walks through birch and pine tree woods....
..., ‘If you move that tree, I’ll kill you.’...
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