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...It told the life story of an Indiana orphan of that name who scrambles out of Depression-era hardship and makes a success of an arable farm over the subsequent decades....
...While the farm sells several varieties of oysters, I go for the flagship Island Creek Oyster....
...Known as the land of mimosa, it’s an area that’s been populated by acacia farms for generations, and it instantly conjures their distinctively heady scent....
...The Pig on the Farm is five miles outside Stratford-upon-Avon, with 35 rooms spread between a 16th-century manor house and its surrounding farm buildings, set among 53 acres of pasture and arable land....
...Ah, mimosa – it’s a shot of vitamin D for the soul....
...The farm itself, just outside Petaluma, is lovely, the locus of tastings and live events....
...farm in Australia....
...The menu focuses closely on seafood from the heritage coast, with sublime oysters – grown by Bill Pinney at Butley Creek – lobster bisque and roast fillet of halibut with champagne and Avruga caviar sauce...
...On the banks you’ll find peanut, aubergine and pumpkin farms – beyond them, in the forests, monkeys, bears and iguana hide....
...If, like me, you enjoyed HTSI’s recent article on mimosa and how to eat it, you will find seeds at Plant World of an easily germinated mimosa, Acacia dealbata, for £2.75 a packet....
...The smooth concrete trail turns to gravel at the Banyule Tennis Club, where you should turn right and pass the Banyule Cattleyards and its open-air display of 19th-century farm equipment....
...The organisation’s motto is “Farm like the world depends on it”....
...In Goose Creek, South Carolina, Nexans has revamped its factory to help supply the growing demand for high-voltage cables for offshore wind farms in the US, one part of wider investment plans....
...Richard Carty was managing director of Morgan Stanley Principal Strategies and CEO of Bonanza Creek Energy....
...“Mimosa and Cosmopolitan died in 2021. Bellini, who I had for 17 years, passed away in March. Those are his granddaughters. Spice died in June.” Absent today and rounding off the list is Sugar....
...The plant-based group, which generates about $340mn in sales from veggie burgers and similar products, is anchored by the Morningstar Farms brand....
...In one of the transactions, GAM’s funds lent around £110mn to Greensill, via a special-purpose vehicle called Laufer, named after a creek on the financier’s family watermelon farm in Australia....
...However, some of the finest scents I know are in city gardens, from mimosas in February, which are too tender for Sussex, to jasmine on high walls in Kensington in July....
...The trail stretches about 8.5 miles from a major campground, taking in wildflower meadows, fir, larch and ponderosa woods, and a few river and creek crossings en route....
...It is typical of his scientific, quality-driven approach that the house farms two similar parcels of vines, one organically, the other biodynamically, to allow blind comparisons of the different produce....
...Indjai, who according to a 2013 US indictment helped orchestrate a cocaine-for-arms deal with Colombia’s Farc rebel groups, now tends his rural cashew farm....
...Laufer, named after a creek on Greensill’s family farm, then sent on the funds to Greensill Capital....
...And then there is Triple Creek Ranch, hidden deep in the Bitterroot mountains 80 miles from the closest airport at Missoula....
...I concluded my return to a place I seemed to be seeing for the first time, like someone waking from a 10-year anaesthesia, by locating Chobham Farm on Angel Lane....
...In one case, the asset manager’s funds lent about £110mn to Greensill via a special-purpose vehicle called Laufer, named after a creek on the financier’s family watermelon farm in Australia....
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