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...She dismantled it and moved in 1955, aged 83, to Garland Farm, where she devised a single-storey house with a half-acre garden for the months she would spend on Mount Desert....
...Cider-apple grower Bob Wadey farms 42,000 trees on 167 acres in Somerset, producing 2,000-3,000 tonnes of apples a year that are sold to Showerings cider....
...“We offer houses carefully positioned around protected trees to ensure every home provides the maximum seclusion, making five acres feel like 500 by clever screening.”...
...A warm midsummer sun shone throughout the festival, providing a karmic see-saw of good vibes and bad sunburn for the 210,000 people present on the vast 900-acre space....
...Her curiosity has roamed freely, from her epic saga about a farm in Iowa (the Pulitzer-winning A Thousand Acres, 1991), to comic novels set in academia (Moo, 1995), young adult novels, short stories, a biography...
...“Developers want to build all of the housing down here because it is where they make the money,” said MacCleary, whose council in Lewes is reviewing a proposal for a new town of 3,000 homes on 550 acres...
...In 2014, the artist Fritz Haeg sold his Modernist-style home in Joshua Tree, California, and bought Salmon Creek Farm, a 33-acre plot surrounded by forest in Albion, 150 miles north of San Francisco....
...In a way it was a rather pleasant period, except I had concerns about the business and how we organise ourselves and how we could survive.”...
...Beyond this nucleus, Rancho Santana spooled out into 2,700 acres of rugged coastline, forest and farmland....
...The remote island location — it is accessible only by boat and air — makes for pleasant summer temperatures, and beautiful beaches add to the appeal....
...Now, 23 years later, he is responsible for the management of tenanted cottages, an arable farm, a herd of grass-reared beef cattle, 500 acres of semi-ancient woodland — and, increasingly, wildlife — on behalf...
...Last year its purchase of Thorneythwaite, a sheep farm in an idyllic Cumbrian valley, prompted outcry, not simply because its offer of £950,000 for the 303 acres of land was £200,000 more than the guide...
...The launch, from an 8,000-acre sheep and cattle farm on New Zealand’s North Island, marks a breakthrough in one of the hottest sectors of the space industry- the race by private companies to develop lower...
...“I lived on a 50-acre farm with nearly two dozen servants,” Suleman Nagdi, a Muslim from Rhodesia, recalls. “Suddenly I find myself in a two-up, two-down here.”...
...Wendell Shauman, 70, who farms 1,000 acres of corn and soyabeans near the Mississippi river in western Illinois, says he would prefer for the mega deals not to go ahead....
...Since 2003 the PHS has turned 8,000 vacant lots into public parks — a total of 250 acres — and planted more than half a million trees....
...The ruin is now surrounded by acres of rolling grass that end in vertiginous cliffs overlooking the Atlantic....
...More hopeful is the prospect of “cluster farms”....
...Who Mallorca Sotheby’s International Realty, mallorca-sothebysrealty.com, tel:+34 971 721 000 … Stone Bridge Farms, 125 Sherman Lane, New York, US, $13.5m Where In Northumberland, upstate New York, 15...
...In total, the company expects it to be sowed across 250,000 acres – a sliver of the 92m acres to be planted....
...House prices are also of greater economic and political concern than those for farm produce....
...But summer — with its 19 or so hours of sunshine and a sea warmed by the Gulf Stream to be surprisingly warm for northern Europe — is especially pleasant for visitors to Oslo....
...Shellproof, the appropriately named Aim-quoted cash shell, issued 5.2m shares at 54p each and paid £7m to take the name and the land of Gusbourne Estates, a 350-acre farm in Kent....
...Mention England’s “green and pleasant land”, and an image of lush pastures and rolling fields springs to mind....
...It is not always pleasant work. “I sometimes receive threats,” Selva told me when we met last November....
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