However, many of them are unprepared for the level of care such large lawns require, and end up with small gardens near the house, and overgrown acreage further away.
It would be easy not to have noticed, given that much of that acreage is tucked away in Maine.
Orville Silvera, the head of an association that represents about 2,000 marijuana growers and was formed with the government's blessing, worries that big money will get concessions for huge amounts of acreage, boxing out the smaller farmers toiling away on a few acres.
Whats more, in the oil-rich Eagle Ford and Permian Basin acreage, BHP can give away the gas and still make good profits on the oil.
First acreages were simply whittled away; then came "allotment," in which tracts were allotted to individual tribal members, and many ended up sold off to non-Indians.
A running gag in his early days at St Kilda was that when Lockett moved away from the acreage in Cranbourne that housed his beloved greyhounds, sales at local fast food outlets plummeted.
So I'll just get rich and I'll move away, find my acreage back in Iowa or Nebraska or Kansas or whatever, and live my life accordingly".
Governor Whitman signed bills last week authorizing the preservation of farmland in five counties that should bring the total farm acreage to about 81,000 acres locked away as open space.
He found himself studying the out-of-town property listings in the Sunday Times, lingering over depictions of bucolic settings that, with their wooded acreage and shimmering ponds, seemed a world away from West End Avenue.
