Lakes, clear skies, trees, bountiful vegetable gardens, and grass forever, encircled by the Sayan Mountains.
The bountiful spread included warm vegetable frittata and breads, and coffee, all made.
I'm grateful for the honeybees and other pollinators that play an essential role in providing a bountiful harvest of fruits and vegetables.
It does not get much fresher than housemade breads, soups, dressings and desserts, along with a bountiful crop of fresh from the garden fruits and vegetables.
Aisles snaking between the various shops and counters lead to bountiful displays of cakes, shiny unblemished fruits, packages of pickled vegetables and marbled cuts of marbled wagyu beef.
I had read about this method in "Weedless Gardening," by Lee Reich, a soil scientist in New Paltz, N.Y., and in the spring of 2009 had visited his bountiful gardens, which are never tilled and produce abundant fruit and vegetables with very few weeds.
There are no views of the mighty Hudson, or of the glittering necklace that is the Tappan Zee Bridge, and you'll have to sit cheek-by-jowl with other diners, but the dishes that emerge from O Lar's wood-fired oven — bountiful pizzas, beautifully charred baby chicken with a brood of root vegetables, a warm chocolate cake cooled down with black-pepper gelato — are hearty, wholesome and spirited.
In generations past, agriculturalists nurtured bountiful orchards of oranges, lemons, apricots, and peaches, planted broad fields of vegetables, and raised dairy cattle.
"They have to make it worth our while," said John Hawk, who farms 1,800 acres of vegetables and hay in the Imperial Valley, a desert land made bountiful by water appropriated from the Colorado.
You're invited to visit for a viewing: your mind begins to turn towards thoughts of orderly allotment plots, bountiful harvests, must-have items to buy and all the fruit and vegetables you are going to grow.
As will all fruit and vegetable planting, having nutrient rich soil is necessary for a bountiful harvest.
