The 176-acre (71-hectare) plot looks set to put the Garden of Eden to shame, its copious fields planted with 7,000 trees – cherries, plums, apricots, persimmons, and of course, apples – all co-ordinated by none other than Apple's "Senior Arborist", David Muffly.
But what began as an ethnographic database to track local tribes evolved into a $600 million network of teams embedded with the infantry to help commanders decipher rural Afghan culture by conducting copious field interviews.
Mr. Anderson unearthed copious photographs of oil fields in early-20th-century California.
By contrast modern, energy-intensive, heavily subsidised monoculture – single crops grown in huge fields using copious chemicals and heavy machinery – looks unstable, and increasingly unsustainable.
Crennel immediately deflected the credit to his players, but for a team trying to emerge from a chaotic season — on the field, there were copious injuries and wildly inconsistent play; off the field, a deep alienation between Haley and General Manager Scott Pioli — RAC, it turned out, was the rock, providing badly needed steadiness and optimism.
Though some argue oil companies should fork out for decommissioning from their copious profits, Britain's remaining fields are pricey to develop and compete for investment with richer reserves elsewhere.
When his father was alive, he said, the rice harvest from their fields was so copious that the leftover straw covered more than a hectare, about three acres, of land.
Inside this shell, there is a bubble of plasma consisting of very hot and energetic electrons and magnetic fields, which produce copious amounts of X-ray light.
He also ordered them into the field to make copious notes, chart maps, record contemporary life, gather artifacts and natural specimens and, above all, document the ancient temples and monuments, one hieroglyph at a time it seemed.
At Sullivan's Island near Charleston, the hurricane beached several vessels, and from Charleston to Georgetown, intense gusts and copious rainfall ruined cotton and rice fields in low-lying regions.
I watched, fascinated, as contestants of various shapes and sizes stripped down to leather trousers in an open field and began pouring copious quantities of local golden olive oil over themselves.
