The Breiers arrived at their home, a dome-shaped structure on three acres, surrounded by the lime orchard, a vegetable garden and coffee trees.
Mrs. Breier, a deeply tanned beauty with snow white hair, runs a lime orchard that supplies local bars and restaurants, while her husband, as she says, "is on his computer all day".
"In the U.S. you can work," said Leno Miranda, 34, as he sat atop a John Deere tractor plowing in a lush lime orchard outside town.
Stuck in lime in the second orchard were five collared flycatchers, a house sparrow, and a spotted flycatcher (formerly widespread, now becoming rare in much of northern Europe), as well as three more blackcaps.
Clocking in at a mere 9% alcohol, the gorgeous ripe orchard fruit, mandarin and lime is tempered by salty mineral freshness, the sweetness providing a cushion for the flash of needle-point acidity.
Their suitability for cultivation is limited to acid-tolerant crops and orchards, provided that sufficient lime and fertilizer are applied.
For dessert, there are pies from Lyman Orchards (in Middlefield): key lime and pecan were better than the strawberry.
No memorials attest to the horrors that took place here six decades ago, just a small orchard of banana plants and lime trees wedged between the walled compounds of well-to-do families.
The $50 farm-to-table tour lets guests pick fruits and vegetables from the orchard and organic garden, sniff kaffir lime and bay leaves, and figure out which herbs go best with which wines.
The narrow space is covered with clothes from floor to ceiling like an old Italian men's store on Orchard Street, except that instead of lime green Sopranos suits, it's dripping with denim.
Later, Alexander the Great sent home specimens from his wars in north Africa and the east, and successive armies transported plants into their new territories: the Romans sowing wheat, corn, barley and olives to feed their armies; Muslims spreading orchard fruits like sour oranges, lemons, limes and apricots, and showy flowers – most famously at the Alhambra palace in the Spanish city Granada.
