OUTDOOR SPACE: The lot is just over three acres, mostly cleared, with native-grass pasture to the east, old-growth cottonwoods to the west, a small apple and plum orchard and beds planted with tulips and lilacs.
(Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times) Honduran Alejandro Maldonado, 47, who was deported after working four years at an apple orchard in Alexandria, Va., beds down in a graveyard in Nogales, Mexico, in 2011.
One of the rooms is adorned with wall paintings representing an enchanted garden; beyond a trellis are orchards and flower beds, in which birds and insects perch among the foliage.
There's a 2,000-square-foot 2,000-square-foot 2,000-square-footicken coop, four creeks, hiking bluffs and access to a 50-foot waterfall in a box canyon.
If you want to be within walking distance of the museums, then you can bed down at the Orchards, an efficient, comfortable hotel with 49 rooms (222 Adams Road, (800) 225-1517; $195-$195-$275
She points out their pigs, Middle Whites and Large Blacks, and her favourite Muscovy ducks, as well as the vegetable beds and the fledgling orchard planted with 30 different types of tree.
For seven years, she and her husband ran a farm and orchard in Templeton, Calif., along with a busy bed and breakfast.
Our forage tour began by following our guide, a longhaired former forester named Ancil, through orchards and raised garden beds.
Praising the kibbutz gardens, the fruits of his labor, she said that, thanks to him, they lived in a green meadow, in the shade of blossoming orchards, among blooming flower beds.
As the beds and orchards grew to 8 acressurrounded by 200 acres of vineyards producing Chenin Blanc, Shiraz, and Viognierthe propertys purpose expanded as well.
