This two-story brick farmhouse is on a 25-acre property in Kent, a county known as the Garden of England because of its plentiful fruit orchards and rich soil traditionally valued for cultivating hops.
Also, unlike many equatorial countries, Colombia also has plentiful water resources and rich soil, as well as an abundance of cheap labor, a weak exchange rate, and an export-friendly government.
The construction of temporary causeways using the suitable and plentiful floodplain soils would have allowed a direct route across the floodplains to the San Lorenzo Plateau.
Jose Altimira, a friar, chose the area for habitation because it had fertile soil, plentiful game and an ideal climate.
The United Kingdom is a good place to practise forestry, because the British Isles are ideal for tree growth, thanks to their mild winters, plentiful rainfall, fertile soil and hill-sheltered topography.
By the President of the United States of America Nearly half a century ago, President Dwight Eisenhower proclaimed Thanksgiving as a time when Americans should celebrate "the plentiful yield of our soil... the beauty of our land... the preservation of those ideals of liberty and justice that form the basis of our national life and the hope of international peace".
Fertile soil and plentiful water drew people to the area by the thousands.
Also important, says Mr Thanh, was Vietnam's increasingly open trade policy.None of this would have happened had Vietnam not had fertile soil and plentiful rains, with large tracts of coastal plain and river deltas ideal for cultivation.
A former British colony once called the Pearl of Africa for its fertile soil and plentiful rains, Uganda became a byword for African horrors during the 1971-79 dictatofshIdi Amini Amin, whose regime killed up to 500,000 opponents and expelled 70,000 people of Asian origin.
