New hybrids have increased farm yields to about 180 bushels per acre. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A cranberry bog under study contained 34.5 pounds to the acre. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“They say you only need a hundred pounds per acre. I’m putting on closer to one hundred eighty,” Naylor explained to me, a bit sheepishly. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

As maize swept in, Indians burned and cleared thousands of acres of land, mainly in river valleys. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After that he pulled himself together, and when the chance came along to lease and sharecrop a hundred acres from a big strawberry grower up north in Santa Clara Valley he took it. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to re­quire a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaller as I grew older, train included. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were groves of trees, a winding stream, acres of strawberries spread out under the blue sky. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

On the plantation, she was not free, but she moved unrestricted on its acres, tasting the air and tracing the summer stars. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Tiwanaku let the water through, but took enough to irrigate more than seven hundred acres of terraces. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The houses began after that—large, handsome, widely spaced, each set on its own six or seven acres of land. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In 1870, the Osage—expelled from their lodges, their graves plundered—agreed to sell their Kansas lands to settlers for $1.25 an acre. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We then crossed Suey Road, which marked the end of the city limits and the beginning of hundreds of acres of recently planted lettuce and carrots. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It sat back fifty yards from the road on three acres of alfalfa, strawberries, raspberries, and orderly vegetable gardens. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Why Samuel left the stone house and the green acres of his ancestors I do not know. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Congratulations, Tom. You are now the proud owner of three hundred twenty Montana acres. Good luck.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A large sliding glass door opened into a semicircular terrace that overlooked two acres of backyard and rows of cherry trees. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Agriculture Department’s mass control program, on the other hand, cost about $3.50 per acre — the most expensive, the most damaging, and the least effective program of all. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Three hundred acres—there must be a ton of hiding places on this farm. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

They stuck up at intervals in every direction, strangely sharpening the loneliness and desolation, sometimes the only sign of human presence in an acre or two of sand. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marita doesn’t need a brand-new school with acres of playing fields and gleaming facilities. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

After all, if you already have the tractor and machinery, it doesn’t cost much more to farm another 100 acres, or another 500. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Daddy, I do want something. I want to know how many square feet in an acre.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

His wife, too, came from old island people—the Varigs, Art remembered, hay farmers and shake cutters with a few stump acres on Cattle Point—and her father had passed away not so long ago. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the wide level acres of the valley the topsoil lay deep and fertile. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like there were acres and acres of grass and a pond and wonderful shrubs. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was a dark, primal place, three acres of old forest un-touched for ten thousand years as the gloomy castle rose around it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Initially, they made ends meet in part by selling off plots of their twenty-six acres where they’d raised animals and had some orchards. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We had this house with a pool, almost an acre. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Wheelers’ home was on a hill on what must have been an acre of old farmland in the suburb of Weston, with a small creek running across the bottom. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Wari techniques had reclaimed more than a million acres of cropland from mountainsides that almost anywhere else would have been regarded as impossibly dry, steep, and cold. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I was in the midst of several thousand acres of exquisitely pretty woodlands shared jointly by Worthington State Forest and the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were many acres of farm and woodland, and a number of cottages for the staff. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The federation president gave Bobby a deed for more than an acre of land in Elista, his capital city. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was not room for the wheat in that field, so I planted it—about a half acre—in the far field beyond the pond. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She turned right, drove past the parade grounds with its flagpole, and parked her car near a massive, almost windowless building made of concrete and yellow bricks that covered almost ten acres of ground. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That farm is just a small part of an eighty-million-plus- acre corn lawn rolling across the continent. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The nine hundred remaining acres were the core of the original Sanchez grant, and the best of it too. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Charles cleared land, built up his walls, improved his drainage, and added a hundred acres to the farm. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or consider the grassy balds—treeless, meadowy expanses of mountaintop, up to 250 acres in extent, which are quite unique to the southern Appalachians. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Past the orchards in the middle of the estate was a garden that must have covered nearly ten acres. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ah could throw ten acres of it over de fence every day and never look back to see where it fell. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Indeed, thousands of squatters had already claimed nearly a million acres of land west of the mountains. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I arrived at the Trappist monastery with its two thousand acres of wood and farmlands and entered the courtyard as the monks were chanting Vespers. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

One-third of the landscape of the lower forty-eight states is covered in trees—728 million acres in all. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Off the starboard side, now about a hundred yards away, was a small, uninhabited island no more than five acres. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

It was the place Dicey wanted, the big house, the acres of farmland, the barn, the water and the boat. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bulk of this—191 million acres, spread over 155 parcels of land—is held by the U.S. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

His grandmother’s house was a rambling gray stone mansion on twelve acres in North Vancouver. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Thank goodness Jamie thought so clearly so fast, and thank goodness for those twenty acres of floor space. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the actual resort, I’m picturing a place along the lines of Middle Earth, but what I find is acres of thin brown trees and ruins. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“So in other words Mr. Miyamoto left your residence on the ninth having heard from your husband there was at least a possibility your husband would sell the seven acres to him.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The river tore the edges of the farm lands and washed whole acres down; it toppled barns and houses into itself, to go floating and bobbing away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Out of an acre of worn silk emerged a red, red comrade. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the street from the school stretched acres of cotton fields, the raw material for Monroe’s mill and the source of income for many county residents. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There are acres of open cattle range and few houses or busy streets where migrants can hide. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A girl could get lost on twenty-eight acres in a little town like this. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sing Sing sprawls over fifty-five acres, most of it rocky hillside. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had thought of the farm as just the hundred acres of pasture. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I resolved then and there that I would crawl on my hands and knees across our six hundred acres with a magnifying glass if that’s what it took, for as long as it took. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He had worked the railroads for fifteen years, making enough money to build his wife a house on a nice property of a hundred acres of land. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I cleaned acres of glass shelving, changing my tempo now to work faster, holding every nuance of reality within the focus of my consciousness. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the Osage bought the territory for seventy cents per acre and, in the early 1870s, began their exodus. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The snowfall obliterated the borders between the fields and made Kabuo Miyamoto’s long- cherished seven acres indistinguishable from the land that surrounded them. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was alarmed to see, beyond the canal, the entire stretch of land called Port Meadow, acres of open ground, invisible under a gray and rain-swept wilderness of water. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The Aberdeen house sat on two acres of land. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Calamity followed Finn as he weeded and watered their puny half acre of new vegetables—asparagus, kale, onion, beans, carrots, spinach, beets, broccoli, tomatoes. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“So you were not aware of any claim, then, that the Miyamotos might have had to any seven of your newly purchased thirty acres?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He’d never realized it before, but the land there sloped away from his family’s house, so he had a clear view of acres and acres that once had been covered with trees. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The hedges and the acres and acres of lawn were covered in a network of spider web that caught the dew in beads so that it glistened white as frost. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Figured he might get a good two acres 'thout your noticing it.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The theater is set among hundreds of acres of beautifully maintained parkland with lakes and ponds. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Sits on a good bit of acres that used to be a whole lot more. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Assuming the crop came on strong, I couldn’t harvest forty acres on my own. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

We still had to drive to Big Ma’s small yellow house that stood on about an acre of land, just off the edge of Prattville proper in Autauga County. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Stretching over more than three hundred acres, the private estate was protected by guards and stone walls. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Walt Disney bought 160 acres of orange groves just a few miles from Carl’s Drive-In Barbeque, chopped down the trees, and started to build Disneyland. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

He stumbled upon a magnificent ranch sprawling over seventeen thousand acres of California’s remote redwood country, 150 miles north of San Francisco, near a tiny lumber village called Willits. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout much of the Midwest thousands of acres of fine orchards were destroyed by insects now impervious to spraying. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

With fourteen thousand arid acres to sell, truth in advertising was not something to dwell over. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early 1600s, the British seized a half-million acres from Irish farmers, drove them from their lands, and opened those lands to settlers who would be under English protection. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Japanese man had asked about the land then, and asserted his wish to buy the seven acres his family had once held. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It is the twelfth smallest state, but it has more uninhabited forest—ten million acres—than any other state but Alaska. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that what Ole told you? He didn’t know—is that it? Was I supposed to say, ‘Ole, there’s these folks made a illegal agreement with my husband hands over seven acres to them’? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Garland was so simple—seven acres of land containing exactly one house, one barn, a vegetable garden, fruit trees, a pickup truck, and only one other person. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The richest acre of Iowa soil could never feed thirty thousand hungry corn plants year after year without added fertilizer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Forest Service officials declared they had acted on advice that 1 pound of DDT to the acre was “safe.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

When plans were announced for spraying 3 million acres in 1957 opposition became even stronger. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

For five days the previous October the “power fire,” as it was called, had roared across these mountains, consuming seventeen thousand acres of pine and cedar. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Seven acres of unshaven men and brighteyed women in search of the perfect screwdriver, weed killer, volcanic gas grills. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He told the story, once again, of how they had been within one last payment of owning the seven acres outright. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Typically, they cover five to fifteen acres, but some encompass seven hundred or more. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Anaheim area alone boasted about 70,000 acres of Valencia oranges, as well as lemon groves and walnut groves. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

“He wants seven of Ole’s acres. He wants me to let Ole sell them to him. Or sell them to him myself. You know, step out of his way.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the first Europeans arrived in the New World, there were perhaps 950 million acres of woodland in what would become the lower forty-eight states. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Today it covers more acres of the country than any other living species, including human beings. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

From the trucks, the acres of cane are green and inviting. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked Joel how much food Polyface produces in a season, and he rattled off the following figures: It was hard to believe they got that much food from one hundred acres of grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I was getting ready to let five of them west acres go to weeds, you know, they’re so choresome to keep the thistle out of.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Along with yams, sugarcane, and potatoes, we grew cotton on forty acres. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right in front of her, out of the fog, the island materialized—-an acre of pine trees, boulders, and snow with a black sand beach: If the island had a name, she didn’t know it. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Working together all day, Saturday and Sunday, Roberto and I managed to finish an acre, for which we were paid sixteen dollars. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I was looking for something solid, as solid as 320 Montana acres. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

And the harvest was a big one—close to two hundred bushels per acre. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d lived in a small white house on an acre of land with many trees. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His farm, like about two-thirds of the farms in the state, occupied less than ten acres—unviably small by the standards of developed nations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I send more from where I am going. Make payment. Maybe payment is not enough, you still have seven acres strawberries this year. Then, December, there is one more payment. You see? One more.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Over the next two decades, the Osage were forced to cede nearly a hundred million acres of their ancestral land, ultimately finding refuge in a 50-by-125-mile area in southeastern Kansas. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In the midst of a few foreign acres teeming with more than two hundred people, he had succeeded in becoming a recluse. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Harry knew at a glance that this was the only real Muggle for several acres. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They had eighty acres and couldn’t make it either. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some was lost in gambling, some chipped off for taxes, and some acres torn off like coupons to buy luxuries—a horse, a diamond, or a pretty woman. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the desert, and nothing is out here but empty land and what looks like thousands of acres enclosed by a simple wooden fence. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In a later work, he announced that the number of worms to be found in an average acre of English country soil was 53,767. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

A half a mile east of it were hundreds of acres of strawberries cultivated by Japanese sharecroppers and harvested by people from the camp. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Tuttle hadn’t offered me a picking job since that time us boys pulled up an acre of his onion crop to dam the stream between his pasture and ours. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The spot she had chosen to spread her blanket was under a handsome black walnut that grew at the edge of the woods bordering the acres of cotton. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city had not developed along this part of the shore, but had grown northward along the inland river, leaving a few acres of woods untouched. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Chester had planted twenty acres in flax and harvested eighty bushels. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Your uncle tell you that you need to cultivate one-eighth of this claim? That’s forty acres.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

And you not going to have a governor’s mansion, or eight thousand acres of timber to sell. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They do all this on 100 acres of pasture mixed in with another 450 acres of forest. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I’ll leave the lad an acre in my will,” Buttercup’s father was fond of saying. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Across the Black Belt, more and more acres were converted to growing pine trees for paper mills and industrial uses. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"This fellow raises the grapes. He's got thousands of acres of them." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

And I took a bulldozer and cleared four acres and moved in more or less like I owned the place. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They had added more stock and a few more acres to crops. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is what happened in some of the western national forests a few years ago, when in 1956 the United States Forest Service sprayed some 885,000 acres of forested lands with DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Carl came from old-time island stock; his grandfather, Bavarian born, had established thirty acres of strawberry fields on prime growing land in Center Valley. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

One night, she recalled, thousands of acres of Hale’s land had been set on fire. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We can see two beds taking up all the space in the bedroom, a great acre of a bed and a smaller one near the window. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

There was a half acre of green corn that Mom had planted. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The New York Athletic Club’s facility there, completed in 1888, sprawled over thirty neatly manicured acres at the center of which stood a posh, sprawling clubhouse. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

One was an old hand-drawn affair tracing out an acre or two of land, and marked with the now outmoded pictographs of old China. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The old legend that “a pound of DDT to the acre is harmless” means nothing if spraying is repeated. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He lives here, on twenty-six acres, about a ten-minute drive from campus—in an underground house that he designed a few years ago. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

From the pond as I sat I could look down on the field of wheat, a darker green acre in the pasture that stretched toward the gap. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Some 60,000 acres of cotton were being grown under irrigation in the Gash Delta. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Charles and Marjorie Moss lived on a little more than ten acres of land with three fenced areas. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Okay. See these papers here? They say we can buy eighty acres that Mr. Blake has next to the McKenzie property we bought.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had purchased a small house there with a few acres of thick grass, and I was surprised to find it vacant. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The important thing, he would argue, is that behind every organic TV dinner or chicken stands acres of land that will no longer be doused with chemicals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

There are more infested acres in Louisiana now than when the program began.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I found I was standing before acres of ploughed earth. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's like they took the whole huge, black Sears Tower, broke it up into short chunks, painted it with friendlier suburban colors, and then spread it out over two hundred acres of farmland. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Speaking of gender issues, why did you ask your father about the number of square feet in an acre? Why not your mother?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Probably no other agricultural program has been carried out on so large a scale as the dusting and spraying of millions of acres of land in southern United States to control the fire ant. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Ant mounds on lawns or playgrounds may create a situation where children are likely to be stung, but this is hardly an excuse for drenching millions of acres with poisons. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He used his power and influence to protect and conserve 230 million acres of American forest, desert, and plains, including the Grand Canyon, Muir Woods, Yosemite, and the Painted Desert, to name a few. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Did your husband mention he’d gone out there? Did he tell you about his conversation with Mr. Jurgensen regarding the purchase of these seven acres?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They filled a grain sack with coins and bills, leased seven acres of stumps and vine maple, purchased a ploiv horse, and started clearing. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It took thousands of workers eight months to clear 1.8 billion tons of debris from the sixteen acres of the World Trade Center site in New York. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In spite of their minute size, the total weight of this host of bacteria in the top foot of a single acre of fertile soil may be as much as a thousand pounds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He would come home, have a quick supper, and head out with Trampita and me to our three acres, where we worked until dusk. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

We hove up onto shore just as the sun was dimming behind acres of gray clouds, perhaps an hour left until full dark. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And if Dino-land turns out to be a bust, guess who owns thirteen thousand acres of nothing? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“He leased ten acres of virgin woods and cleared it all,” said the men describing the beginning of Old Macon Dead’s farm. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

So if I put twenty acres into flax and twenty into wheat, that would be the needed forty acres. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

My father said, “George, when we planted these trees, we only had forty acres and most of it rock.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mains was the most distinctive building of the lot: it covered nearly an acre and a half and looked like it had been cobbled together from a number of smaller, mismatched buildings. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Catching an air current that took her up and over a mountain, she looked down on acres of open fields, meadows, and grassy clearings. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A million acres were treated the first year. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

No, it had never been very profitable, but the thirty acres had gotten them by for twenty-five years—better some years than others, she added: depended what the cannery was paying out. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There are carpenters’ shops, taxidermists’ studios, acres of shelves and specimen drawers, whole museums within the museum. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The bodies of only five diseased caterpillars provide enough virus to treat an acre of alfalfa. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Napoleon was thrilled, and he ordered the French to begin planting thousands of acres of beets. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I rented a bulldozer and cleared four acres of the small—if ancient—black spruce and set to work. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

With repeated spraying over the years the range between trees is from 26 to 60 pounds to the acre; under trees, up to 113 pounds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The Cartwright farm grew a lot of cotton: hundreds, maybe a thousand acres. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Osage prevailed upon the government to divide the land solely among members of the tribe, thereby increasing each individual’s allotment from 160 acres to 657 acres. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The difficulty in making final determinations is that there are often acres of room for interpretation. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The three acres consumed all our resources and time. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

About 240 million acres of America’s forests are owned by the government. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“They turn down the offer of hundreds of acres?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stretched out before her, acres of dead grapevines hung in rows on wooden lattices, like gnarled miniature skeletons. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Surrounding our yard lie ten thousand acres of Daddy’s cotton fields, the plants green and strong, tall as my waist. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As we drove past an acre of flattened land and the makings of a huge building, my breath caught. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

That gave Ole sixty-five acres in the middle of Center Valley. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lord Petyr's fa-ther had been the smallest of small lords, his grandfather a landless hedge knight; by birth, he held no more than a few stony acres on the windswept shore of the Fingers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

By 1938, the Reich Labor Service had turned so many acres of forests and swamps into useful land that it made up for nearly all the territory Germany had lost in the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

For that’s what a field of flax in bloom looks like: acres and acres of sea-blue flowers, rippling in the August winds like waves. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

In moonlight, two acres of coarse bent grass, undulant and ankle deep, tumbled and rough as a horse’s mane, appear like a bay of waves, all shadowy troughs and hollows. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger tractors and machines, chemical weed killers, and artificial fertilizer made it easier for one farmer to handle more acres. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Some farmers used as much as 200 pounds per acre; one, in an extraordinary excess of zeal, applied more than a quarter of a ton to the acre. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Cal said, “Next year my father is going to let me have an acre in the flat.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Corn has managed to become the most widely planted crop in America—more than 80 million acres of farmland are planted with corn every year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They decided to use Dr. Darwins money to buy the house and an additional eighteen acres. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were acres of tobacco, the plants heavy and green like some monstrous jungle weed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Just the journey, not our troubles. Sylvie laughed. “As freed slaves we were given forty acres and a mule. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe four acres? Okay”—she snapped open her laptop—“let’s see what’s available around here.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They entered a junkyard full of wrecked automobiles, acres of them. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The concentration used was one pound of active ingredient to the acre. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A single canal system could carry enough water to irrigate an estimated ten thousand acres. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the house there was a meadow of nearly an acre, carpeted in summer with sweet wild strawberries. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We left Santa Maria Valley, passing by acres and acres of strawberry, artichoke, and alfalfa fields. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Beyond the curtain wall were half a hundred acres of headland hard against the sky and the sea. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

All green, then specks, spots, square acres upon acres transform from green to brown. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

When elephants encounter the skeleton of an elephant out in the open, they methodically take up each of the bones and distribute them, in a ponderous ceremony, over neighboring acres. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we get the coupla acres I can let you tend the rabbits all right. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think...I thought...acres was men’s stuff.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, I’m not thinking of s-selling then. It was before . . . my stroke. I had a good farm, sixty-five acres. I don’t want to sell one piece to anybody. ” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even before Mr. Loomis came, I had already been wrestling with the idea that I had to tackle that acre and a half with the shovel. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lucas’s house sat less than a half acre beyond the vegetable garden to our right side. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Every now and then I’ll pass another hiker on his or her way down, and we’ll nod or say hello, in the way that people surrounded by acres of silence do. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

In 1956 nearly a million acres were sprayed in the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Michigan, and New York. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Even when they are not there, when whole city blocks downtown and acres of lawned neighborhoods in Sag Harbor cannot see them, the clicking is there. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

One bushel holds 56 pounds of kernels, so 180 bushels is slightly more than 10,000 pounds of food per acre. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A good many people now have misgivings about the aerial distribution of lethal chemicals over millions of acres, and two mass-spraying campaigns undertaken in the late 1950’s have done much to increase these doubts. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A man who might have been well-to-do on ten acres in Europe was rat-poor on two thousand in California. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then the baishakunin, whose work was to procure brides, showed them twelve acres of prime mountain land, which, he said, the potential bridegroom intended to purchase upon his return from America. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

To the left there are a few fruit trees and then, farther left, another small field of about an acre and a half. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The cemetery stretches out before us, acres and acres. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The final result covered almost fifteen acres and was the largest earthen structure in the Western Hemisphere; though built out of unsuitable material in a floodplain, it has stood for a thousand years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I was born right here in California. My old man had a chicken ranch, ‘bout ten acres. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cloud Pond was a couple of hundred acres of exquisitely peaceful water surrounded by dark coniferous forest, the treetops pointy black silhouettes against a pale blue evening sky. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

We had lost our three acres of strawberries, and I felt sad for Papá. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

For this reason, an acre of mixed grasses can actually produce more carbohydrate and protein in a year than an acre of field corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“He had a bad time on that eighty acres. Besides, he’s got plenty of land where his home sits and he don't need the aggravation. But I believe that’s only part of it.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was in the middle of nowhere, and the winter sun shone over the acres and acres of land that surrounded it. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Tents were spread out over an acre and a half of ground; all colors, shapes, and sizes. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gloom of the forest didn’t relent, though, for there were six primordial cedars that shaded an entire acre with their vast sweep of branches. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Because the spray planes were paid by the gallon rather than by the acre there was no effort to be conservative, and many properties were sprayed not once but several times. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Every pass across this field, which is almost perfectly flat, represents another acre of corn planted. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A mighty campaign was announced, in which the federal government in cooperation with the afflicted states would ultimately treat some 20,000,000 acres in nine southern states. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In place of petrochemical fertilizers, Greenways’s organic acres are fed with compost from a nearby horse farm and by poultry manure. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Five million cubic acres of water,” Thalia said. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The Chattahoochee is part of four million acres—6,000 square miles—of federally owned forest stretching up to the Great Smoky Mountains and beyond and spreading sideways across four states. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

That higher birthrate of food producers, together with their ability to feed more people per acre, lets them achieve much higher population densities than hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Having no natural controls in this new territory, they spread prodigiously, eventually occupying about 60 million acres. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Through brochures and pamphlets it conjured up a place with weather as wonderful as Southern California’s and soil as fertile as that of the finest acre of farmland in Kansas or Iowa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I take Mr. Campbell's advice, I should order seven bushels of seed, all told, for my forty acres. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

In 1996 the federal government estimated that kudzu had swallowed seven million acres. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The pig stomped around and tore down half an acre of trees, belching a cloud of noxious gas. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He found quite soon that even if he had ten thousand acres of hill country he could not make a living on the bony soil without water. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the Southwest an estimated 75 million acres of mesquite lands require management by some means, and chemical spraying is the method most actively pushed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In other words, a marked reduction in the poundages used would hardly alter the lethal situation, for applications of over o.i pound per acre to the pond itself are generally considered hazardous. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It gave him more than enough time to pitch the hay and tend to the animals on his own modest property, located on five acres just outside Tremonton. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Though precisely the same situation obtained for Jefferson, as well—he owned about two hundred slaves and ten thousand acres, a goodly portion inherited from his father-in-law—Adams never confronted him so directly. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Yes, and a few acres surrounding the shoreline.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long ago, Lourdes had prepared a curse for him but today her tongue is flat and dry, an acre of desert. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Philippines, my grandparents had acres of fields where they raised tobacco plants with wide, full leaves. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The shelves of plumbing equip-ment, and there seem to be acres of them, contain not a single item I can name, which gives me an idea of what it feels like to be aphasic. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had worn the scratchy I’ve Been Bad shirts, shoveled manure, crawled across acres of fields pulling weeds. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

An average acre of cotton that year received 63 pounds of toxaphene. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

From the Glade proper, the forest didn’t look that big, maybe a couple of acres. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

As a young man he had built it himself on acres of field and forest deep in the Catskill Mountains. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The policeman couldn’t see what there was to be vandalized on the property, which was basically a few acres of scraggly weeds. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rising a hundred feet from the forest floor, its soaring boughs spread out in a canopy of incomparable lushness, an acre of leaves per tree, a million or so in all. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Nod, say nothing, keep their faces turned down; it was how they got things like her seven acres. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The farmer had treated about 60 acres of land with a dust containing DDT and benzene hexachloride. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Once a lonely outpost, Sing Sing now occupies fifty-five acres of prime real estate in suburban Westchester, one of the priciest counties in the United States. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farther up the bay, on the dead-water east arm known as Little House Cove, the Westinghouse family had built a Newport-style mansion on thirty acres of Douglas fir trees. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And what is interesting, anyway, about a slim few acres of trees? Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spray — one- half pound of DDT to the acre in a solution of oil — filtered down through the balsam forests and some of it finally reached the ground and the flowing streams. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Let them burn by flame or fever, let the destruction started here rove acre by acre until the dead have been avenged. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I curled in the cavernous leather chair and faced Doctor Gordon across an acre of highly polished desk. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Along the docks, the sidewalks were mobbed with tourists shopping at the T-shirt kiosks, overflowing from stores, and lounging across acres of outdoor café tables, like pods of sea lions. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was alone in the middle of the driving range, surrounded by acres of golf balls. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked with an accustomed tread through the acres of fruit trees, where the least energetic could find an easy if unsatisfying meal. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I wish you could’ve seen my acres in the spring, all green frizz creeping along the prairie, or in late summer, when the flax turned the fields deep sea blue. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Lawrence had died the year before, and George had become the heir to Mount Vernon and the thousands of acres that his brother had owned elsewhere in Virginia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end they decide on a shingled two-story colonial in a recently built development, a house previously occupied by no one, erected on a quarter acre of land. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He bought up a huge portion of Edmonton and built the first real house in town, a vast home surrounded by sprawling acres of virgin countryside. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Construction began in about 1000 a.d. on an earthen structure that would eventually cover fifteen acres and rise to a height of about a hundred feet, higher than anything around it for miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They loosened their stays and sighed the hours away and cursed the heat and their husbands, too, for dragging them to Caldwell County to plant cotton and acres of pecan trees. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I scrape the cheese off a sliver of potato—which will not kill me, potatoes rarely cause death—and shove it in my mouth and chew, chew, chew, smiling across the acres of tablecloth. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Cost us fifty cents an acre and we could pay on time. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to tell Elmer Ren, with a sick wife and too many children and his life tied up in 320 acres of Montana prairie, that he must leave all behind...that was a different story. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She don’t flash it ’round or nothing, but folks say anyone that can buy fifty acres without no loan must be rich as a slave owner! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

For example, an area larger than all of New England — some 50 million acres — is under management by utility corporations and much of it is routinely treated for “brush control.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The remaining one-third—49 million acres, or an area roughly twice the size of Ohio—is available for logging. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He said that the 450 acres of forest were also an important part of the farm operation. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Whatever his race, each convict is a citizen of a stony village that exists within the prison’s steep, machine- gun-guarded walls—twelve gray acres of cement streets and cell blocks and workshops. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But every evening after work he had looked across the river to these barren, empty hills, and finally he had bought a couple of acres and began building our house. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hedge maze covered several acres of land behind the mansion. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The foreigners, coming from a land plagued by famine, were awed by maize, which yields more grain per acre than any other cereal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The estate was a huge piece of land, acres, encompassing a horse bam, a large vegetable garden, and a pool, tended by a young white caretaker named Harry. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my heart is already promised—to this 320 acres of mine. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It’s a fantastic place because they have acres and acres all for their own tomb, and it’s fenced in with a private road which they only open up when one of the Mastersons dies. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I carried a tin bucket of water to a shaded area in the five acres of scrub and dumped it on the ground in the same place a couple of times a day. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Here were acres upon acres of meadow and cow pasture, hard ground cleared for the drilling of militia. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rocks, dirt, barbed wire, ferocious dogs, menacing guards, and acre after acre of drab barracks stretched as far as I could see. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The sky is vast, unblocked by buildings, even the modest ranch-style homes are separated by many acres. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A village in China of fifteen hundred people might support itself entirely with 450 acres of land, which in the American Midwest would be the size of a typical family farm. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It was therefore more than clear that spraying at the rate of a pound of DDT to the acre posed a serious threat to the fishes in forest streams. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Now millions of acres of sagebrush lands are sprayed each year. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“And three hundred acres of land to explore. You and MacDuff will have a lovely time.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

During a break before going to grad school, they started a roadside organic farm on a few rented acres, growing raspberries and baby salad greens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The British then moved on, razing fifteen more towns and burning fourteen hundred acres of corn. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I have all my teeth and all my hair, two fine workhorses, a four-room house, and twenty acres of land beside. I work hard and I do not smell all that bad, eh, little Chaya?” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was built in 1889 as a charity hospital for the sick and poor, and it covered more than a dozen acres where a cemetery and insane asylum once sat in East Baltimore. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Got a house bought and paid for and sixty acres uh land right on de big road and . Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The whole operation had cost less than a penny per acre. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Then tell me how many acres it is, and where exactly it is, and I’ll find out how much an acre of land is going for in that area.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before the backhoes and work crews descended in 1952, there were no sewers across its 5,500 acres, no running water, little electric service, and no police or fire departments. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Before hybrids, a farmer could plant eight thousand corn plants in an acre. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They didn’t have much technology, but they had a pond, and acres of land, and animals. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The prison itself is set amidst the strikingly beautiful scenery of the Cape, between the mountains of Constantiaberge to the north and hundreds of acres of vineyards to the south. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as Christiansen saw the photos he realized why he had failed to spot the caldera: virtually the whole park–2.2 million acres–was caldera. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

As a result, one acre can feed many more herders and farmers—typically, 10 to 100 times more—than hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the rain stopped and the fields dried up and Dad and Matthew and Mark went back to their combine and tractors, acres away from the house. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

They came upon many hidden pools, and broad acres of sedge waving above wet and treacherous bogs; but Shadowfax found the way, and the other horses followed in his swath. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Beller your head off if you want to. You got the whole night and a twenty acre pasture to beller in.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our house was separated from the river by a crescent-shaped parcel of five acres of wild, uncleared growth. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It had the look of an ambitious architectural breed of lichen that was trying to cover as many acres as it could. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Millions of acres of forests were sprayed instead of thou sands as before, in an effort to save the balsams, which are the mainstay of the pulp and paper industry. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m right. Near the town is a waterfall and lots of acres for a pig to forage.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, Lord knows, we were drowning in pecans—sixty acres of them. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He would plow for me, sixty acres, if twenty of it were his to harvest. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He returned with enough treasure to buy thousands of acres. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The nearer acres of rock flowers fluttered and for half a minute the breeze blew cool on their faces. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The night before, during dinner, August had said she owned twenty-eight acres left to her by her granddaddy. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, George can grow thirty thousand plants in an acre. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

On the day the fire started, over 55 miles of pine- block streets and 600 miles of wooden sidewalks bound the 23,000 acres of the city in a highly combustible knot. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Two crops a year are not uncommon; in terms of yield per acre, peach palms are typically much more productive than rice, beans, or maize. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Helen Jean didn’t smile, but she said, “Gypped you again! This thing isn’t even worth a half acre!” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty acres of flax and twenty more of wheat. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

On the road ahead, he can make out several acres of uncut hay and the gentle profiles of unlit farm buildings—a house and barn. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She’d come to Buxton with lots of pieces of gold sewed up in her dress and bought fifty acres of land in the south of the Settlement. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“So you heard nothing about any claim the Miyamotos might have had to seven acres of your newly purchased land?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The main building was a long, low warehouse, surrounded by acres of statuary. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“My tools? I have twenty acres of trees to care for. And I’m a wood-carver. You thought they were weapons?” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Users of one product, for example, apply 60 pounds of technical chlordane to the acre if they follow directions. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The waterfront park is only an acre long. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Potato soils have been found to contain up to 15 pounds of DDT per acre, corn soils up to 19. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Hawaiian labor corvees built elaborate irrigation systems for taro fields yielding up to 24 tons per acre, the highest crop yields in all of Polynesia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It only takes a few weeks of work over a year to raise five hundred acres of industrial corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The rhododendron thicket was about twenty feet back from the Burroughs’s lane and about a quarter of an acre big. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

After all, because of companies like his, thousands of acres of American farmland are now chemical-free. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In contrast, the unsatisfactory attempts at chemical control in earlier years had cost about £, 1 o per acre. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Of the Forest Service’s 150 million acres of loggable land, about two-thirds is held in store for the future. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Did your husband seem disappointed, Mrs. Miyamoto, that he had not succeeded in purchasing his seven acres? Did he seem to you disappointed?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The field with the bald acre of trees before it. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Over the years nine children were born, four boys and five girls, and with each birth another quarter-section was added to the ranch, and that makes eleven quarter-sections, or seventeen hundred and sixty acres. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She felt willing to push and pull about this; seven acres was near one-quarter of the property, one-quarter of their holdings. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The towers were part of a windmill farm, which spanned more than eight thousand acres and was expected to eventually supply electricity to some forty-five thousand homes in Oklahoma. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just slaughterhouses and meatpacking factories that occupied the Yards’ four hundred acres. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They spread out over the twenty acres of floor space; they roam from room to room to room to room to room. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must have stretched for several acres, and to support all of his bulk there were a hundred golden legs, each carved like some creature of the sea. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In terms of their effects on birds, the prescribed use of heptachlor would be equivalent to 20 pounds of DDT to the acre, that of dieldrin to 120 pounds! Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It had ten acres of orange trees and a Spanish-style house where Margaret, her parents, her seven brothers, and her seven sisters lived. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Besides the more than four million acres_of rangelands sprayed each year, tremendous areas of other types of land are also potential or actual recipients of chemical treatments for weed control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He says, “This is just what we hoped for when we moved here. Thank you for letting Calvin play in all your acres.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“Hard to work. Good sun, bad drainage. Least productive acres on the property. He knows that. That’s why he asked for it. Knows it’s the only piece I’d think of letting go.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A second daughter, Polly, was born that year, and as his business took root Harry bought a stump farm—160 acres of recently logged land southwest of town. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If they use another of the many available products, they are applying 175 pounds of metallic arsenic to the acre. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

If you include all the farmland growing fruits and vegetables for Earthbound it comes to a total of 25,000 organic acres. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Beneath the walls of Isengard there still were acres tilled by the slaves of Saruman; but most of the valley had become a wilderness of weeds and thorns. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Even today, the intact walls of its Old City encircle an area of 346 acres, far more than the equivalent ancient centre of any European capital. The civil war's threat to Damascus 2013-01-02T08:00:02Z

This handsome English manor was built in 1989 and sits on more than 12 verdant acres in Greenwich, Connecticut, just one hour from New York City. Tour a Luxe Estate in Greenwich, Connecticut 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Since then, it has survived encroachment from the tourist industry to maintain its oceanfront headquarters, 3,100 acres of coffee trees and status as the largest coffee plantation in Hawaii. 36 Hours in Kauai, Hawaii 2013-12-05T17:25:08Z

They sort and care for their cattle, plant and harvest 1000 acres of corn and soy and maintain their grazing land. “We don’t have a day off”: A Nebraska cattle family pins its hopes on change 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

And it sat on nearly six acres of land. House Tour: Cold Spring, N.Y. 2010-12-30T20:43:36Z

But the development on 65 picturesque acres southeast of town is more than a warehouse with a few sound stages. Santa Fe welcomes world's newest movie studio 2011-10-08T23:01:04Z

And considering that cicadas emerge in droves of up to 1.4 million per acre, it’s no surprise that they are invading outdoor weddings. This Season’s Wedding Crashers: Cicadas 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

Ultimately he will have about six acres, just about the size that Mr. Lambert, a fierce individualist, and his life and business partner, Rosalind Hall, can farm themselves. Leaving It All Behind for the Love of Nebbiolo 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

The Santa Fe Art Colony, with its 57 artist lofts spread over roughly two acres, allows for an ongoing dialogue between a community of artists. Rent hikes and evictions — is this the last stand for artists in the Arts District? 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

The actress said she studied "acres of footage" and was "very scared" because Ms Mowlam, who died in 2005, "doesn't look anything like me". 2010-01-20T16:12:00Z

It occupies about 550 acres of the sprawling 9,000-acre site, which also includes indoor galleries, a zoo and a nature preserve. Looking for art alfresco? Head to these U.S. sculpture gardens — or find one near you. 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

The estate is set on 15 acres in the suburban community of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. George Washington Stayed at This Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, Estate 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

When the brothers were growing up, Don Sr. farmed 600 acres of hay, wheat and alfalfa. At Home With Donnie and Joe Emerson: Touring the Farm Where the Emerson Brothers Recorded Their 1979 Album 2012-09-12T22:45:21Z

A Day in the Park At 1,293 acres, Forest Park is one of the most treasured gems in St. Louis. Take Me to St. Louis 2010-05-15T00:07:00Z

The site stretched as far as the eye could see: 1,000 acres of a green valley watched over by the Glastonbury Tor, a sacred pagan hill. Glastonbury Festival Celebrates Its 45th Anniversary 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

Here at home, where a typical farm is hundreds, or maybe thousands, of acres of just a few crops, it’s harder to find an economically feasible way to incorporate trees. There’s an environmental superhero growing near you 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

Blackberry Farm—an all-inclusive 62-room resort and spa in Walland, Tennessee—occupies 4,200 acres in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. Nine Country Inns to Visit This Fall 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

In Utah, 55 miles north of Salt Lake City, Powder Mountain Resort is adding two chairlifts, opening up an additional 1,000 acres of ski hill. 26 Ways That Skiing Gets Better This Season 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

They purchased a 1970s residence, built in a style one might call contemporary barn, set on a one-and-a-half- acre hillside site with majestic oaks and a gurgling creek. Toms Founder Blake Mycoskie Takes AD on a Tour of His Los Angeles House 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

My little studio sits on just five acres in the “suburban bush,” eighty miles farther from the mountains, and only a dozen miles from downtown Fairbanks. Leaving Alaska 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

Lovely 12-room inn on 100 secluded acres, 20 minutes from downtown. In Asheville, N.C., foraging for food with the Mushroom Man

Crews have cleared acres of trees to open up farmland for Axum and his small team of assistants, contractors, volunteers and students to go about their work. UDC’s research farm embraces multiple missions: grow, teach and discover

Later, my husband and I took a boat to Drottningholm, the Swedish Royal palace, an enormous pile of a place with acres of formal gardens surrounding it. Home Exchange 101 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

The landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, in laying out thousands of 19th-century parkland acres, specified fine points down to the rock textures. Hand-Me-Downs and Discards from Design History’s Treasure Chest 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

Pierson was so happy with the results that he built a much larger 260-kilowatt solar system on his second farm, where he grows forage for the cows on about 700 acres. On-farm solar grows as farmers see economic rewards — and risks 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z

The Walls had six children together, and over time acquired an additional 180 acres. At Ontario Underground Railroad Sites, Farming and Liberty 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Property Values: Nearly six acres, the parcel offers guest quarters, a greenhouse, and a pool with a pavilion. Extraordinary Homes for Sale Around the World 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

They then snapped up two adjacent properties in order to create a new mixed-residential and hotel development to be set behind three acres of lush oceanfront gardens. The $120,000 Banana Wins Art Basel 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

Of the roughly 95,000 acres of cabernet in California, according to the United States Agriculture Department, only about 22,000 acres are in Napa. California Cabernet Sauvignon, From Beyond Napa Valley 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

At least it did until 4 December, when a fire began in Santa Paula that would grow to more than 280,000 acres, making it the largest conflagration in California’s recorded history. A dog rescued from 'kill list' helps save lives in disaster zones 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

By the end of 2024, when the expansion is expected to be completed, the facility is to span nearly 344,500 square feet, or almost eight acres, on three levels. Shaking Off the World’s Worries, Jewelry Focuses on Growth 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

The 95 acres of New Morning Farm sprawl across hill and valley in south-central Pennsylvania. A memoir of growing up on the farm that advised the White House’s Kitchen Garden

The lodge, on 12 acres along the Tatai River about 50 miles northwest of Chi Phat, is thick with palms and brightly colored flowering bushes. Next Stop: In Cambodia, Koh Kong Emerges as an Eco-Tourism Destination 2011-03-04T19:55:00Z

There, the 15 acres of vines on steep hillsides are baked brown by the sun and parched by the drought. Drought Brings Soul Searching to California Winemaking 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

In later works like the plans for a “Forest for New York,” 100,000 trees to be planted on 120 acres of landfill in Queens, one of the new commissions, the rigor is mitigated. Review | Neglected visionary Agnes Denes altered our landscape with her art. At 88, she’s finally getting her due. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

Marine Park, with its 530 acres of grassland and salt marshes near Jamaica Bay, is the largest park in Brooklyn. The N.Y.C. Parks Commissioner on ‘the Experience of Place’ 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

Nelson is growing up with acres of nature to explore and apples growing across the street. House Tour: Warwick, N.Y. 2011-06-30T22:48:16Z

One generally accepted rule of thumb is that they are a minimum of 25 acres in size. Twilight of the Glaciers 2011-07-29T19:50:35Z

“It’s a promontory on about four acres with a 180-foot drop down to a river and a stream that combine on the land.” Balinese Beat 2010-06-01T04:00:00Z

Liberty’s 18 emus join goats, sheep, alpacas and other animals roaming 64 acres of gently rolling terrain. This bird doesn’t fly or chirp. And it may stand taller than your dad. 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

The ridge holds 720 acres of prime redwood, at least a million dollars of lumber — if Rich can get it harvested in time. Review | ‘Damnation Spring’ beautifully explores the human cost of environmental damage 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

The restaurant’s owner, Franco Nuschese, has also been turning over his nearby villa and its three acres to Juleanna Glover, the consultant and mogul whisperer, for a series of large dinner parties. Washington Society Steps Back Out 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

When it was first surveyed, in 1847, it measured a robust 1,140 acres. In Chesapeake Bay, Poplar Island is a man-made miracle 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

The Texas Forest Service responded on Sunday to 63 new fires burning on more than 32,000 acres including 22 new large fires. Wildfires char 1,000 homes in Texas 2011-09-06T16:18:05Z

Today, companies like Tentrr allow would-be campers to book acres of private land and a fully equipped campsite with a few taps of an app or clicks on its website. A Room (or a Ryokan, Yurt or R.V.) With a View 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

The farm is high on a hill overlooking many rolling acres and the sea; it was raining the day we were there, but the view was still staggering and the sheep unimpressed. Shetland Islands: Scenery, Sheep and Knitters Galore on Britain’s Northern Tip 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

Thomas Jefferson is introduced as a "powerful advocate of liberty" who "inherited some 5,000 acres of land," but is not identified as an owner of slaves. Historians question White House presidential bios 2011-04-05T13:26:27Z

In addition, trees were thinned in the Wild West glades, opening up 35 acres of new tree skiing. 52 Places to Go in 2015 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

One critic is Daniel Dover of Darby Farms, who works about 50 acres of land near Athens, Ga. The star attraction is pastured poultry. At White Oak Pastures, Grass-Fed Beef Is Only the Beginning 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

To see it come into view, set on 1,000 acres in Berkshire, is to truly understand his meaning. Julian Fellowes: The Creator of ?Downton Abbey? 2011-09-11T05:00:22Z

Seventeen acres of industrial space were replaced with scenic walking trails, an outdoor theater, and a skate park. Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward 2012-10-08T16:20:13.390Z

If hiking and wine tasting appeal to you, they offer a "tree adventure" and "treetop village," complete with 11 treehouses spread across three acres and connected by bridges and netted walkways. Head to these orchards to go apple picking this fall 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

Since the early 19th century, Columbia University had owned the land — 12 acres bounded by Sixth and Fifth Avenues and 49th and 51st Streets. Rockefeller Center’s Art Deco Marvel: A Virtual Tour 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

The Skirball Cultural Center is set on 15 acres, about 20 miles from downtown Los Angeles. To Boldly Explore the Jewish Roots of ‘Star Trek’ 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z

Grange Park Opera will open there in 2017, in a new opera house surrounded by acres of gardens and space in the main house for 150 people to dine. For Opera Fans, a Grand Day Out 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

The camp encompasses 500 acres, 155 buildings and 300 ruins. At Auschwitz-Birkenau, Preserving a Site and a Ghastly Inventory 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

It’s 183 acres, unique with its hot springs, and waterfall, and two rivers, and the mountains. Colorado's Ghost Town Deluxe: Dunton Hot Springs 2012-10-19T13:50:00Z

Those expenses are the same whether you’re farming one acre or 100. Why does a strawberry grown down the road cost more than one grown in California? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

But in the past 200 years in the US, they have also been disappearing, at a rate of 60 acres per hour. Can more farmers be convinced to conserve and restore wetlands? 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

Today, the space is 1.5 million square feet on 35 acres, of which about 150,000 square feet are devoted to the foundations, including galleries and public areas. Mana Contemporary in Jersey City 2013-05-16T20:51:44Z

In December, the company expanded its presence by purchasing another 12 acres in the same area. Sony debuts 'The Interview' online, upending Hollywood-tech equation 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

The Fort Berthold Reservation covers nearly a million acres of rolling hills and prairie in North Dakota and is home to the “Three Affiliated Tribes” of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara. An Oil Boom, a Missing Body and a Native Woman’s Quest to Find It 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Any new billionaires seeking to live the vintner’s dream will pay an average of about $300,000 for a single acre of planted vineyard. I love a good Napa Valley cabernet. If only I could afford it. 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

So he sold the château but kept La Datcha and two and a half acres around it, including a rustling grove of birch trees. Pierre Bergé calls on Jacques Grange to Decorate his Russian-Style Dacha 2014-02-07T05:00:00Z

There are several attractions within the 135 acres of South of the Border, but the aforementioned Motor Inn was our entry point to this campy destination. This S.C. roadside attraction is garish, tacky and un-PC — but I stopped anyway 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Harris’s only concrete proposal is for Stanford University to give back the 8,000 or so acres it owns to the descendants of the Ohlone, the Native people who once lived there. Can One City Be a Microcosm of Everything That’s Wrong? 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

And given the recent government approval to build a titanium mine nearby, Chi Phat itself faces the possible loss of 11,000 acres of rain forest and and additional challenges to its eco-tourism efforts. Next Stop: In Cambodia, Koh Kong Emerges as an Eco-Tourism Destination 2011-03-04T19:55:00Z

It is still the world’s largest religious structure, encompassing 401 acres — so commanding that a traveler forgets “all the fatigues of the journey.” In Cambodia, Along the Path to Something Profound 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

The sale would include all 180 acres and all of the buildings except for the Winton Guest House, designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry. St. Thomas finds buyer for conference center 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Situated on 133 acres with an open meadow, a creek, a forest, and an iconic mountain range called Shakespeare Rock, the aptly named Shakespeare Ranch boasts beautiful vistas along Lake Tahoe. Tour a Historic Compound in Glenbrook, Nevada 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

So consider these 500-plus acres, deliberately less manicured than their Manhattan neighbor, a bucolic improvement. Keeping a Distance, From Everything but Nature 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

First, Mr. Slawenski says, he moved to Connecticut, and then in 1953 purchased 90 acres of hillside property in Cornish, a village in New Hampshire. Books of The Times: Peering Into A Reclusive Life 2011-02-10T15:17:01Z

Mr. Glynn is partnering with the city on a future Piers Park II, which will add four and a half acres of green space along the shore. In an East Boston Shipyard, a Watershed Idea for Art 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

“The big grower pulling in $5 million on an acre might be able to survive, but the single mom keeping a half dozen plants to make ends meet, she probably won’t make it.” T Magazine: The High Life 2011-03-25T17:30:04Z

And our holloway was, like Household's, bordered by "an acre of pasture", its hedges were "grown together across the top", and it was waymarked by "dead oaks", each "a paradise of wood-pigeons". Robert Macfarlane: rereading Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male 2013-03-15T12:03:22Z

I live on 86 acres in the middle of nowhere, and I get to a town if I need supplies. Watch John Mellencamp's Video for "Troubled Man": Premiere 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

We bought this home and twelve acres in the fall of 1964, and moved in, in the midst of renovations, in the summer of 1965. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z

Whichever is your family’s favorite, these Brooklyn acres offer an associated activity. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

But what was I going to do with 50 acres of woodland? | Palatial Near Pienza 2012-09-05T18:00:21Z

Across its five acres of vines, pearl-sized grapes like cabernet franc are plumping up in the soft, salty air. 36 Hours on Outer Cape Cod 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

And at the Drumlin Farm Community Preschool in Lincoln, Mass., founded in 2008, children learn to feed farm animals, grow vegetables and explore the farm’s many acres of wildlife habitat. Preschool Without Walls 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

At 29,000 acres, the El Yunque National Rainforest is one of the oldest forest reserves in the hemisphere and one of the most biologically diverse run by the U.S. 5 Caribbean Islands Where You Can Go Beyond the Beach 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

Now 70, she lives in a spare adobe house in Santa Fe, overlooking an acre of scrub and the Sangre de Cristo mountain range. The Queen of Change 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z

Held at a luxurious log mansion on 14 rolling acres in Saugerties, New York, Renew Breakup Bootcamp offered a chance to reset. 52 Hours at Breakup Boot Camp 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

On 178 acres at the edge of Volcanoes National Park in northwestern Rwanda, this new lodge sits close to the habitat of one-third of the world’s remaining mountain gorillas. 5 New Standout Safari Camps 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z

But it's harder for them to have the autonomy that, say, Maxwell Perkins enjoyed when taking on Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, let alone to spend the acres of time he did improving typescripts. The lost art of editing 2011-02-11T14:05:33Z

As the supply chain disruption began, she saw the need for more flour, and contracted with Domoy Farmsin western New York for an extra 40 acres of spring wheat. After the pandemic flour craze, micro-millers take stock 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z

Mayor Edwin Lee recently sent a letter to Lucas proposing to use a 2.3- acre lot across from the city's Embarcadero, according to published reports. George Lucas offered new museum site in San Francisco 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

Opened in 1930, the Surf Club was situated on more than six acres of prime beachfront property in the Surfside neighborhood. | A New Book Looks Back at Miami Beach’s Legendary, Soon-to-Be-Revived Surf Club 2014-01-28T23:17:40Z

Today, the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation is one of a several conservation groups active on the island, and owns and conserves more than 2,600 island acres. Personal Journeys: Walking Martha?s Vineyard 2011-08-12T18:55:00Z

Altman was skeptical that he and his small staff of 10 would be able to reconnect the city’s residents with its waterways, including the 47 acres along the Southwest waterfront. Do posh waterfronts make a city world-class? D.C. is betting hundreds of millions on it. 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

The acres of booths are filled with works by artists whose markets are well proven, while examples of emerging talents are few. Inside Art: Stars of Venice Shine in Basel 2011-06-16T20:58:17Z

In total, 6.5 acres of new gardens will be added, with a focus on plants native to Southern California -- an area formerly lacking in the gardens. Huntington to open first phase of new visitor center Jan. 14 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

Washington’s nationalism was informed, in part, by the 30,000 or so acres that he owned in the West, the value of which depended on a strong central government. Moral of the story 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

The family grows fruit and produce on 120 acres and has an 80-acre vineyard where the grapes are used for fruit juice, not wine. $99 Road Trip: A fresh and tasty Yakima Valley fruit loop 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

The sale includes 10 buildings on about 15 acres of land, which was developed two decades ago and is dotted with olive trees, oaks and a koi pond. SunTrust buys DreamWorks Animation property 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

But in disjunctive yet fluidly linked moments, the landscape of the family vineyard, with its flourishing acres, emerges as a background distinct from the stark drama of loss. New poetry from Jane Mead and Daniel Borzutzky examine death — in both human and national forms 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

It sprawls over eight acres up in the bluffs overlooking Broad and Zuma beaches; some guests have reported seeing dolphins and breaching whales. Here Are 13 Celebrity Homes You Can Rent 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

The entire city is designated as a National Historic District, with blocks of Victorian-style architecture, most built in the late 1800s after a fire wiped out 35 acres of downtown. A visitor’s guide to Washington area beaches 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

But now, Mrs. Wallace is back in the political fray on her own terms, with a debut novel named after the 18 acres on which the White House sits. What Change Could Look Like 2010-10-22T22:30:00Z

Talking Point: Equestrians will love the six acres of pastures. Extraordinary Homes for Sale Around the World 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z

The book is stuffed with memorable sights: the lights of Cape Town at night; the acres of phosphorescence kicked up in the Rose City’s wake; a huge, fiery meteorite smashing into the ocean. Books of The Times: John Moynihan?s ?Voyage of the Rose City? ? Review 2011-09-29T22:01:35Z

Devised by architect Chester Carjola and constructed in the early 1930s, this pitch-roofed, English Tudor–style residence sits on three pristinely manicured acres with Pacific Ocean and mountain views. An Elegant Tudor-Style Residence for Sale in Montecito, California 2013-12-23T05:00:00Z

Once the home of legendary French chanteuse Edith Piaf, this Mediterranean Revival stone cottage lies halfway between Nice and Cannes on five quiet hillside acres. On the Market: A Mediterranean Cottage in Valbonne, Côte d’Azur 2014-02-03T05:00:00Z

Ignited by lightning strikes, downed power lines and a long, catastrophic history of human error, fire is swallowing acres by the mile, destroying homes and neighborhoods, and killing every living thing in its path. ‘Bring Your Own Brigade’ Review: Some Say the World Will End in Fire 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

Run by promoter Live Nation, it’s situated on 40 acres in the shadow of Circus Circus’ faded big top and unnerving clown mascot. Rock in Rio is not for the Coachella crowd, but it works for Vegas 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

Henry purchased this property and 1,000 acres in 1770 after he had made a name for himself as a lawyer. On a Virginia driving tour, tracing patriot Patrick Henry’s path to history 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

Surrounded by dramatic red cliffs and overlooking the Arabian Sea, the hotel — W’s first in India — is spread over 21 acres and situated on the hip Vagator Beach in North Goa. 5 Noteworthy Hotels Opening This Summer 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

The owners of three of the five plots Trump needs are willing to part with their land, but Forbes, the owners of the acre on his property and another landowner don't want to sell. Scottish protesters plan to bogey Trump's course 2010-05-26T19:13:00Z

A gondola and three chairlifts access much of the 4,133 vertical feet and 2,800 acres of its terrain inbounds, but to get to some of the best stuff one must hike. A skier’s circuit: The ‘powder highway’ through the Canadian Rockies 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

He posted images of the movable chicken houses that dot some of the 2,400 acres Mr. Harris owns and leases, arguing that the birds were not truly pasture raised. At White Oak Pastures, Grass-Fed Beef Is Only the Beginning 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

On the outskirts of Austin, Texas, there is a small chapel — less than 250 square feet — painted white with dark gray trimming, sitting on acres of greenery. Weddings Are Their Job. What Happens When Everyone Postpones? 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

This makes more food per acre and could help bring down food prices. How shading crops with solar panels can improve farming, lower food costs and reduce emissions 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z

In all, Silver has 1,600 acres of terrain, five chairlifts and 2,200 feet of vertical. New owner from Seattle brings fresh energy to Idaho’s Silver Mountain resort 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Today, visitors can wander for hundreds of acres among its deserted streets and homes. Ghost Cities Of 2100 2010-07-27T16:00:00Z

This pales in comparison to the 218 million acres dedicated to corn, soybeans and wheat. Perspective | Agriculture can indeed fix our food system — if we reimagine it 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z

This peaceful park, framed by Shimbashi’s soaring skyscrapers, spans more than 60 acres of green meadows and placid ponds. 36 Hours in Eastern Tokyo 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

In the first decade of machine harvest, yields increased from 20 tons to 33 tons per acre. Perspective | One big reason some foods cost so much more than others 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

The following year, he bought a property of roughly sixteen hundred acres and began to plant soy, corn, beans, and wheat. Why Brazil’s Greatest Writer Stopped Writing 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z

The property’s 2.7 acres are lush with unusual trees, such as Japanese snowbell and weeping huckleberry. MoMA Built a House. Then It Disappeared. Now It’s Found. 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

The “Scene of the Crime Farm” is how his friend Ian McEwan described his last place, a run-down establishment on 100 acres outside of Oxford. A Story of Love and Obsession 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

White’s mansion is on seven hilly acres in southwestern Davidson County, just down the road from Hank Williams’s old house. Jack White Is the Coolest, Weirdest, Savviest Rock Star of Our Time 2012-04-07T00:27:22Z

In pursuit of his dream, Mr. Lambert, who will turn 40 this year, has bought 36 acres of land just north of the Yarra Valley, near the town of Yea. Leaving It All Behind for the Love of Nebbiolo 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

One of the nation’s largest urban parks, Shelby Farms Park, on the east side of town, encompasses 4,500 rolling acres shared with a herd of buffalo. 36 Hours in Memphis 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

They also bought a starter house, on four acres, and began building their life together. A Focus on the Children and Losing Each Other 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

Mr. Swing’s home is an updated old farmhouse that sits on 50 hilly acres of woods and pastures he uses for grazing cows and sheep. Newly Minted Work by a Change Artist 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z

There’s something pagan and comical about the excess, the acres of time, the extravagance of dress, the big prose, but none of that is what holds each one apart from any other. I do, again: ‘There is nothing as deadly serious as a second marriage’ 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z

The 40 acres that surround Union Market’s food hall still bustle with immigrant-owned businesses hawking cellphone accessories and Washington-themed tourist swag, delivery trucks coming and going with all sorts of edible cargo. Forget food trucks. Now ‘food halls’ are having a moment, and they’re changing the landscape. 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

The Gehry building occupies 22 acres across a wide intersection from the company's existing offices in a nondescript corporate campus once home to Sun Microsystems. A low-key Facebook building? In Gehry's hands, Zuckerberg has it both ways 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

The $3.5-billion project encompasses 70 acres of wetlands for kayaking and birding. Square-Foot Supersizing in the Tropics 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

The hotel is on 27 wooded acres near Memorial Park and the Houston Galleria, giving guests easy access to the city or an escape from it. Check in to work out at these fitness-focused hotels 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

The hotel’s luxury chalets are located on 10 acres of woodland, about four miles south of Golden. A skier’s circuit: The ‘powder highway’ through the Canadian Rockies 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

The danger was that a developer would steamroll the house to exploit the many acres of the expansive estate. A French Modernist Masterpiece, Lost and Found 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

The new quad opens up 635 additional acres of terrain on Bachelor’s east side, and boosts the groomed runs by 6.2 miles/36 acres. What’s new at ski areas around the Northwest and B.C. 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

If only pro leagues would adjust By issuing one to each team And swapping each stadium’s turf For 1.3 acres of Nerf. Style Invitational Week 1369: Shoot some oops — jokes about typos 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

Adding to the natural beauty of Sydney’s waterfront, the new Barangaroo Reserve opens Saturday, reclaiming 14 formerly industrial acres once devoted to storing shipping containers. Parks and Recreation News: R.V.-Sharing Website Launches and More 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

Yields of over 200 bushels per acre are not unheard of. Food corporations’ big drought play 2012-08-09T21:35:00Z

Just as beguiling for parents as for their children, Hudson Valley’s original art park wows at every turn with its large-scale works and breathtaking views spread across 500 acres. The Hudson Valley’s outdoor art parks make for an alluring pandemic destination 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

The area measures around 300 acres and is located near a highway, sports stadium and golf course. Michael Jackson museum plans unveiled 2010-06-03T09:34:00Z

The goats, which will probably remain through the summer and into the fall, will help clear about 1.5 acres along the park’s northeast perimeter. ‘Fun on the Farm’ in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Then head seven miles south to Shelburne Farms, a National Historic Landmark encompassing 1,400 verdant, rolling acres along Lake Champlain. 36 Hours in Burlington, Vermont 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Hornacek explores the 70,000 acres of land along the New River and learns about Bridge Day, a celebration where people gather to commemorate the platform being built. ‘Park’d’: Abby Hornacek reaches great heights at New River Gorge National Park 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z

Fifty years ago, the federal Wilderness Act was signed and now protects about 150 million acres of American wild lands, including within national parks and national forests. Celebrate Wilderness Act: No fee, films,walks and more at Olympic Nat'l Park 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

In two hours, we didn’t make it over to the 55 acres of restored heathland at Owlbeach – the dog was busy chasing squirrels and I was in a portal to another world. The best travel discoveries of 2017 – chosen by Guardian writers 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z

Plus, there's the slow, losing battle of trying to keep up God knows how many rooms, outbuildings, thousands of acres etc. TV review: Country House Rescue 2012-06-14T20:00:06Z

Hughes produces pasture-raised beef, pork, chicken, and other meats on 100 acres and grows his own feed nearby, on another 400 acres. On-farm solar grows as farmers see economic rewards — and risks 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z

Built in 1893 by a wealthy financier as a wedding gift to his daughter, the estate, modeled after a 16th-century Florentine palazzo, is nestled on 22 picturesque acres in the Berkshires. | An Old-School Hotel in the Berkshires That’s Perfect for Just Staying Put 2013-08-02T17:00:42Z

The El Dorado Fire, forced thousands of evacuations near Los Angeles and burned tens-of-thousands of acres. Boxing baby gender reveal party in Florida goes viral after parents had 'sad' and 'gloomy' year 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

Now it is farming almost 150 acres in Kent and another 75 in West Sussex. Great Bubbly From England, Believe It or Not 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Mr. Pinder and Ms. Jones renovated what was a run-down century-old mining cabin into an airy family home that has huge windows, a beamed roof, an open kitchen and 40 acres of uncultivated land. Pioneertown Wants to Be the New Old West 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Yet, even though less water was withdrawn, both the number of withdrawals for irrigation and the number of irrigated acres has steadily increased. Crop irrigation has changed, according to a new study 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

It has set up partnerships with cattle ranches in Tajikistan and bought 370,000 acres of sheep ranches across three states of Australia. Don’t censor the school-lunch blog 2012-06-15T16:15:00Z

The Shaker Museum itself owns 91 acres with 10 Shaker buildings in nearby New Lebanon, — once Mount Lebanon, the spiritual and administrative Mother Ship of the Shaker communities throughout New England, Kentucky, Ohio and Florida. The Shakers Are Movers, Too 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z

The self-catering cabins are scattered like Monopoly pieces on nearly five acres of land shaded by hickory, walnut, oak, cedar and — truth in advertising — pine trees. In Asheville, N.C., cheek-pinchingly cute 364-square-foot cottages are a step up from glamping 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

They would rather drink rum than clear an acre of pine trees. Review: ‘White Trash’ Ruminates on an American Underclass 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

Harpers Ferry encompasses nearly 4,000 acres in West Virginia, Maryland and Virginia, and the Appalachian Trail passes right through town. Can you plan a 2017 vacation with a 40-year-old travel guide? 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

In the early 1900s, Blacks owned nearly 15 million acres of land. Congress likely to legalize hemp in farm bill. It should also heal USDA’s history of discrimination 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z

Today, the park protects 70,000 acres of forest and farmland, 40 miles of the Delaware river and 28 miles of the Appalachian Trail. Top 10 US mid-Atlantic national and state parks 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

She plans to raise and milk goats for Caromont on an 8½ -acre farm she recently bought nearby. Her goat-cuddling event went viral. But most days, it’s all about the cheese. 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

So far, about 6.5 million acres of farm and ranch land are preserved in land trusts, according to a 2017 survey conducted by AFT, which the agency says is a conservative estimate. For a new generation of farmers, accessing land is the first step toward tackling consolidation 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z

Phase 1 of the park produced five-and-a-half acres of mostly active space, including a central green that has come to double as a de facto yard for a school next door. 3 Lush Parks Drastically Remake the East River Waterfront 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

Bypassing the tour buses parked at the mansion, I drove three miles west on winding, tree-lined roads to the distillery and gristmill, situated creek-side on seven verdant acres. Explorer: Rye Whiskey Is Back, With Flavors of American History 2011-12-23T17:57:07Z

The city provided 10 acres in Golden Gate Park, and members of the community began landscaping the site in a joint effort that has since amounted to over 250,000 volunteer hours. How Plagues Shape the Landscape 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

That estate, with its lush gardens, fountains and statuary on 36-hectares, or 89 acres, was a required stop through the centuries for artists, writers and wealthy travelers on the Grand Tour. U.S.-Born Princess Opens Historic Villa to the Public 2010-07-15T17:01:00Z

From the 1930s, Maud, her husband Arthur and their two boys Bob and Ron worked their 12 acres of orchard, with its apples and stone fruit, and 40 cows. Hidden women of history: How "Lady" Williams founded a great Australian apple 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

Only after they had walked through the miles of monuments and acres of white stone crosses did Dad finally give in. An orgasm almost killed me! 2013-01-19T22:00:00Z

What started as one acre of potatoes grew to five acres of vegetables and pigs. Orcas Island’s farmer-chef 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

Numbering about 6,000 at the beginning of the 19th century, the Nez Perce once roamed 17 million acres spread across four states. The Nez Perce are no longer leaving their story to others. They’ve become tour operators. 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

Set in a luxuriant landscape — 11,000 acres of swaying sugar cane, and terrain resembling an upside-down egg carton — is cumbrous industrial equipment for producing spirits. On a Caribbean Rum Trail 2014-02-21T19:02:44Z

When I reached the top of a small hill, I could see acres of green hills and rows of perfectly spaced, well-manicured vines. Discovering Auckland’s Charms (and Idioms) 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Just based on my parents’ experiences, I can’t imagine what it was like for the slaves picking endless acres of cotton from sunup until sundown. The Ga. towns that Sherman spared in his March to the Sea

On 2.4 acres of lush lawns and man-made, sculptured hills, Little Island percolates daily with creative energy, fueled by talent recruited everywhere from the theaters of Broadway to the platforms of the subway. Perspective | Little Island is New York’s latest landing strip for theater, music, art — and ambition 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

The interlinked companies, the documents show, purchased drilling rights to some 42,500 acres of lands owned by individuals and families through dozens of separate small deals. Land grab cheats North Dakota tribes out of $1 billion, suits allege 2013-02-25T19:43:00Z

Just 172 acres — 20 city blocks long and five blocks wide — the island floats in the middle of New York Harbor at the confluence of the Hudson and East rivers and the Atlantic Ocean. On New York’s Governors Island, the living is mellow and the water is every shade of blue

These acres of jagged blue-black rocks mark a path of destruction along the Tseax River Valley. Canada’s grand western loop around British Columbia is prime for a road trip 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Newton, 71, his family, and a menagerie of exotic animals moved in June to a downsized Las Vegas estate on about 20 acres. Former Wayne Newton Home in Vegas Selling for $70M 2013-09-12T18:13:22Z

On 130 acres of ground that was liberated, the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery is Europe’s largest such cemetery, memorializing 15,200 U.S. soldiers. 100 years later: Returning to World War I’s Western Front in France 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Before heading off on an around-the-world honeymoon the couple impulsively purchased 10 acres of land in Brattleboro, Vt., where Carrie Kipling’s family had settled generations before. Taking Another Look at the Author of ‘The White Man’s Burden’ 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z

Newark cider was both a point of pride and big business for the region — requested by name, reportedly lauded by George Washington and produced by dozens of Newark-area cideries with acres of orchards. Finding Lost Apples and Reviving a Beloved Cider 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

Some experts estimate that banana cultivators use 35 pounds of pesticide per acre, dramatically more than for other produce crops. The common banana is trash and likely to go extinct: Try eating these alternatives instead 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z

I sailed over acres of grapes, dry forest and a vast nature preserve. California’s Central Coast, overflowing with attractions

The park is currently closed, but thanks to both Google Earth and Smithsonian Magazine, its more than one million acres, dotted with over 100 lakes, are still open for online exploration. 52 Places, Virtually 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

In 1963 the Army Corps of Engineers built a dam that flooded around 2,500 acres of farmland, changing the topography of the region. Gee’s Bend Quilts in 2 Shows at Lehman College 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

The museum opened in 1940 in a huge mansion on 5,300 acres above the Columbia River, far from cities. Maryhill Museum gets $10 million expansion 2010-10-06T02:45:00Z

Some newly planted Napa Valley vineyards approach that density, though Inglenook’s average about 900 vines per acre, or eight feet by six feet. How influential can one vintner be? Two famous wineries get to find out. 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

The New York Botanical Garden is an undisputed national treasure, attracting nearly one million garden lovers a year who travel to the Bronx to marvel at its 250 flowered and forested acres. A new book celebrates the New York Botanical Garden’s incomparable horticultural library 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

Indeed, he has come to Keith, a mortgage broker, with only a very small dream in his pocket: to repurchase 12 acres of property that once belonged to his family. Review: Making a Beautiful ‘Case for the Existence of God’ 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z

The dreariness begins with the setting: 10 acres of rundown buildings on the Gulf Coast that were abandoned in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. "The Colony": "Survivor" meets the apocalypse 2010-08-07T23:01:00Z

Just as Louis XIV governed France from Versailles rather than Paris, Hadrian ruled Rome from this villa complex of more than 300 evocative acres. Tivoli: Still Rome’s great escape after 2,000 years 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

Cash's family moved to rural Dyess in 1936 because they were given 20 acres of land under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal plan to boost agriculture. Country stars raising funds to restore Johnny Cash boyhood home 2012-10-03T18:46:33Z

Eventually, Mr. Rockefeller turned over more than 5,000 acres to the National Park Service, which today owns almost two-thirds of the island. Caneel Bay: Why a Caribbean Paradise Remains in Ruins 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

For kids: The skeletons are cool, but kids love to romp through the 1,500 acres of Jamestown Island, part of the Colonial National Historical Park, when they get tired of history. Come Home to Virginia 2010-05-05T15:28:00Z

Inside the warehouse is an acre of whiskey casks, stacked six high on pallets, oldest to the front. Teeling Irish Whiskey's Pots O' Gold 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Its 3.3 million acres offer backpacking, kayaking on the Gila River, mountain biking, horseback riding and natural hot springs. New Mexico’s Silver City — just the ticket for a 25th wedding anniversary 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Once the vines matured in Years 5 and 6, production would swell to several hundred cases an acre. The Accidental Winemakers of Mendoza 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Two big sugar companies now control 500,000 acres; today, more than eight million people also depend upon the glades for their drinking water. Tears for the Magnificent and Shrinking Everglades, a ‘River of Grass’ 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

It offers a remote camping experience on nearly 60 acres of land in Brownfield, Maine, with only five yurts spread across it. Perspective | Nontraditional lodging fills a need for pandemic travelers 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

Built in the 17th and 18th century hamlet, the property is surrounded by 7100 acres of land and owned by the winemakers of the Mariano family. Wine, Good Food and Ferraris at Castello Banfi 2012-06-12T15:31:14Z

All of it from just this half acre. Is farming with reclaimed water the solution to a drier future? 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

Mount Rogers National Recreation Area: This federally designated area on 200,000 acres in George Washington and Jefferson National Forests near Marion, Va., boasts more than 500 miles of trails. Where to see foliage in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia

The National Arboretum in Northeast is nearly 450 acres with hiking trails, open fields, almost 10 miles of winding roadways, and special collections of bonsais, ferns, dogwoods, azaleas and herbs. As summer gets underway, a look at this year’s 10 best U.S. cities for parks 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

In Acadia National Park, 10,000 acres went up in flames, along with most of the mansions on Bar Harbor’s Millionaires’ Row. ‘The Stars Are Fire,’ by Anita Shreve, ignites history 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Some might perceive the establishment of the reservation system in the 1830s and the “40 acres and a mule” program during Reconstruction as beginning efforts to correct injustices associated with land and race. Congress likely to legalize hemp in farm bill. It should also heal USDA’s history of discrimination 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z

“Eventually, those square feet become acres of important habitat, maybe even a few corridors for wildlife.” Born to rewild: why now is the perfect time to make your lawn an eco-paradise 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

A veteran Mamet actor, Mr. Williams now lives year-round not far from the playhouse, on 16 rolling acres with a little orchard and a pond. For Stephen Adly Guirgis, the Long Road Back to a First Love: Acting 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

The area is largely undeveloped and is part of the Post Oak Savannah, an “ecoregion” of 8.5 million acres that runs along East Texas from the Red River to south of Houston. A battle of green against green in this Texas community 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

At 4,200 acres, Lake Louise is the largest of the “Ski Big 3” resorts. A family trades sand for powder on a spring break adventure in the Canadian Rockies 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

One of Mr. Stoecker’s properties, a 3,000-square-foot North Haven house on two acres with a waterfront pool and a private beach on Sag Harbor Bay, belongs to Shannon Such and Howard Deutsch. | Long Island: East End Homes Prepare for Guests 2011-04-28T21:30:16Z

The weekend getaway, designed by Jones & Boer Architects, sits on 68 acres of farmland on the West River, south of Annapolis, a spot well known to the family. A modern take on a Shaker farmhouse gives a family a relaxing river retreat 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

Christopher Lloyd, the great modern British garden writer, published a book in 1972 called “Shrubs and Trees for Small Gardens,” for plots “of no more than an acre”; I own approximately 0.0015 of an acre. A Gardening Book for Those Who Hate Gardening Books 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

But before disappearing he put up their house and 300 acres of land -- most of it valuable virgin forest -- to make bail. "Winter's Bone": American film of the year? 2010-06-12T23:01:00Z

The warehouse and a defunct oil fuel depot next door were to have been bought, knocked down and turned into parkland, 28 acres in all. Price Tag on a Brooklyn Park Reaches $225 Million, and That’s Only the Beginning 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

Treasury in lieu of cash, and thousands of acres were sold. In England, a trio of stately homes illuminates a bygone age 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

He lined the space with antiqued mirror and acres of figured gray marble—so much of it that the ceiling of the room below had to be reinforced with steel beams. Miles Redd Decorates an Eclectic Houston Mansion 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

In Jasper National Park in Alberta, Marmot Basin is adding an area called Tres Hombres, a north-facing, treeless and very steep slope of about 54 acres. At Smaller (and Affordable) Ski Resorts, New Lodges, Lifts and Runs 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

Ellis, whose early literary work and shenanigans generated acres of tabloid ink, has been reinvented as a Twitter-era podcaster and provocateur. Bret Easton Ellis, the political outrage machine who has never voted for president 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

“Oh, no, no no. No, no, no. Sixty thousand acres,” RuPaul corrected Gross. Did RuPaul just announce he has a fracking empire on his ranch? 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

Nearly the whole forest, 28,000 acres, was defoliated, no leaves, and giant trees were upside down. In Puerto Rico, Artists Rebuild and Reach Out 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

Katmai National Park sprawls over four million acres in southern Alaska. At Katmai National Park in Alaska, Bears Rule 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Although it’s situated on 18 acres, the house itself is rather small. Have deep, probing questions about the White House? Here is your source. 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

It’s the kind of space people spend a lifetime working 60-hour weeks to acquire: two-plus perfect acres with ivy-covered walls, a gorgeous weeping willow on the front lawn and a pool in back. In Hamptons, Ammon Twins Put Horror in Perspective 2012-11-14T22:17:45Z

Today these 13 expanses of lake and sea shorelines protect 809,000 acres, abutting thousands of miles of oceans and lakes. Water, Sand and Plenty of Elbow Room on 8 Wild, Protected Coastlines 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Forty acres immediately surrounding the site are being rezoned to create a Transbay District of residential and commercial development, including the city’s tallest skyscraper. Commuting to Disneyland 2012-07-14T16:00:00Z

They bought 63 acres for $63,000 in Pitman, a tiny community in Eldred Township, and they began to rescue period cabins and structures in the area and move them to the site. They Built It. No One Came. 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

Her family were sharecroppers, responsible for thousands of acres of wheat, corn and soybeans. True Love Can Leave Traces. S.G. Goodman’s Detailed Songs Do, Too. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

Another, more practical factor: Alta’s building code limits guest lodging facilities to 33 rooms per net developed acre, a policy that makes a huge hotel nigh impossible. Five lodges make Utah’s Alta Resort a winning ski destination 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

So he created shell companies, with improvised names, and through them acquired the acres in jigsaw parcels. Magazine Preview: You Blow My Mind. Hey, Mickey! 2011-06-09T14:04:26Z

Once Kauri Cliffs opened, Robertson was bitten by the bug: In 2001, he purchased another sheep farm—this one 6,000 acres—on stunning Hawke’s Bay on the southeast coast of North Island. Julian Robertson's Empire Down Under 2012-10-22T13:30:26Z

The armies of publicists and acres of “For Your Consideration” advertisements would hardly exist if the makers and distributors of award-worthy movies did not believe that worthiness could be monetized. Film: In Line at the Movies, Hoping for Good Enough 2010-11-20T19:14:00Z

I waited behind the barrier until they were finished, and then wandered down the nave, my head craned back to stare at the stony heaven above, all arches upon arches and acres of stained glass. T Magazine: Grand Teuton 2012-11-12T16:00:53Z

If you took all the clichés about horrible urban design and shoved them into 75 acres, you’d probably end up with something pretty close to Dallas’ Victory Park. When the 1 percent say no 2012-05-26T16:00:00Z

“They didn’t just buy country houses in the middle of 40,000 acres — they built vast palaces that were 15 feet away from the one next door.” ‘The Gilded Age’ Finally Arrives on HBO 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

In Appalachia, the average farm operates on less than 200 acres, while nationally this figure skews toward more than 400. With a focus on food sovereignty, rural Appalachian Ohio is rebounding 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

And so I decided to improvise my own walking tour of nearby Millennium Park, once a mess of railroad tracks and, since 2004, more than two dozen acres of postmodern architecture. Single in Chicago 2012-07-06T18:26:33Z

California, Oregon, Idaho, Colorado and Utah all boast alfalfa farms that stretch across thousands of acres and the crop has guzzled up plenty of water in these states, too. Arizona is evicting a Saudi alfalfa farm, but the thirsty crop isn’t going anywhere 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z

Spanning seven acres along the East River in Williamsburg, the public space touts gorgeous views of the city and hosts free community events, like a family-friendly drag queen story hour and a game library. 8 facts about transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z

The White Sands Missile Range occupies 2.2 million acres and is buffered by miles of private ranch land. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

Talking Point: Oenophiles will delight in the 49 acres of vineyards. Extraordinary Homes for Sale Around the World 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

She had been content cultivating a quarter acre of English perennial borders around her bungalow in town, but that was before she saw Tudor Grove's boxwood allée at a real estate open house. Landscape Revival 2013-02-25T16:20:02.927Z

A golf course, after all, may inhabit 150 acres of verdant terrain, but it’s a tamed and highly stylized simulacrum of nature, not nature itself. Fairway to heaven: What happens to an abandoned golf course 2014-03-13T12:45:00Z

Situated in Shanghai’s Jiading District, the entire project will occupy about four hectares, or 10 acres; with about 8,000 square meters, or 85,000 square feet, of exhibition space available. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Asian Collectors Showcase Works 2011-06-13T12:00:06Z

Mr. Butler moved back to Wisconsin last year and now lives on a dozen or so rolling acres south of Eau Claire with his wife and two young kids. ArtsBeat: Video: Nickolas Butler’s Wintry Place on Earth 2014-04-04T22:15:33Z

Today, he and his staff care for about 500 animals on the shelter’s 10 acres of land. Man protects 300 dogs from Hurricane Delta by bringing them to safety inside his home 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z

They will bring to life a port planet on the edge of “uncharted space” populated by smugglers and rogue traders, and, at 14 acres each, they are the largest single-themed expansions in Disney history. Tragic kingdoms – the Disney lands that flopped 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

This ceremony was the start of my silent meditation retreat in February at the Insight Meditation Society, a retreat center on 400 wooded acres in Barre, Mass., just 60 miles from Boston. My Week of ‘Noble Silence’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

If you eat a plant that yields twice the number of calories per acre, you halve the amount of land required to feed you. In defense of corn, the world’s most important food crop 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

She bought two acres with a small house in Vétheuil, high above a valley where, beyond fields and woods, she could see the Seine. Joan Mitchell: A Painter at Her Peak 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

On Feb. 15, Bluebird Backcountry will open near Steamboat Springs, Colo., with zero lifts, 1,500 acres of terrain, a 2,200-foot vertical drop and no more than 300 skiers a day. Small ski areas, big impact 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

The series had a huge influence on President Theodore Roosevelt’s decision to preserve what is now the 17-million acre Tongass National Forest, the scenic wilderness that encompasses most of Alaska’s Inside Passage. A D.I.Y. Trip Through Alaska’s Inside Passage 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

Half of our 300 million farmed acres are planted with corn and soy, and that’s a very big basket. How do you solve a problem like monocrops?

The Bin Laden Group — an 80-year-old Saudi family industrial conglomerate with an infamous black-sheep son — led a consortium to grow rice on more than a million acres in the Indonesian province of Papua. Don’t censor the school-lunch blog 2012-06-15T16:15:00Z

Greenwood Gardens sprawls over 28 acres that run right up against the extensive South Mountain Reservation, preserving the sense of total isolation from the human herd. Greenwood Gardens in Short Hills, N.J. 2013-04-25T20:46:49Z

“Dad has 1,200 acres,” Mr. Grant said. Every Plant Has a Story. You Just Need to Dig. 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z

There's no garden but there's 1,600 acres out there I don't have to look after, so it's the best I can do. Michelle Paver: a life in writing 2012-08-24T21:55:05Z

By the 1990s Christopher Ranch was the country’s largest grower of garlic, with thousands of acres planted around Gilroy and in the San Joaquin Valley to the east. Don Christopher, Who Turned Lowly Garlic Into a Staple, Dies at 88 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z

I spent the interludes hiking parts of the center’s 82 wooded acres, reciting mantras and sleeping. Four days of silence 2012-10-16T00:00:00Z

Majestic and dilapidated, the huge indoor-outdoor space recalls a classic European rail station thanks to acres of wrought iron, grand staircases, white tile walls and pointed domes. 36 Hours in Porto, Portugal 2011-11-25T06:02:02Z

Princeton’s arts commitment became a $330 million redevelopment with Mr. Holl’s building and the relocation of the transit hub — a total of 22 acres. On Elite Campuses, an Arts Race 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

In the city proper we visited Zilker Botanical Garden, a verdant respite with mini-gardens, almost like rooms, spilling from one to another over some 30 acres. Journeys: Texas Wildflowers Welcome Spring 2010-04-29T19:38:00Z

This was Goldstream Provincial Park, more than 900 acres of Douglas fir, cedar, hemlock and other trees; through it all runs a river where salmon spawn each fall. Vancouver Island, Through an Artist’s Eyes 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

From the desert outside, the campus looks like a military encampment: 800 acres surrounded by a ring road and a concrete and steel wall. Critic?s Notebook: Laying Out Economic Cities, Saudis See Window to Modernity 2010-12-13T03:28:00Z

We passed wild horses, dude ranches and yonkes — acres of old cars, piled like battered toys. In Baja, Camping, Cactus and Cocktails 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

The action was spread across 40 acres on a newly constructed, $25-million site at the northern end of the Strip that boasted festival rarities such as permanent electrical, water and sewage infrastructure. Rock in Rio debuts to 82,000 fans 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

We finished with a luxury bus ride to visit the mares, foals and yearlings around more than 1,100 acres, and we were always free to touch them. It’s a new tourist-friendly era at Kentucky’s famed horse farms 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

They've purchased their 40 acres of land, they can fish and hunt. Will Shakespeare survive the apocalypse? 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Days after Mr. Obama’s July 2015 designation, wildfires raged across Napa and Lake counties, eventually engulfing 100,000 acres by the end of the summer, including much of the landscape earmarked for the monument. At Berryessa National Monument, Wildflowers and Rebirth 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

Property Values: Occupying two acres in the highly sought-after 90210 zip code, the verdant grounds include a dramatic forecourt, a pool, and a sunken tennis court. Extraordinary Homes for Sale Around the World 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Each park will be 14 acres and will be populated with actors playing aliens, droids and other creatures from the Star Wars universe. Star Wars Theme Parks Are Coming to Disney World and Disneyland 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z

Made with both graphite and acrylic, the busy scenes achieve an entrancing variety of tones: acres of newspaper gray, crinkling across the drawings’ shallow perspective, are periodically cloven by a sudden swath of velvety black. Art Fairs Come Blazing Back, Precarious but Defiant 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Last week, Dixie and I traversed Sepiessa Point, through acres of ferns and scarlet oak, past the breeding ground for otters and out to where the grassland meets Tisbury Great Pond. Personal Journeys: Walking Martha?s Vineyard 2011-08-12T18:55:00Z

We were visiting the Simanjiro Plains in Tanzania — a wide-open stretch of grasslands spanning roughly 100,000 acres, 80 miles southwest of Mount Kilimanjaro. Explorer: Treading Lightly in the Simanjiro Plains of Tanzania 2011-05-20T18:55:00Z

Today 150 acres are managed by the city’s Trust for Governors Island, with the remaining 22 acres managed by the National Park Service. An Island of Culture in the Harbor 2011-05-26T20:32:56Z

There was also a cabin on sixty acres off a two-track road five hours north by car, beyond Grand Marais on the Upper Peninsula, where he sometimes retreated to write. Jim Harrison, Mozart of the Prairie 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

Part of the Classical American Homes Preservation Trust, today Ayr Mount is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and includes gardens, manicured grounds, and scenic trails spread over nearly 300 acres. A North Carolina Home Celebrates 200 Years of History 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

Hundreds of miles of trails wind through thousands of acres of coastal forest, while a grand old 1915 inn and outdoor skating rink remain reliable draws. A Midwinter Playground in the Hudson Valley 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

The collection of stylish Soho Houses, private clubs with rooms to rent offering entrée to nonmembers, moves to green acres with the recent August opening of Soho Farmhouse. Hotel and Cruise News: A Riverfront Resort in Bali, Discounts in Orlando 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Take your time exploring the more than 23 acres, which are home to everything from a Brazilian tarantula to an Indian rhinoceros. 36 Hours in Buffalo 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

Over the last couple of years, the Parrish Museum has attempted to make inroads with the growing working-class Latino population in Suffolk County, home to its sleek 34,400-square-foot facility, situated on 14 acres. Parrish Art Museum Names New Director 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

It will mean more snowmaking, a better ticketing system, and we plan to develop another 250 acres for trails on the west edge of the mountain. Explorer: A New Jay Peak, in Vermont 2011-12-09T19:25:24Z

And the National Park Service is expanding, placing tens of thousands of acres beyond the teeth of the timber industry. Review | ‘Damnation Spring’ beautifully explores the human cost of environmental damage 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

What did you make of the huge site, more than 700 acres, when you first began thinking seriously about how to build up there? Richard Meier on the Getty Center as it turns 20 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Instead of wasting this money on rent, I can come here and buy 40 acres for 100 grand.’” Pioneertown Wants to Be the New Old West 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Phelan told me the company would log no more than 100 acres, not including Martin’s property. A battle of green against green in this Texas community 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

Lava Beds, on more than 47,000 acres near the Oregon border, is perhaps the state’s biggest unsung National Park Service site. The Calif. national park — with lava beds — that most people don’t know about 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Time your visit for the Thursday evening summer concert series.carnegiehallwv.org St. Louis, MOThe park spans 91 acres anchored by the Gateway Arch. Gather for a Picnic 2012-06-28T22:20:05.700Z

But he looks around at 11 million acres of former Plains land controlled by Native Americans, to whom the animal remains sacred, and sees possibilities. Where the buffalo now roam: Local ranchers help put them on the comeback trail 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

They own 30 acres beyond the park and are considering improvements, like expanding a small splash area that opened in 2006. Storybook Land, Family-Run Amusement Park, Endures 2012-06-28T22:41:49Z

There he fabricated a series of over-size works that would eventually consume 10 acres of land. Watts to Joshua Tree: A tour of Noah Purifoy's Outdoor Museum 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

The "Avatar" attraction is to be an immersive land spanning several acres and will cost less than half of the estimated $1 billion it cost to expand Disney California Adventure Park, or around $400 million. Disney to build 'Avatar' attraction in theme parks 2011-09-20T18:30:24Z

At Wayfarer Vineyard, 30 acres of pinot noir and chardonnay vines on the far Sonoma Coast near Cazadero, the irrigation pond was full. Drought Brings Soul Searching to California Winemaking 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

“In any half-breed home there were jars of coins and a wistful plan to buy back the land,” Dimaline writes, “one acre at a time if need be.” A Métis Woman’s Husband Disappeared — or Did He? 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

The park marks its beginning in 1929 when 2,400 acres were donated in memory of Clarence Fahnestock, a physician who died of the flu while treating afflicted patients. Escape From the City: 9 Winter Outings That Fight Cabin Fever 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

We even moved to 155 acres in the country, away from judgmental know-it-alls and greedy pastors who wanted our family exploited on a stage for the cause of orphan care. Motherlode Blog: Foster Parenting Creates a Future, Without Erasing the Past 2013-01-27T14:41:46Z

Full leather midcentury skirts in butter yellow and lavender, bulked out not by a crinoline, but by an acre of fringe. The New, New Bottega Veneta 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z

The Maxwells now raise 5,000 pigs annually on 200 acres and plan to increase their herd by one-third this year. Sustainable pork farming is real 2013-04-14T17:00:00Z

Kathleen, who is Richard's second ex-wife, said it so eloquently when she looked at the beautiful acres of nature they have there all around them. Meet the narcissistic inventor of the bulletproof vest who "endangered as many lives as he saved" 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

Diggers will get one more chance to relish the acres of clams spread across four coastal beaches starting Tuesday, May 27. Best coastal razor clam season in more than 30 years ending soon 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

Home-schooled by their father — the only doctor around for miles and miles — they would spend their free time roaming the family’s 1,000 acres. Books of The Times: ‘The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls,’ by Anton DiSclafani 2013-06-03T21:16:33Z

About 27 acres of grassy slopes and palm and umbrella pine enclaves welcome sunbathers, joggers and joyous children. Rome’s seven hills offer seven green respites from summer’s crowds 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

At 110 acres, Père Lachaise is the largest park as well as the largest cemetery in Paris, and it is one of the city’s biggest tourist attractions. Dead famous: the Kickstarter campaign to restore Méliès's grave 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

“We’re planting 15 acres this spring, and I’m developing this brewery in the field.” A Furniture Maker’s Quest: Create Everything From Scratch 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

The new version moves the performance space and cafe from the water to the four sloping acres on the south side of the Edward Durell Stone-designed building. Kennedy Center swaps planned floating stage for pavilion on grounds 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Mesmerized by Africa on a trip there after his college graduation in 1961, Mr. Beard bought 45 acres near the Ngong Hills outside Nairobi and established his camp. Peter Beard Still Missing, Weeks After Disappearing on Long Island 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

In 1976, the family’s gift of five acres to arts organizations was the beginning of an expanding commitment. Henry T. Segerstrom, California Developer and Arts Patron, Dies at 91 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

Approximately 185 acres of exhibitions about plants from Canada and around the world, as well as Chinese and Japanese architecture. So you want to drive to Canada? 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Their home was beautiful: six bedrooms on a sylvan 1½ acres just inside the Beltway, a house that filled him with astonished pride each time he pulled into his own circular drive. Gloria: a short story by Alice McDermott

Aside from the Nintendo aspect, what’s currently known is that the new area will be located a few miles from the main Universal Orlando campus, and encompass 750 acres, the Associated Press reports. Super Nintendo World coming to Universal Orlando, too 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

There was some question as to how these vacant 600 acres, said to be the largest open land chunk in the city, would function as a concert venue. Mild weather, mellow vibe as DMB Caravan begins 2011-07-08T22:21:00Z

Indeed, his home outside Kingston is on five densely wooded acres, still damp and chilly after today's midmorning storm. Pearl Jam poster artist Brad Klausen has a new book: 'From a Basement in Seattle' 2010-11-28T05:01:00Z

They grew acres of pinto and Great Northern beans, and raised a few cows for milk and beef. Food Scholar, Folk Singer, Blunt Speaker: The Many Lives of Leni Sorensen 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

As part of that, this January, the Chilean government signed an accord with the nonprofit Tompkins Conservation to place an additional 10 million acres of combined public and private parkland under its protection. Place 11 of 52: In Chile, a Gorgeous, Very Rainy and Sometimes Lonely Journey 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

Not at all, because, humbly speaking, I am lucky enough and have worked hard enough to have 22 acres of land. Ludacris Talks 'Furious 7' and The Most Controversial Verse on His New Album 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

She lived, possibly alone then, in a mansion on a 3½ -acre estate in Georgetown. Katharine Graham at 100: Inside the making of one of the greatest Washington memoirs ever 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Now it's down to about 450 acres, a landscape of ancient oaks presided over by senior ranger Paul Cook. Looking for Robin 2010-04-14T07:00:00Z

Price calculated traffic patterns, population growth and proximity to freeways — and in 1953 homed in on 160 acres of orange groves as the perfect site for a manicured magic land. In Orlando or Anaheim for a Disney vacation? Explore the cities beyond the gates, too. 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

Vineyards planted with muscat grapes span 17 acres of the property, sharing space with 300 olive trees, horse stables, and a cowshed. On the Market: A 16th-Century Estate Near Lisbon 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

My grandmother’s house is a 1740s country house, tall and whitewashed, at the end of a long dirt driveway and in the middle of acres of farmland streaked with tumbledown stonewalls. “Is there an afterlife?” Ghost-hunting at my grandmother’s house 2014-02-02T11:59:00Z

It has been undertaking a major parks and open space program, upgrading neighborhood playgrounds and recreation centers, scooping up acres of disused land for new green areas and repurposing large swaths of formerly industrial waterfront. In Chicago and Philadelphia, the Difference a Park Makes 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

For its 193rd year, this perennial horticultural event is blossoming outside for the first time, spanning 15 acres of South Philadelphia’s FDR Park. This Summer, Get Invigorated With a Live Cultural Performance 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

“Slaves in the Family” chronicles the Ball family’s rice plantations: Starting in 1698, the family eventually held thousands of acres in South Carolina — and the slaves who worked them. New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Jack Kerouac to Black Lives Matter 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Situated on more than one and a half acres in Mecklenburg County, the residence is some 25 minutes from lively downtown Charlotte. On the Market: A Historic Southern Farmhouse 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

And atop the station itself will be a quarter-mile-long, five-and-a-half acre park of lush vegetation, lily ponds,  tall trees and an outdoor concert venue, accessible by escalators from inside the terminal. Commuting to Disneyland 2012-07-14T16:00:00Z

Two for One The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area contains a number of arches across its 100,000-plus acres in Tennessee and Kentucky. Visit the South's Arch Country 2011-05-18T13:20:07.640Z

Spread over 40 acres on the Strip, the custom-made “City of Rock” will be able to accommodate 85,000 people per day. Rock in Rio USA now offering single-day tickets 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Or, rather, six buildings, spread across 10 acres near the Potomac River and bounded on all sides by high-traffic roads in Foggy Bottom. ‘The Watergate’ Review: An Edifice on the Potomac 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Vienna, with 1,700 acres of vineyards inside its city limits, is the only major capital that produces wine. Vienna is cited as the world’s most livable city. Most exciting? Not so much. 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

It’s ostensibly the story of the lifesaving properties of her high-elevation ranch in Colorado, although there’s not much to cultivate up there in the long winters except, apparently, self-delusion and acres of self-satisfied contradictions. The Examined Life May Be More Worth Living. Reading About It Is Another Matter. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

She noted the cycles of flora and fauna on her acres of bog and forest and beach, and human events like Kamala Harris becoming vice president. The lasting testament of Jane Alexander 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z

That figure already surpasses the High Line’s cost to the taxpayer, and the whole park threatens to approach the amount paid for Hudson River Park, which covers 550 acres and is four miles long. Price Tag on a Brooklyn Park Reaches $225 Million, and That’s Only the Beginning 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

According to the Forest Service, which manages 193 million acres in 44 states and territories, only about 1 percent of visitors from 2010 through 2014 were black, and less than 6 percent were Hispanic. Few minorities visit Sequoia National Forest or the Sawtooth Wilderness. This man wants to change that. 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

There, some 15,000 fragmented acres of rolling lakeside dunes, wetlands and forest are interspersed with steel mills and power plants near the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor. Escape From the City: 9 Winter Outings That Fight Cabin Fever 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

Its latest iteration is more pedestrian-friendly, thanks to five plazas that span almost two acres of space formerly occupied by bumper-to-bumper traffic. 10 Places That Define New York City, Reimagined 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

Yes, at roughly $35 million, Phase 3, like the rest of the High Line, cost more per acre than probably any park in human history. The High Line Opens Its Third and Final Phase 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

We don’t think there’s any gas here, so you might as well take this $500 for your 10 acres,’ or whatever it was. A Muckraker Targets Onshore Drilling 2010-06-21T18:50:00Z

Griffin’s house is a modern, boxy white structure of 8,200 square feet sitting on 1.8 acres in the hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Kathy Griffin Is Trying to Get Back on the D-List 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

In the early aughts, the city-state expanded on that idea by turning 250 acres of reclaimed land by a reservoir into a massive green space. Skip the museum. These spectacular gardens combine history, culture and breathtaking beauty. 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

This year’s Womad devoted two acres to its spa and wellbeing area, and featured 40 vendors and therapists offering everything from meditation with a Buddhist monk to shamanic healing. Wellness: just expensive hype, or worth the cost? 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z

Opened in September, the new Barangaroo Reserve reclaimed 14 acres once piled with shipping containers on the harbor. 52 Places to Go in 2016 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

On a hill in the middle of Washington sit 12 acres of landscaped lawns, shaded walkways dotted with statuary, and a majestic cascading fountain. Is it Meridian Hill Park or Malcolm X Park? Your answer is meaningful. 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

The park sits on more than 300,000 acres along the Rio Grande in far west Texas, at the United States/Mexico border. 8 Trips Inspired by Oscar-Nominated Films 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

While the average farm size in Texas is 511 acres, the vast majority of farms in the state are small: According to the latest U.S. Small farmers are struggling after the Texas big freeze 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

In 2013, he planted 60 acres of hemp without government permission as an activist statement. Hemp: how one little plant could boost America's economy 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

For millenniums, two million acres of redwoods thrived in the nurturing fog belt of the Pacific coast. From Towering Redwoods to Tiny Creatures, This Novel Has It All 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

The parks, one at Disneyland Park in California, and the other at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, will each be 14 acres in size. Look Inside Disney's New Star Wars Land 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

Two centuries ago, the longleaf — Pinus palustris — covered 90 million acres of the American Southeast: vast reaches from the Carolinas to East Texas that supported more than 200 bird species. Every Plant Has a Story. You Just Need to Dig. 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z

The first phase being seen this week includes the restored Italian and rose gardens, a new exhibition on its history and access to the miles of pathways and vistas set over the 90 acres. 'Secret garden' Wrest Park reopens after restoration 2011-08-01T23:05:17Z

The new high-speed quad offers access to at least 100 acres that previously required skiers to hike in. 9 Things Every Skier Should Know This Winter 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

During the day he wandered the acres behind her house, picking through the scrub brush, the rocky terrain, the bristling white fir. Meet the modern-day Pagans who celebrate the ancient gods 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z

RH Modern bows this fall with an impeccably designed catalogue, a website, and acres of floor space. See Innovative Products from RH Modern 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Turns out these runs are part of Powder Country: 1,200 acres of backcountry-style terrain that funnels down from three chairlifts. Utah Powder and Steeps, Without the Crowds 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

He and his wife, Nancy MacBride, bought the original 25 acres in 2000 on the site of an old field-crop farm. Perspective | The key to a family farming renaissance? Niche crops. 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

In June of this year, while trimming blackberry bushes that threatened to overrun his two acres, he began longing for music festivals. Michael Hurley, an Original Folk Iconoclast, Turns 80 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

The results were shocking: Not only were there dozens of buildings surrounding the terrace, but the labyrinth of structures extended to an area of nearly 32 acres. Unearthing Everyday Life at an Ancient Site in Greece 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

It would be hard to imagine a better refuge for anyone yearning to flee the gridlock, frenzied deal making and acres of art-filled booths that took over this city last week for the annual fair. Once on This Island, a D.I.Y. Art Show 2010-12-05T22:54:00Z

We bought three acres to plant right away and another 10 acres that would remain fallow until we got our winemaking feet wet. The Accidental Winemakers of Mendoza 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Pedigree: Owned by one family since the late 19th century, this country compound encompasses more than 1,200 acres, including some three miles of frontage on Marie Louise Lake. Extraordinary Homes for Sale Around the World 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

Two acres of woodland offered serene seclusion, Lake Jackson promised perennial eye candy, and 100 feet of private shoreline plus a dock, 82 steps below the house, beckoned to those inclined toward fishing and boating. Spy chic: What made this couple fall in love with a (possible) former safe house? 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Riesling was more plentiful than chardonnay in the state a half-century ago, covering 450 acres. U.S. Riesling production ranks second worldwide

Most private vehicles are restricted to within the first 15 miles of the park, leaving the rest of Denali’s 6 million acres accessible only to those willing to strike out on foot, bicycle or bus. Seeking out Alaska’s Denali National Park in a summer of overcrowded outdoor spaces 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Whistler Blackcomb ski resort is, of course, the one to beat thanks to its more than 8,000 acres of terrain, including alpine views, and a vibrant night life at village lounges and restaurants. Ski Holidays for the True Novice 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

“They’re replacing wheat acres with more fall crop and if the harvesters aren’t there, what are you going to do?” asks Tracy, rhetorically. Racing against the harvest, custom wheat cutters struggle to stay relevant 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

Almost 35 acres were excavated, the building installed, then the hill restored on top of it. Architecture Review: Archea Architects’ Headquarters for Antinori Winemakers 2013-08-26T22:09:16Z

The buyer also has the option to purchase several acres adjacent to Graceland to display the jets, independent of the Presley museum. Elvis Presley's personal jets could fetch more than $10 million 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

On Dec. 1, her new endeavor, the Cliff Hotel & Spa, will open on five acres with 33 suites and four cottages. Resort and Tour News: A Caesars Redo, Winter Sports in China 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

On axis with Broadway, the tower would have risen on 16 acres of landfill, extending Manhattan in a broad paved arc 400 feet into the bay. 10 Places That Define New York City, Reimagined 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

The easement covers all 26 acres, so archaeologist Thane Harpole ensured that new utilities, driveway, walks and plantings respected history. Home & Design: History helps breathe life into a Georgian manor in Virginia

The original studio was located in southwest Atlanta; in 2016 Mr. Perry completed construction on a facility that sits on more than 300 acres of an old army base near the airport. A Boom in Filming Gives Atlanta Stage Actors Room to Maneuver 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Hembrey likes to say that his upbringing on 80 acres of sorghum fields gave him both his work ethic and his creative versatility. One Hundred Artists Rolled Into One Man 2011-12-16T16:41:49Z

Mingling of residents is pretty much guaranteed, for example, thanks to the fact that half of the community’s 1,176 acres are set aside for commons and other green spaces. Footsteps: Jewels of Olmsted?s Unspoiled Midwest 2011-09-02T18:18:14Z

He cited other sales that same month for as much as $370 an acre. Land grab cheats North Dakota tribes out of $1 billion, suits allege 2013-02-25T19:43:00Z

He already owned two and a half acres in a suburb west of Calgary, bought when Maounis had hired him, although it would take some time yet to build a house. Hedge fund’s wild side: The man who lost $8 billion 2013-06-01T20:30:00Z

The town also serves as an entry point to the Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge, more than 12,000 acres of jungle, beaches and coral reefs. Next Stop: A Trip Along Costa Rica?s Caribbean Coast 2010-04-03T03:51:00Z

By the time Prohibition ended in 1933, millions of acres of orchards had been razed and were never replanted, because cheap and plentiful grain made whiskey easier to produce. America’s First Moonshine, Applejack, Returns in Sleeker Style 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

Nearly 150 acres of olive groves buffer the property where grandly proportioned rooms feature exposed stone walls and floors, and some include original fireplaces, private gardens and outdoor soaking tubs. 8 European Hotels That Feel Like Home. Only Better. 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

The district in southern Georgia encompasses hundreds of acres of dairy farms, churches and roadside barbecue stands. A Black Republican tries to bring in Black voters to the GOP 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

Hess was born outside Flint, Michigan in 1962, growing up with his sisters on "twenty, bleak acres." Sheffield's owner Ric Hess dies at 48 2011-01-18T19:16:37Z

Behind the building lies his next project: 20 acres of longleaf pine savanna. Every Plant Has a Story. You Just Need to Dig. 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z

She has another house in Hawaii — “on the Big Island, where I live four months of the year” — and another on 100 acres of untrammeled California coastland. A Memoir That Sees Only the Tip of the Melting Iceberg 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

Within its 600 acres, you can still find stretches of the original lagoons. Footsteps: Jewels of Olmsted?s Unspoiled Midwest 2011-09-02T18:18:14Z

He lives “off the grid” in rural Willits, on 120 rugged acres dense with redwoods, pines and tan oaks overlooking Redwood Valley. A competitive beardsman saw his home burn. But then fans of his reality show came to help. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

At Bald Mountain, the bigger of Sun Valley’s two ski areas, 645 acres of snowmaking and the recently opened Roundhouse gondola have raised the quality of a day on the slopes. 36 Hours in Sun Valley, Idaho 2010-12-11T00:58:00Z

The park has just converted 50 acres to farmland, which Mr. Vasquez hopes to help plant with native species, many of which are highlighted in Mr. Medrano’s new book. Don’t Call It Tex-Mex 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

Soon after, they moved to this East Hampton house, a sleek white box with a tennis court and a pool, in a clearing on 10 otherwise wild acres. Lifestyle guru B. Smith has Alzheimer’s. Her husband has a girlfriend. Her fans aren’t having it. 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

It yields about half the calcium and vitamin C of broccoli per acre and none of the vitamin A, but it has three times the iron, phosphorus and potassium. Potatoes get a bad rap. They don’t deserve it. 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

The Imperial Valley is the largest producer of sugar beets in California, and this plant — the largest in the country — produces more sugar per acre than anywhere else in the nation. Quinceañera with baby fever 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

The Moscow tower plan fell through and was replaced by a more modest project: annexing six acres along the Ukranian border for a bank of video poker machines. Who in the hell is Felix Sater?! 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

Child’s place is on 35 acres, protected by thousands of acres of forest, lakes and ranch land. Jack Reacher Is Still Restless. But His Creator Has Settled Down. 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

He purchased about 11 acres of commercial property within the town’s limits. Kanye, Out West 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

The size of the Riviera, with 400 rooms and 24 acres, is more conducive to the party side of things. In Palm Springs, to Pool Hop Is to Time Travel 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

Outside there are over 80 acres of land, about 35 of which are a rolling meadow with sheep and a donkey. House Tour: Converted Barn in Erwinna, Pa. 2010-06-17T21:34:00Z

The four-month festival will see all 21 acres of the centre, including the Royal Festival Hall and Hayward gallery, taken over in celebration of what was a defining moment in 20th-century Britain. Skylon's the limit 2011-01-19T17:27:31Z

First developed in 1729, these 65 acres are considered the birthplace of the English Landscape Movement — not to mention the inspiration for New York’s Central Park. In Transit: Historic London Garden Gets a Makeover 2011-06-20T10:00:36Z

With its verdant seven acres, Madison Square Park is one of those oases of foliage and calm amid the concrete mania of Manhattan. ‘Prismatic Park,’ an Oasis of Art in Madison Square Park 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

Behind the tall wooden security fence in Ms. Offolter’s driveway hides an acre that is thrumming with life. How Much Would You Pay for a Houseplant? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

Last year Los Angeles began clearing and regrading a site covering nearly 2 acres at 1st Street and Broadway, in the heart of the Civic Center. Los Angeles public space is rambunctious again; let's dress it properly 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

It includes two chairlifts on Eagle Peak — west of the existing ski area — that will add up to 700 acres and 14 new runs, plus gladed areas with a 1,400-foot vertical drop. What’s new at ski areas around the Northwest and B.C. 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

On a mere two acres he raises organic vegetables, flowers, chickens, ducks, pigs, goats. A Long Island Farm Adds Classes 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z

The restaurant is part of Willows Lodge, a luxury hotel snuggled into five acres alongside the Sammamish River. Barking Frog: opulent menu, informal ambience 2014-01-24T01:34:08Z

But most of the MLB wines are produced by Plata Wine Partners, a Napa company with “access to over 25,000 acres of premium coastal California wine grapes,” according to the company’s Web site. Baseball team wines: A pitch that’s worth a swallow or spit? 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

For many years, Norris says, publishers relied largely on bookstores—with their knowledgeable staffs, public readings, and acres of display shelves—to introduce readers to lesser-known talent. Support and Defend: Tom Clancy's Legacy Lives On 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

He bought five wooded acres on the Black Horse Pike, then a main thoroughfare to the Jersey Shore, and cleared the land by hand. Storybook Land, Family-Run Amusement Park, Endures 2012-06-28T22:41:49Z

What’s great about staple crops such as oats, lentils, barley and, yes, corn and soy is that they produce huge amounts of nutritious, affordable food per acre. Perspective | Why small, local, organic farms aren’t the key to fixing our food system 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

The park’s 1.2 million acres are home to nearly 375 bird species, from the tiny hummingbird to the California condor, the largest bird in North America. Millions-year-old Grand Canyon became a national treasure 100 years ago 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

In the old days this had been the hacienda, set among acres and acres of grazing land. Memories of Mexico 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Joshua Tree Highlands Houses These modern cabins, spectacularly situated near the National Park’s entrance, each boast five private acres and are available to rent by the night, week or month. | Joshua Tree’s Artful Excursions 2014-04-11T12:59:34Z

The gardens are spread over 1,000 acres and also feature 20 indoor gardens. Jewels from ‘The Crown’: A costume exhibition at Delaware’s Winterthur Museum 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

But to experts, these deep pits, spanning acres of land, are the work of sophisticated traffickers. Egypt tries to stem flood of looted antiquities

The Sonoran Desert National Monument’s 487,000 acres are stamped with several clusters of mountains and hills, between which flat, vast expanses offer no respite from the beating sun. "Finding the bones was heartbreaking": What I learned about migrants picking up trash at the border 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z

The trees that now form a young canopy across the four acres are of species that are choice and deserve better recognition and general use. Leave it to a botanical garden to find beauty in a parking lot 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

The eight­-acre space is the most recent addition to the popular destination, which also includes a 30-­acre sculpture park, an indoor conservatory, and an amphitheater. Peek Inside the New Japanese Garden at Meijer Gardens 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Many first-time visitors simply happen upon this collection of rides and games on an acre of prime real estate on the boardwalk between Delaware and Brooklyn avenues. Rehoboth Beach’s Funland: A timeless treasure 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

A few minutes farther up the road is Tilden Regional Park; its 2,000-plus acres are crisscrossed with hiking trails and include a botanical garden and showcase farm. 36 Hours in Berkeley, Calif. 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Its 170,000 acres comprise grassland, forests, rivers, meadows, canyons and snow-capped peaks at the crossroads of three mountain ranges — at least, for now. At Three National Monuments, Quiet Trails and Questions About the Future 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

His brother Philippe manages the vineyards, approximately 200 acres in the Côtes de Beaune and Chablis, with a few farther south in the Mâcon. Burgundy wineries try to weather the storms: Hail, frost, rain — and Brexit 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

A wild tract spanning 6,000 acres and composed mainly of forest and impenetrable swamp, Hush Arbor was the site of the 19th-century murders of a number of slaves once owned by a Merrimon ancestor. Review | ‘The Hush’: Murder, madness, magic, betrayal and obsessive love 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Grant, 55, has roamed these acres since he was a boy. Every Plant Has a Story. You Just Need to Dig. 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z

I open the gate and 450 square feet turns into an acre, ready to welcome hundreds of varieties. The ground is cold, but the seed market is open for business 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

A college-style campus with 47 acres, it took police over an hour to clear. The school shooting that wasn’t: When a lockdown isn’t worth it 2014-02-17T21:00:00Z

The studio be developed on 288 acres south of Atlanta and include at least five soundstages as well as production offices. James Bond studio to open 1st US facility in Ga. 2013-04-29T11:26:09Z

Across Greece, grapes are grown and wine is made in just about every region including the islands, with about 152 million acres of vineyards planted mostly with indigenous varieties. Greek Wines Get Back to Their Roots 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

It’s close to 400,000 square feet, or about the size of two Walmarts, on 24 acres between downtown and the airport. Inside an eccentric mogul’s quest to save D.C.’s most distinctive buildings 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

In fact, 2,300 acres are dedicated to beginner and intermediate terrain, with wide, groomed runs and “predictable pitch” — otherwise known as easy terrain. These ski resorts with expert slopes are also trying to cater to families with beginners 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Like any old garden, the 2 1/4 -acre plot around Nancy Lawson’s brick rambler is layered with a history chronicled by its plants.  Beyond birds and butterflies, this garden welcomes all critters — even raccoons 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

A wealthy landowner, he used Down House, his property of 20 acres or so in England, for hands-on testing of his theories. From 25,540 Paper Fragments, How Darwin Himself Evolved 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

The ranch covers more than a quarter million acres—and much of the work is still done on horseback. Driving Through the Heart of Texas 2010-03-24T20:56:00Z

Green spaces are rare in Athens, but in the suburb of Galatsi, not far from my home, there’s a hilly park that stretches 63 glorious acres. My European Ritual 2014-04-18T19:59:27Z

In 1963, the association presented the house, and the 83 acres surrounding it, to the American people, and the Park Service has managed it ever since. Theodore Roosevelt’s Sagamore Hill Home Cries ‘Bully!’ 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

And Maryland officials say fires destroy about 4,000 acres a year in that state. Smokey Bear turns 70, still on mission to prevent wildfires

This independently owned inn — billed as the region’s first luxury resort — is an idyllic retreat set on 35 acres of landscaped gardens and manicured lawns. Check In,Check Out: Hotel Review: Allison Inn & Spa in Newberg, Ore. 2010-10-15T19:26:00Z

Neither Solitude nor Brighton is particularly large, but together they offer about 2,300 acres of skiable terrain, and Brighton’s share of it kept me busy all afternoon. A skier swaps a resort stay for Salt Lake City’s vibrant downtown 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

So far, for all its incoherence, it has given rise to two feature-length films, a loose collection of bands and acres of newsprint. How Islamic punk went from fiction to reality 2011-08-04T19:00:01Z

The third point of New England’s Melville Triangle is Pittsfield, Mass., where Melville bought a 1790s farmhouse on 160 acres in 1850. On the trail of ‘Moby-Dick’ in three New England towns 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

The memoir flickers to life at that home, a humble farmhouse on 160 acres of wheat fields outside Wichita. She Grew Up Poor on a Kansas Farm. Her Memoir Is an Attempt to Understand Why. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

Anthony sold his farm near Wall Street, but somehow secured the deed for 100 morgens of land, or about 200 acres, near Coney Island. Brooklyn’s Muslim Presence Goes Back Centuries. Here’s Proof From 1643. 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

It’s low tide and there are acres of exposed sand, rock pools and seaweed. Britain’s oldest roller coaster is ready to ride after a $30 million park makeover 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

Secluded on 360 acres, the estate sits surrounded by a wildlife and waterfowl refuge on Watts Bar Lake. A Tennessee Inn for Spring 2011-04-14T14:50:05.237Z

The council sided with Chappelle and other residents opposing the project, which would have been expanded to include duplexes, townhomes and less than two acres for future affordable housing. Dave Chappelle says he didn’t oppose affordable housing plan 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

Covering nearly 100 acres and with an initial cost of about £1.8bn, the aim is to create a vast cultural theme park encompassing theatre, dance, music, film and visual arts. This week's arts diary 2011-01-11T22:17:01Z

There, on 200 acres in southwestern Montana, in a glorious area girdled by mountains known as Paradise Valley, nature beckons and soothes. ‘Montana Story’ Review: A Domestic Drama in Big Sky Country 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

But let's start with the specs: The Clark is situated among 140 acres of rolling New England hillsides, of the postcard-perfect sort you might find on a 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzle. What museums can learn from architect Tadao Ando's Clark expansion 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

Located on five acres of land right along the Chama River, the lodge offers rooms in a large lodge as well as cabins. Who needs a railroad museum? You can ride these circa-1870 rails yourself. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Currently under construction, this indoor space encompasses more than four acres of undulating, glass-enclosed terrain supported by columns that the architects liken to ginkgo trees. Why Libraries May Never Stop Being People Places 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

The loss of Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 1937, hits particularly hard here in bucolic western Massachusetts, where the festival takes place on 524 rolling acres. Without Music, Tanglewood Is Empty, Eerie and Beautiful 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z

She put her money where her mouth is earlier this year by purchasing energy leases for more than 1,000 acres of wilderness near her home in Castle Valley, Utah. Terry Tempest Williams thinks, breathes and writes deeply in our national parks 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

It's a five-bedroom house on 4 1/2 acres in Sag Harbor on the island's eastern end. Brinkley puts NY house on market at $15.75 million 2010-07-28T17:25:00Z

In these troubled times, are we justified in granting £27m each year to this behemoth that squats on two-and-a-half acres at the heart of London, allowing it to pursue the highest of the high arts? The Royal Opera House: Welcome to the new people's palace 2011-03-06T00:16:48Z

The designers see "empty space," "dead industry" and "disconnected waterfront" as a prime opportunity to restore 93 acres of pedestrian-friendly urban space to the public. A model exhibition by Seattle Architecture Foundation 2011-07-01T23:04:38Z

Wandering freely on the vast set, about 12 acres, is not allowed, but we didn’t feel the slightest bit rushed. New Zealand’s Hobbit Trail 2012-10-05T16:25:35Z

The hall, which still hosts an ambitious summer series, is an open barn, set amid acres of woodland. John Cage Recital? Take the A Train 2012-08-08T15:24:32Z

And to the south, near Lake Calumet, in an area of shuttered mills where Chicago approaches wilderness, Big Marsh has lately opened as a public bike park and nature preserve carved from nearly 200 acres. In Chicago and Philadelphia, the Difference a Park Makes 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

In each case, increasing density from two units per acre to 20 units per acre resulted in about the same savings as the increase from 20 to 200. Stop climate change: Move to the city, start walking 2012-11-03T19:00:00Z

“The preserve is over 500 acres. It may not be any easier in there. They can fly off at any time. We don’t feed them and have them walk up to you.” First-time hunter vs. turkey: Thanksgiving dinner is on the line. 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

It’s also the location of 6,000 acres of marsh, meadow, ponds and woods full of roe deer, bee orchids, avocet, reed buntings and other threatened species. In northeast England, learning about birds of prey and their high-flying ways

For relatively little money, Mr. Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative, was able to acquire six acres of land overlooking downtown. Following the Civil Rights Trail 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

The husband-and-wife team has operated their winery in just this fashion since acquiring 70 acres off a dirt road here in the hills of the northern Willamette Valley a decade ago. The Oregon Trail 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

They persevered and now own about 20 acres, which they supplement with grapes bought from a friend. The Wines of Irouléguy, in French Basque Country 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

Wearing cargo shorts and a white graphic T-shirt adorned with Tupac’s face, he jauntily welcomes us to his family’s gargantuan 17 acre compound in the Florida Keys. How ‘MTV Cribs’ Rewired My Brain, and Maybe Yours Too 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

Surrounded by 12.5 acres including an olive grove and oak forest, the resort distributes its many amenities — including a hammam, yoga studio, gym, outdoor pool and 16th-century chapel — among many of the original buildings. In Europe’s Top Destinations, Hotels to Suit Your Wallet 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

The farm, on which he raised corn and soybeans, remains in the family, including 80 acres that Mr. Harnack preserved. Curtis Harnack, Writer and President of Yaddo, Dies at 86 2013-07-19T01:52:06Z

This, along with a lively arts scene, fresh local food and acres of serene farmland on its doorstep, makes Lund one of the most enjoyable Swedish cities to spend time in. Lund, Sweden: Viking roots, off the beaten track 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

It was just a little provincial park, after all, only five hundred acres. The Dread and Bewilderment of Walking in Circles 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

By Las Vegas’ standards, Lucky Dragon is a modestly sized property set on 3 acres just off the Strip. Las Vegas, Asian investors putting big money on Chinese tourism 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Then there's the immense land trust he manages for his extended family, 25,000 pristine acres on the island of Kauai that represents the last untouched inheritance of Hawaiian royalty. "The Descendants": Clooney's Oscar-worthy role as a Hawaiian dad 2011-09-14T00:30:00Z

The center opened its 4½ -acre Nature Explore Classroom last month but will keep the inside facility closed until public health experts lift the social distancing requirement. Cultural institutions reopen with a more hands-off approach 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

And the government has assigned protected status to 70 acres within the area, hoping to draw tourists seeking their Jewish roots. In Shanghai, Preserving Buildings Takes Work 2010-05-01T10:03:00Z

Many of the 1,000 or so bungalows, all in matching neo-classical style, were built with several acres of garden around them. Land famine threatens Delhi's colonial heritage of Lutyens architecture 2013-04-21T23:00:03Z

An airport in Hawaii reopened early Wednesday morning after a brush fire tore through at least 964 acres of land the day before, prompting officials to close and evacuate the air hub. Hawaii airport reopens after brush fire 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

Perched on West Penobscot Bay, with 22 acres of gardens and woods. If you go: Islesboro, Maine

Now, Hunter’s Point South Park has arrived with 11 acres of playgrounds and promenades. 3 Lush Parks Drastically Remake the East River Waterfront 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

When my grandfather died in 1989, the Great House and remaining two acres became the property of his second wife. ‘The Island Always Brings You Back’: Finding a Caribbean Home 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

It is in the news because the Forestry Commission is giving £94,000 from the English Woodland Grant Scheme to plant no fewer than eight new woods covering 50 acres in the grounds. One of Cumbria's hidden treasures is planting eight new woods 2012-12-19T17:21:12Z

And at more than 3,300 acres, Snowmass Mountain genuinely has great routes for every ability. In Colorado, Snowmass Village makes for a more family-friendly getaway than Aspen 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Spread over 90 acres, the mounds are one of the largest Middle Woodland sites in the southeastern United States. From Nashville to Tupelo on the Natchez Trace Parkway 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

Sprawling over 550 acres, only a few miles south of Fairhope, right along the eastern shore of Mobile Bay . . . it is exquisite. As the weather warms, pay homage to Bucky with these tart, sweet cocktails 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

Spread over almost 100 acres, connected by footbridges and underground passageways, layered like an archaeological dig, the property opened to the public for the first time this year. Anselm Kiefer Raises History’s Ghosts 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

Here you’ll find the Cloud Forest Biological Reserve, thousands of acres with trails and home to hundreds of species of mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds, including the endangered resplendent quetzal. Spring Break: Last-Minute Options for the Crowd-Averse 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

Now, with some plants already sold, the farm features about 2,500 plants on 2.5 acres on the Key Peninsula in a setting that Ketts said many customers refer to as “storybook.” Gig Harbor lavender farm hosts farewell festival (and sells u-dig plants for $2) 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

There, a statue of the goddess Osun was spreading her arms as if to welcome visitors to the 185 acres of dense forest dedicated to her. In Sacred Grove in Nigeria, Worship and Connection 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Much more pertinent are figures from each of the three great East German Junker families, with their palatial residences and thousands of feudally worked acres. Books of The Times: ?Forgotten Land? by Max Egremont - Review 2011-12-28T22:10:01Z

On the sunny day I toured, visitors were making the most of its acres of gardens. In England, a trio of stately homes illuminates a bygone age 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

It had no electricity until the early 2000s, after the national government persuaded the family that had owned the island since colonial times to sell 24 acres to its approximately 250 residents. You’re Going to Need a Smaller Boat: Island Hopping in the Grenadines 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z

And her patronizing schoolmates will learn that yes, there is a West big enough for one ranch family to have carved out a quarter of a million acres. Books of The Times: ‘The Son,’ a Novel by Philipp Meyer 2013-06-19T21:01:43Z

Last month, they harvested almost five acres, of both purple and white cane. Reviving a Crop and an African-American Culture, Stalk by Stalk 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

Today the Edward Lowe Foundation sprawls across thousands of acres of southern Michigan. The Birth of Kitty Litter 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

The vineyard now has six acres of nebbiolo, comprising seven different clonal selections, each a mutation of nebbiolo with subtly different characteristics. Leaving It All Behind for the Love of Nebbiolo 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

Two acres will not sustain a commercial operation, so Brenneman began looking for grapes elsewhere. Let’s open two: Dusty Baker wines now available around D.C. 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

The cemetery, its 478 acres almost the size of Prospect Park, was designed in 1838 as a paradise of flowering trees, tranquil ponds and meandering paths. A Museum Plot for Green-Wood Cemetery 2013-05-14T21:34:33Z

Programmers at these 52 verdant acres have taken educational inspiration from the Harry Potter books. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

What draws tourists and trekkers is Denali National Park and Preserve — about 14 million acres of wilderness to explore. Before the summer rush, a spring road trip through Alaska is just as beautiful 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Three hundred acres’ worth, some 60 miles outside the District, a place reputed to have a more promising deer-to-hunter ratio, and we were invited to hunt it. I shot a deer for Thanksgiving. Here’s why. 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

Yet there were greater acres of emptiness, surely. Novels about the Internet can still be compelling 2013-01-19T23:00:00Z

Mountain ranges, unusual rock formations, desert and wilderness found within its 800,000 acres offer a unique visual and sensory experience. Pick Mojave National Preserve over Joshua Tree: Twice the size, a quarter the visitors, all the beauty 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

“On the south edge of the city there used to be only acres and acres of peasant land on the opposite side of the river,” he said. Next Stop: The Poetry of Hangzhou 2011-04-08T18:55:00Z

The valley is home to more than 350,000 fertile acres, producing more than 40 commercial crops ranging from fruit, hops and wine grapes to vegetables and field crops. $99 Road Trip: A fresh and tasty Yakima Valley fruit loop 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

So he sat at home – now 300 acres of Kent farmland and a Queen Anne house in Hampstead, north London – and convinced himself he could work alone with Murphy. Gerry Rafferty obituary 2011-01-04T19:01:16Z

Following the war, what was called the Red Zone, a swath of 460 acres across the Western Front, was declared off-limits for habitation. 100 years later: Returning to World War I’s Western Front in France 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

The property occupies 5.4 lush, tropical acres and showcases an infinity pool. Seeking a Tropical Retreat? Head to Jamaica’s Montego Bay 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

The pair went on to double their hemp acreage and are growing the crop on more than 2,500 acres this year. For young farmers, hemp is a "gateway crop" 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

To find better snow, we’d by flying some 20 minutes or so into the mountains, part of the 2.6 million acres of public lands for which H2O has a permit to take clients. Explorer : A Sisterhood of the Snow in Alaska 2014-04-03T17:57:48Z

Four federal agencies — the Forest Service, Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service and Bureau of Land Management — administer more than 723 million acres of public land across all states and Puerto Rico. Few minorities visit Sequoia National Forest or the Sawtooth Wilderness. This man wants to change that. 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

It’s goal is to preserve several million acres, including public land and private land purchased from willing owners. Creating a home on the prairie as it once was 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

A boutique hotel with 11 private guest rooms, sitting on 100 acres of lush landscape of an old sugar plantation. Affordable, friendly Nevis offers the perfect site for a do-it-yourself wellness retreat 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Today, the grounds offer more than 50 acres of flowers and foliage. Now that spring is here, explore Richmond’s stunning garden trail 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Eight lifts provide easy access to 102 acres of skiing, which is helpful as, with a 375-foot rise, I found myself riding the chairs a lot. Searching for a Secret Ski Destination? Try Michigan 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

A conservation easement still protects about 930 acres under the direction of The Aspen Valley Land Trust and Pitkin County Open Space and Trails. Headquarters for John Denver foundation for sale 2013-04-10T16:42:08Z

In the 20th century, agricultural and transportation technology inspired many regions of Italy to move toward large-scale farming, planting acres of tomatoes, olive trees and grapevines to meet international demand. Umbria, Italy’s Best-Kept Culinary Secret, Is Budding 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

We have acres of empty offices, a blight of vacant blocks in our cities – so why not turn them into homes? Home truths: how the housing market is threatening affordable workspaces 2013-01-28T16:47:51Z

It boosts the total gladed areas to 55 acres developed in the past three years of the partnership. What’s new at ski areas around the Northwest and B.C. 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Nearly 150 acres of olive groves buffer the property where grandly proportioned rooms feature exposed stone walls and floors, and some include private gardens and outdoor soaking tubs. Across Europe, hotels that feel like home. Only better. 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

But given The Unpleasantness, there have been acres of stuff written about the very absence of celebration, all sufficiently lapped up for further acres of it to be produced to meet demand. The more dysfunctional the royals are, the more their fans love them 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

With 1 million pristine acres of wilderness and hundreds of miles of trail, Glacier National Park is an outdoor enthusiast’s dream. Enjoying Glacier National Park’s quiet season 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

As they fly down country roads, hundreds of acres of tobacco plants, green or bleached and plump in the summer sun, surround them in all directions. Working in tobacco fields can make kids sick. But they still need the money. 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

Rooms at this newish boutique hotel are in cream and grey with large beds covered in acres of crisp white cotton. Lisbon city guide: what to see plus the best bars, restaurants and hotels 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z

Similarly, Homewood Mountain Resort on the west coast of Lake Tahoe in California will add 750 acres of glades, accessible to groups of no more than 10 skiers. 9 Things Every Skier Should Know This Winter 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

SAT Grafting and mason bee workshops; pruning demonstrations; presentations on growing apples, fruit for a healthy diet, tours of seven acre Fruit Display Garden with antique apple trees, 8:30 a.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-02-24T18:13:19Z

When my father was a child, the estate was 42 acres, but when his parents divorced, he returned to the mainland with his mother and didn’t go back, or see his father, for 25 years. ‘The Island Always Brings You Back’: Finding a Caribbean Home 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

In southern Arizona, a wildfire on the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation was fully contained Thursday after charring more than 200 acres. Teams expect some containment of Arizona wildfire 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

A devastating blow was delivered when the Army Corps of Engineers dammed the Missouri River in 1953, flooding more than 150,000 acres at the heart of the remaining reservation. Land grab cheats North Dakota tribes out of $1 billion, suits allege 2013-02-25T19:43:00Z

Natural springs throughout the grounds’ 1,000 acres fed a hose that filled an outdoor tub. For Keioui Keijaun Thomas, the Body Becomes a Vessel 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

Located about a mile from downtown on 40 acres, Aspen Meadows has 98 Bauhaus-inspired suites, each with floor-to-ceiling windows and a wet bar with a sink and microwave. Aspen’s other million-dollar asset: Cycling 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

I love fishing these areas, around acres of kelp beds, where it drops off into deeper water. Tony Floor's Tackle Box filled with summer fishing fun 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

“Living Nature” details Potter’s later years in the Lake District in northwest England, where she eventually acquired more than 4,000 acres. She’s More Than the Creator of Peter Rabbit 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

Next I visited Kentucky Horse Park, which has 1,200 acres of museums, exhibitions, breed-and-discipline associations, show rings and race-and-event courses. It’s a new tourist-friendly era at Kentucky’s famed horse farms 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Perényi’s honesty, intolerance, and appreciation of all that makes gardening a joy—night, vegetables, dung, experimentation—make me forgive her everything. Even acres. A Gardening Book for Those Who Hate Gardening Books 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Braddock has 300 sprawling acres of industry of steel, if not more. Braddock's LaToya Ruby Frazier takes on Levi's and 'ruin porn' chic 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

A waterfront shrine situated on 32 acres, Saint Anne’s is a popular destination for religious pilgrims and tourists alike. A latecomer to the #vanlife party takes a 4,000-mile road trip in a pop-up camper 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Every Saturday, an eroded hillside explodes with color and sound, covering acres of gravel, rock, and mud with junk and treasure. Southern Journal: Trade Day 2011-07-06T21:50:00.733Z

Two miles away I walked into the Illini Union, one of the U. of I.’s acres of neo-Classical buildings, positively Roman in their scale. David Foster Wallace’s Peaceful Prairie 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

Jordan Winery, known for its award-winning cabernet sauvignon, recently introduced half-day hikes, held eight times a year, through its 1,200 acres of hilly terrain comprising vineyards, a garden, meadows and a lake. A Teetotaler’s Guide to Sonoma County 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

It would take days to explore everything there is to see and do in a valley with more than 90,000 acres of active farmland. Fresh produce, Sound views and more fill out a fun Skagit Valley day trip this fall 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z

And you could easily spend a day here, just south of Burlington, walking around its 45 acres, amazed, awed and amused, and still not figure it out. Critic's Notebook: The Art of Collecting Collections 2011-05-19T21:00:31Z

There she built a wicker furniture business and raised cattle on 2,000 acres. Patrice Wymore Flynn, Actress, Dies at 87 2014-03-25T15:23:04Z

The grand white house, complete with 60 acres and “a perfect red barn in the architectural style of Fisher-Price,” was already known as the Beekman Mansion. Books of The Times: ?The Bucolic Plague,? Josh Kilmer-Purcell?s Farm Memoir 2010-06-02T23:25:00Z

With 2.2 million acres to cover, it is impossible, of course, to absorb this vast and varied ground in one visit. Journeys: New Ways to See 3 Classic Parks 2011-07-01T17:00:00Z

And in the lower part of Manhattan, the World Trade Center — 16 acres of planned office buildings, subway stations, commuter railway lines and a memorial museum and plaza — still hasn't been rebuilt. What Took So Long? Why the World Trade Center Still Isn't Finished 2011-09-09T09:00:00Z

He owns 70 acres in North Carolina, where he went to school at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis: Seattle crowd was 'quite a shock' 2012-07-25T21:48:09Z

The classic natural appeal of the estate, long ago downsized to 840 acres including walled gardens, walking trails and falcon training, will remain untouched. In Europe and Canada, New Looks for Classic Hotels 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

Last year, the staff, volunteer and contractors manipulated 1,000 acres of forest habitat and set controlled burns to revive habitat on 535 acres, Cline said. Revamped wildlife refuge has a lot to offer 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

He was born in Santa Rosa, Calif., then a small agricultural town, and grew up on three acres there. They Have No Reservations (About Each Other) 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

On July 14 the remaining 150 acres were fully taken over by the city, which administers them through the Trust for Governors Island. Governors Island as Playground for the Arts 2010-08-13T00:29:00Z

Built in 1927 by heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, the property, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, sits on 20 acres of what many consider the most valuable land in Florida. Inside the fabulous world of Donald Trump, where money is no problem 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

It had belonged to four generations of the Tremayne family, gentlemen plant-enthusiasts; if you think your modest garden takes a lot of work, imagine hundreds and hundreds of acres of rarities. The Stunning Grounds, and Tragic History, of the Lost Gardens of Heligan 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

Saudi rice farmers could also get an angry reception in neighboring Mauritania, where the president has promised them nearly 100,000 acres of land on its northern banks of the River Senegal. Don’t censor the school-lunch blog 2012-06-15T16:15:00Z

Starting this month, Ted Turner Expeditions will offer travelers access to more than 1.1 million acres of private wild lands owned by the media titan. Today’s Travel News and Tips 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

We bought 30 acres in that same valley with an old wooden farmhouse on it. Melissa Lucashenko: 'If I live to be 100, I’ll never forget the first day I visited my daughter on that ward' 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

Gezira grows cotton, sorghum, wheat, and groundnuts across 2.5 million acres of rich alluvial soil close to where the Blue and White Niles join. Don’t censor the school-lunch blog 2012-06-15T16:15:00Z

They team up here with Mr. Cyrille, a drummer with acres of experience in the avant-garde. Jazz Listings for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:16:07Z

In all, the foundation, with the help of the Nebraska State Historical Society, runs a number of sites in Red Cloud and Webster County, including 612 acres of unbroken prairie grassland. Willa Cather festival returns to tiny Red Cloud, Neb. 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

If you reach a saturation point for all things water, Deep Creek is also part of Deep Creek State Park and situated near thousands of acres of other park lands. A visitor’s guide to Deep Creek Lake, Smith Mountain Lake and Lake Anna 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

It remains a green lung and its nearly 500 acres are spectacular in the spring and summer. Keeping a Distance, From Everything but Nature 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

In the 2016-17 winter, the area was estimated to be about 7 acres. Monarch butterflies in Mexico allow brush with fragile beauty 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

And acres of pristine land are turned into “resource development parks.” ‘Spinglish,’ by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Whistler Blackcomb is the largest ski area in North America with more than 200 trails across some 8,100 acres and terrain for beginners, intermediates and experts. Where to Go for Spring Break 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

This perfect art retreat is set in 33 acres of stunning gardens, with cacti standing like magnificent statues. 10 of the best off-grid adventures in Europe: readers’ tips 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

As part of the deal, the government set aside an additional nine million acres to enhance the country’s national park network. In Chilean Patagonia, Following a Track to the End of the World 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

Nestled on an acre of land were an assortment of fresh vegetables, fruit trees, a green house and a compost heap — the best soil, after all, is nurtured. The bourbon-infused blueberry compote on this airy no-bake cheesecake is a star in its own right 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Yet hundreds of millions of acres of public land are rarely used by this portion of the citizenry. Few minorities visit Sequoia National Forest or the Sawtooth Wilderness. This man wants to change that. 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

There’s just acres of privately held land, a whole lot of willing critters, and a shelf of pies baked by a gorgeous gal with a gun. Nothing like “Duck Dynasty”: My life as a female hunter 2014-01-31T00:00:00Z

Built on 16 acres of county land, the venue is run by the Strathmore Hall Foundation, a nonprofit organization governed by a 30-member board of directors. How a dispute with a handful of Strathmore ticket-sellers led to impasse with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, canceled concerts 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

Veritas is planting nine acres of new vines, with another nine planned for next year. High-quality Virginia wine may surprise some, but it shouldn’t 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

A Vital Farms laying hen spends most of her day outdoors, weather permitting, and is allotted 108 square feet of outdoor space, a standard that translates to 10 acres for 4,000 birds. How one company is trying to make ‘pasture-raised’ the new egg standard 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

Her father gave her the family farmhouse and three acres. Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends? 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z

It’s also gigantic — 6 million acres, far bigger than any national parks except for those in Alaska. Paddling through a painterly landscape in New York’s Adirondack Park 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

Fifteen acres of vegetables may be a good place to start, but it's just a start. Is farming with reclaimed water the solution to a drier future? 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

Ultimately they hope to return at least 100,000 acres to their natural state. Can Sand Valley Make Wisconsin the Next Golfing Destination? 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

They dreamed of retiring to a country spread, to a quiet home surrounded by acres of serenity. How to make Italian mozzarella in the U.S.? Step 1: Learn to milk water buffalo. 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

It’s great for kids, too: acres of open grounds, perfect for playing around. Sandringham is British royals’ much-loved country retreat 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

The festival, which Ferrell started in 1991, is in Chicago for the eighth year, taking up more than 115 acres and eight stages. Lollapalooza bringing dance focus to Chicago 2012-08-03T10:31:09Z

On an acre or two of land, he will devise a planting scheme of tens of thousands of individual plants representing dozens of named varieties. Ecological gardens are all the rage. But they also need to be pleasing to the eye. 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

If you're not in the mood for the main stage, here are 11 acts you can see across the 1,200 acre site. Glastonbury: 11 acts to watch 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

He discovers that the shooting was the 45th murder to take place in a single acre of land, Frenchman’s Bend, which he dubs the “murder capital of the murder capital.” Book World: ‘Murder, D.C.’ by Neely Tucker 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

The 35 hardwood bungalows, on 75 acres, were designed with the quiet mood of a Balinese resort in mind. These Are the Best Places to Travel in 2016 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

The Heath is a magical 800 acres of land in North London. Patti LuPone, From Broadway to the Open Road 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

What’s today acres of green space and athletic fields remained a grimy sprawl of parking lots and warehouses on decrepit piers. 3 Lush Parks Drastically Remake the East River Waterfront 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

So she bought it from the bank, along with the 80 acres she grew up on. America’s Pumpkin Queen Has a Request: Don’t Carve, Cook 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

The property they found — in an erstwhile hamlet named Juniper Level — had a comfortable suburban house on more than two acres. This collector-grower built an Eden of rare plants. Now he tackles the challenge to preserve it. 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

It sprawls over more than 80 acres, a landscape of ruined structures along a grid of narrow stone streets. Journeys: In Ostia Antica, Italy, Clues to Past Glories 2011-12-23T17:05:07Z

“Not even in death did we get our 40 acres,” Mr. Brown sniffed. Savannah, Both Sides 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

The tide rises and plucks gently at the edge of her garden, covering the track that leads to her house and making her plot an island; then the waters retreat, revealing acres of windblown cordgrass. Susan Cooper: a life in writing 2012-12-21T22:54:02Z

This book made me want to run out and buy 500 acres, just to have room to grow some of these specimens. 27 beautiful books to grace your coffee table ? or someone else's 2010-12-18T01:33:05Z

Her husband’s family owns acres and acres of land in Montauk, including the ranch, and she seems to live quite pleasantly on the ocean. 'The Affair' Recap: When 'She Said' Is More Believable Than 'He Said' 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

The expansion will add 60,000 square feet of classroom, rehearsal and performance space on the four acres to the south of the white marble arts center. Completion of Kennedy Center expansion still more than a year away 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

My parents retired from a small town south of Boston to the village of Patagonia; they had purchased 20 acres of ranch land outside of town. Two Cities, Two Countries, Common Ground 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

Early the next morning I arrived at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, nearly 11,000 acres of grassland owned by the Nature Conservancy and managed by the National Park Service. Buffalo, the Pawnee and an Old Story on a Trip Across the Plains 2012-06-22T16:48:50Z

To leaven the intensity of our yoga and meditation classes, we toured the acres of Yogaville’s grounds, replete with wooded walking paths. Who knew nirvana was tucked away in Virginia’s back roads?

He and his wife came to Argyle in 1983, when they bought the 140 acres, 40 of them tillable, that made up Slack Hollow Farm. For These New York Farmers, Harvest Time Means High Times 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z

If this show leaves you wondering who will pick those acres of tomatoes in Mr. Trump’s walled-off future, some farm operators are wondering the same thing. Review: ‘American Crime’ Fixes on Migrant Dreamers in the Fields 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

But Biden’s fans, unlike Trump’s, seem far less likely to landscape his name in large letters across acres of farmland or erect a 14-foot steel cutout of his likeness on their lawn. Is there such thing as a Joe Biden superfan? 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

The plan: Each Indian citizen or head of household would be granted over a hundred acres. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z

This patch of hillside was the last of 13 acres planted with approximately 20,000 vines. Can Maryland produce an iconic red wine? One maker is determined to find out. 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

Namely, weather and vandalism damage to the sculptures, which are on 10 acres of open land in Joshua Tree.  California's 'at-risk' cultural landscapes include Watts Towers 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

The title of the exhibition, “Lamentations,” evokes an essentially lost world — lost birds, lost glaciers, lost acres of wetland — but for Ms. Freeman, it’s also about the urgency of change. ‘You Can’t Stand in Louisiana and See a Glacier’ 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

The sweet spot was Big Bay Cay, a deserted island of no more than twenty acres. How the famous swimming pigs of the Bahamas came to be 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z

From a peak of about 45 acres in 1996-97, the size has been on a downward trend. Monarch butterflies in Mexico allow brush with fragile beauty 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

I live on a farm, on about 600 acres of land in the woods. 'Bad guy' Luis Guzmán has fun being evil in 'Ana Maria in Novela Land' 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z

Two centuries ago, on 15 bucolic acres overlooking the south shore of Martha’s Vineyard, farmer built a simple cottage, a barn, and a stone larder for milk and cheese. Sir Evelyn and Lady de Rothschild's Gracious Hideaway on Martha's Vineyard 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

The bountiful beacon is a small part of the tribe's 50,000 acres of farmland, the majority of which is leased to non-Indigenous industrial farmers and ranchers growing corn and wheat and raising cattle. Envisioning indigenous food sovereignty as "a whole ecosystem" 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z

The museum project was given 38 acres by a developer to use as part of a “Celebrate Virginia” tourism and shopping complex in Fredericksburg. Who Will Tell the Story of Slavery? 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

“Wheatfield — A Confrontation” involved planting and tending two acres of wheat on the Manhattan landfill that was later to become Battery Park City. Review | Neglected visionary Agnes Denes altered our landscape with her art. At 88, she’s finally getting her due. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

“Why do we need four acres of what Frank Gehry called an open-air room?” she asked. With groundbreaking, elusive Eisenhower Memorial moves from dream to reality 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z

It’s home to the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, an epic preserve of more than 14,000 acres that the horses call home. On Virginia’s Chincoteague Island — all this and ponies, too 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

The history of agriculture alone deserves a deep dive since it gives us an idea of how far we’ve come in terms of how much we can grow on a single acre of land. Super Storm Sandy wiped out some restaurants for months but one midtown pizzeria served days later 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — It’s been 10 years since L. Douglas Wilder, the nation’s first elected black governor, unveiled a plan to build the United States National Slavery Museum on 38 acres here. Tax Bills Imperil Slavery Museum 2011-07-20T23:03:20Z

There’s also a pool, children’s play area and a secret arbour within the 20 acres of grounds. French châteaux: 10 princely stays at affordable prices 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z

In fact, it can be downright tedious: acres of wall space jammed with photos and film posters, all punctuated by dim projection rooms displaying bits of film. Wild architecture makes German cinema come alive at LACMA 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Law planted eight acres that first year, with chardonnay, vidal, seyval blanc, cabernet sauvignon and cabernet franc. Jim Law of Linden Vineyards: The Virginia wine industry's oracle marks 30 years

These few acres of land — arguably the most important piece of real estate in Western civilization — were the ancient center for politics, religion and commerce. Seeing ancient Rome: The things that were Caesar’s 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

The partnership between Storm King and Governors Island is curious, yoking 500 acres of rolling, manicured hills to a much smaller plot of patchy lawns and decrepit buildings. Art Review: Soaring Nods to Industry, Camping on an Island for the Summer 2011-06-02T21:43:30Z

It was developed in the 1960s by an Italian firm that purchased 10 acres along the Potomac River where a small ivy-covered restaurant, the Water Gate Inn, had operated for years. Does the Watergate Hotel need a younger, sexier scandal? 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

It's part of nearly 2,000 acres that the group preserves on the barrier islands. Captiva & Sanibel Islands, FL 2010-03-11T20:37:00Z

It occupies 140 acres of woodland and open pasture stretching across a hill that rises behind the museum. Perspective | Sculpture parks are a great way to see art during a pandemic. Here’s why some are better than others. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

By some estimates, Indigenous farmers out-produced European wheat farmers in the 17th and 18th centuries by a margin of three to five times per acre. Indigenous food sovereignty requires better and more accurate data collection 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

LAMBERT’S COVE, Mass. — James Taylor was 22 when he bought 175 acres of woods here with the proceeds from his first record deal. Carly Simon and Her Family, on Martha’s Vineyard 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z

We live on two wooded acres and, until recently, we let our chickens have the run of the place during the day. Animal happiness matters. But how do we know what that is? 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Known for acres of antiques, memorable restaurants, and unique shops, this 6-mile stretch has everything girls dream of. Girls' Getaway: New Orleans 2011-01-02T07:20:05.170Z

At nearly five acres, the gardens complement the museum’s mission by giving visitors a chance to smell and touch many of the botanical ingredients involved in perfumery. A Perfume Devotee in the Land of French Fragrance 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

To be considered a true glacier, it must be at least 25 acres. USGS: Glacier’s glaciers melting slowly, for now 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Imperiled Legacy DJENNE-DJENNO, one of the best-known archaeological sites in sub-Saharan Africa, spreads over several acres of rutted fields near the present city of Djenne in central . African Art Is Under Threat in Djenne-Djenno 2012-08-02T12:00:00Z

Belle Isle Park, Detroit Belle Isle is a large island park of almost 1,000 acres, situated in the Detroit River, a striking setting. Footsteps: Jewels of Olmsted?s Unspoiled Midwest 2011-09-02T18:18:14Z

It offers 25,000 acres of farm land donated for fee hunting options. Potholes Reservoir region filled with lots fishing and hunting activities 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z

Johnson purchased a small lot when he started work on the Glass House in 1945, but the parcel grew to 49 acres and became a laboratory for artistic expression. An appreciation of Philip Johnson’s Glass House by Lee F. Mindel 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z

The 2,400-square-foot home sits on about two grassy acres, which also include a swimming pool and a rose garden. Remember the creepy house from ‘The Silence of the Lambs’? Now it’s a vacation rental. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Today, Carmel Valley is still home to many cattle ranches, some encompassing thousands of acres. The Wilder Side of Carmel 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

At its height, 3,000 formerly enslaved residents lived on 200 acres. 8 Places Across the U.S. That Illuminate Black History 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

After lunch, stroll through Belfast’s Botanic Gardens, 28 acres of green lawns and trees near Queens University. What to Do in Belfast, Northern Ireland 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Each family would get an acre of land. How Frank Lloyd Wright Tried to Solve the City 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

Pancake flat, richly detailed but overstuffed, it floats a dense jigsaw puzzle of five bespoke acres above the East River on a quarter-mile-long platform. 3 Lush Parks Drastically Remake the East River Waterfront 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

Yet rather than focusing only on what is dying and lost, both films offer messages of hope, profiling people who have helped stop, animal by animal, acre by acre, the pillaging of wildlife and land. ‘Racing Extinction’ and ‘This Changes Everything’: How Films Market a Harrowing Message 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

So I stare through the slats up the long, winding drive and acres of garden. Charlotte Church: my private life 2012-10-05T21:59:00Z

The 72 acres of land includes 22 buildings, woodlands, hills and a pond. Hunger Games village up for sale 2012-05-22T06:50:27Z

“I’m thinking about 40 acres and a mule. I’m thinking about even the past two years, in which systems have not worked out for Black folks.” Tyler Mitchell: From Glossy Magazines to a Mega Gallery 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

Last year, Cannon Michael left over 100 acres of ripe cantaloupes unharvested. Study finds farm-level food waste is much worse than we thought 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

He had begun buying new vineyards in the 1960s when land was cheap, eventually amassing a total of 850 acres of vineyard land. Here’s to the other Mondavi brother 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z

Today, the string of four groups of small islands totaling 211 acres is a National Wildlife Refuge, home to the largest colony of nesting seabirds in the contiguous United States. The Farallon Islands Are Off Limits to Humans — But Not Wildlife 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Today the lake has 65 miles of shoreline and covers 3,900 acres, with an average depth of 26 feet. A visitor’s guide to Deep Creek Lake, Smith Mountain Lake and Lake Anna 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

But when you have a small cave — which the one home to that scorpion spider is by Belizean standards — in the middle of more than 50,000 privately owned acres, access is an issue. Beneath the surface — caving and diving — Belize is breathtaking 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Propped up in the corner of his office are architectural sketches of plans for the 40 empty acres across the street; they include housing, bars, restaurants, and an amphitheater. The Jacksonville Jaguars Stink. That Won't Stop the Party in the Stands 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Since it was established in the 1930s, the duck stamp has generated more than $1.1 billion for conservation efforts, including the preservation of roughly 6 million acres of wetlands, according to the service. Hunting theme no longer mandatory in US duck stamp contest 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

Sickened by the ravages of hide hunters, he protected 230 million acres of public land during his presidency, including a stunning parcel of North Dakota Badlands. This North Dakota Bike Trail Is Stunning. Just Hope You Survive It. 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

High This 4,200-square-foot house was built in 1991 on 10 acres comprising three adjoining view lots that ensure complete privacy. High & Low | Peterborough, N.H.: ?Our Town? Is Yours, Too 2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

The arc is constantly reshaped by wind and waves but generally occupies around 3,000 acres of land, surrounded on three sides by the waters of Lake Erie. Top 10 US mid-Atlantic national and state parks 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere in Vermont, the Topnotch Resort & Spa on 120 wooded acres in Stowe reopened last summer after a $15 million investment. Update: What’s New at Ski Areas? 2013-12-17T21:19:48Z

The interior is sumptuously appointed, but there are no great artworks, nothing to elevate the pointless acres of paneling, plush and gilt. In a Quiet Corner of Italy... Trieste 2011-04-29T19:35:37Z

Buildings on the grounds, which span more than 100 acres, might have to be adjusted to create more studio space. Jasper Johns Isn’t Done Yet 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

The design presented several engineering challenges, including an expansive top floor that sprawls over 35,000 square feet without any visible supports — nearly an acre of art uninterrupted by columns, according to Ms. Diller. ArtsBeat: Eli Broad, at Art Basel in Miami, Focuses on Los Angeles 2013-12-06T16:41:00Z

His verbs suddenly aren’t planted an acre away from his nouns. William T. Vollmann’s ‘Last Stories and Other Stories’ 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

Slovak Tokaj is one of the smallest wine regions in the world, according to local tourism organizations and wine producers, with only 2,241 acres. In Slovakia, a Wine Region Waiting for the Spotlight 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

“It’s a busy time to be going,” says Glenn Morris, who raises cattle and crops on 425 acres a couple miles away. For the people of Lyles Station, Ind., a trip to the African American Museum lets them witness their legacy 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

Today, by contrast, the scale of production is far larger, and it isn’t uncommon for growers to tend hundreds or thousands of acres. Working in tobacco fields can make kids sick. But they still need the money. 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

We’re up at his family’s camp, a hundred and some acres up a  mountain. When I learned to hunt 2013-01-06T01:00:00Z

We are surrounded by thousands of acres of open land, but the grand wild turkey of south-central Pennsylvania has made itself extremely scarce, which makes perfect sense three weeks before Thanksgiving. First-time hunter vs. turkey: Thanksgiving dinner is on the line. 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

The Arsenale, whose 120 acres account for a large chunk of Venice’s historic center, is jointly owned by the City of Venice and the Italian Navy, which still maintains an active base there. As the Biennale Expands, Locals Ask, ‘Whose Venice Is It?’ 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z

In Colorado, the Rocky Mountain Arsenal herd of 81 bison, confined to 2,600 acres, rebounded this spring after about 18 bison were removed in December. Arsenal bison return _ but limited space to roam 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

At their center lies Mort Lear, a revered children’s book author and illustrator, “the King of Kid Lit,” who has been living in prosperous seclusion on seven acres of prime Connecticut real estate. In Julia Glass’s new novel, a famous children’s author leaves a mess in his wake 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

The complex is set to sprawl over three hundred and seventy acres when it’s completed. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

A mix of federal, private, state, county, city and tribal lands line the 300,000 acres on both sides of the Columbia. Spring wildflowers add beauty on tour of Columbia River Gorge 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

Today, the 25 acres of planted grapes yield up to 5,000 cases of wine–Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Chardonnay, to name a few–per year. ForbesLife Castles: A Hollywood Mogul's $60 Million Malibu Paradise 2012-10-19T14:00:00Z

Thousands of firefighters were still working to contain the wildfires, which had already burned more than 200,000 acres and destroyed 5,700 structures, and killed more than 40 people. After Fires, Napa and Sonoma Tourism Industry Is Getting Back on Its Feet 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

The client’s 50 private acres, in Ketch Harbour, Nova Scotia, are now connected to the outside world by a new road. Alexander Gorlin Builds a Dramatic Seaside Home in Nova Scotia 2014-01-16T05:00:00Z

Part Lewis Carroll, part Brothers Grimm, its eight and a half acres of playgrounds are geared to specific ages and abilities. Transforming Tulsa, Starting with a Park 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

My grandfather had managed to keep the original house, the Great House and two acres. ‘The Island Always Brings You Back’: Finding a Caribbean Home 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

Hundreds of plantations, most covering just a few acres, crowd the coffee belt, though it’s likely none offers as comprehensive a tour as ultra-premium growers Hula Daddy. 36 Hours in Kailua-Kona 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

The History Connection, formerly known as the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, last used eminent domain about a century ago to acquire several acres of earthworks 100 miles south of the Octagon site. A Push to Move the Golf Course Atop a Native American ‘Stonehenge’ 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

He lives in a beautiful home—two old conjoined horse barns on 85 acres—in Lutherville, Maryland. Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank And His Underdog Horse Farm 2012-09-07T13:00:00Z

Glencarlyn Park is nearly 100 acres, with wooded trails and a stream. As summer gets underway, a look at this year’s 10 best U.S. cities for parks 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

So-named because of its black soil, the 211.5 acres of protected common land is wild and loamy, a place where you can still, on occasion, see bats. London, South of the River (Before ‘Brexit’) 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Set on nearly two acres, there was something for everybody. From Blight to Bright Lights in Memphis 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

When Phillip Hart bought 42 acres here 20 years ago on a set of steep, knobby hillsides, it seemed like a fine place to put a vineyard. A Tale of Two Vineyards 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

You can expect a little vertigo at first: There are many characters at work in these superimposed plots, and the same few acres look disorientingly different in each period. Review | What was it like to live in a world both more formal and more brutal than our own? 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

Last month, wildfires claimed 44 lives and more than 200,000 acres in Northern California. Fighting wildfires is a greater test of endurance as warm weather lingers 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

Sixty five acres on the coast of North Carolina were purchased by Mamie Reels Ellison’s great-grandfather in the aftermath of slavery. ‘Silver Dollar Road’ Review: Black Land Loss Is Still Happening 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z

In 1992, he planted four and a half acres of sandstone terraces, primarily with white grapes, and produced his first vintage in 1998. The Wines of Irouléguy, in French Basque Country 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

And while "The Blacklist" doesn't deserve a place among TV's great dramas, it does afford Spader, a three-time Emmy winner, the chance to devour acres of scenery. Inked-in bets and a few penciled-in ones in Emmy's drama acting races 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

The bales formed part of a newly finished four-acre pilot area foreshadowing the full evolution of an adjoining 62 acres of rolling grassland and sylvan creeks next to Route 355. In Montgomery County, she is reinventing the public park 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

But they have identified approximately 5 to 15 likely acres on the farm. The Oregon Trail 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

And also in Jamaica, Round Hill Hotel and Villas recently doubled the size of its kitchen garden to two acres and offers twice-weekly farm-to-table dinners. In Transit Blog: A Farm-to-Resorts Movement 2013-12-19T18:00:12Z

But with 14,000 acres of water and 180 miles of shoreline, I thought I might at least be able to fake it. My formerly adventurous life 2012-07-13T23:00:00Z

Our first stop was Bedrock Gardens in Lee, N.H., where two miles of paths link 20 acres of cultivated gardens with woodland and meadows. During the pandemic, a new appreciation for botanical gardens blooms 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

Through the picture windows in the hut’s enclosed back porch are the Gore Range, home of Vail Mountain Resort, thousands of acres of wilderness and a bevy of wildlife, from black bears to marmots. An equally great way to hit Colorado’s slopes: Without the snow. Here’s how. 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

So what would Smokey say now when a few careless seconds with a pen allowed President Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to remove protections from two million acres of precious American wilderness? President Trump, Please Read ‘Desert Solitaire’ 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

SAT Treatment Plant tours, guided nature walks through 40 acres of restored habitat and open space, music, refreshments, all ages welcome, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Community calendar 2011-09-21T23:35:04Z

But over time, the acres of empty factory space proved too tempting for graduates of Eindhoven’s prestigious Design Academy, an institute that is widely recognized as the country’s design source. Next Stop: A Dutch Factory Town, Now a Design Center 2011-07-29T19:32:48Z

I made the drive countless times over the 25 years my wife, Linda, and I owned the log cabin that sat in the middle of 60 acres bisected by the Sucker River. Imprint: My Upper Peninsula 2013-12-04T20:26:39Z

Set in the Arenal Volcano National Park, the camp shares 62 acres with its sister properties, Nayara Gardens and Nayara Springs, all connected by suspended footbridge, or golf cart, if you must. 5 New Standout Safari Camps 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z

The main attractions will be the grounds, with slave quarters, workshops and 250 acres of former sugar and rice fields. Antiques: A Restored Louisiana Plantation and Its Lifeblood 2013-07-25T18:56:22Z

Belle Meade Plantation in Nashville, Tenn., which also did not return emails for comment, describes the “136 enslaved workers” who used to inhabit the once 5,400 acres of land prior to the Civil War. Disturbing wedding trend: Getting married at a plantation 2014-01-05T16:00:00Z

Now in its second year, Just So is a mini festival for mini festival goers with music, art, cinema and dance in 65 acres of ancient woodland. 10 days out for kids this summer 2011-07-22T12:19:04Z

The state, which has the largest proportion of organic farm acreage in the country, also had the largest damage of those affected by this summer's heavy rains, with 7,000 acres of farmland under water. Small farmers in New England are starting to rebuild, but climate extremes are here to stay 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z

Jonathan Thompson of High Country News has pointed out that alfalfa makes up half of the acres that farmers in the dry Western states are irrigating. Dairy, drought and the drying of the American West 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z

The potential demolition of the sweeping home on more than 2 acres set off a firestorm in the architectural community. Demolition on Hold for Wright House in Phoenix 2012-10-03T23:06:38Z

The Agua Caliente Reservation covers approximately 32,000 acres in a checkerboard pattern, including 6,700 acres within the Palm Springs city limits, collectively making it the town’s largest single landowner. Palm Springs beyond the poolside: lonesome hikes, alien-inspired architecture and a poignant art museum 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Musicians took full advantage of Doe Bay's 30 acres of sun-dappled woods, lazy meadows, rocky beaches and breezy bluffs, all of which served as settings for impromptu, al fresco jams-turned-singalongs. Review: Doe Bay Music Festival lives up to its reputation as one of the best of its kind in the Northwest 2010-08-16T21:40:00Z

Though Nymans is surrounded by acres of forest, its gardens are highly manicured. The Bloomsbury Bohemians in the British Countryside 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

A Sugar Baron’s Scattered Art Collection The 19th-century sugar tycoon William Hood Stewart ran a plantation in Cuba with thousands of acres and hundreds of slaves. Antiques: A Sugar Baron’s Scattered Art Collection 2013-06-20T21:52:26Z

We snowed in the entire roof of a parking garage at the Minneapolis airport, five acres. Hollywood's winter weather man 2010-12-30T06:00:00Z

We stayed just outside of Port Douglas at the Thala Beach Nature Reserve, an ecotourist lodge and magical place on 145 acres of rain forest on an undisturbed peninsula just south of town. Down under, mother and daughter learn to see each other in a different light 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

I acquired some leases and bought some producing wells from Getty that gave me access to about 1,200 acres on top of this formation and farmed in some other land for drilling. Birth Of A Wildcatter - How Harold Hamm Got His Start 2012-12-06T15:00:00Z

From Tony’s deck overlooking hundreds of acres of corn, I can see now this peaceful scene isn’t everything it appears to be. Iowa exudes a decency that even politics can’t undo 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

Forest Service partnered for the “Healthy Forests Initiative” that resulted in an additional 21 acres of gladed terrain on Bald Mountain. What’s new at ski areas around the Northwest and B.C. 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Four hundred and fifty acres of former ironworks converted to a public park. Germany’s Ruhr valley beckons with converted coal mines and a unique industrial heritage 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

It sits on nearly an acre of land. Thomas Mann house by midcentury great J.R. Davidson: L.A.'s next big teardown? 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

The next morning we explore Lost River State Park, a gloriously quiet spread of about 3,900 acres. In West Virginia, my family tried to connect with the land — and disconnect from our devices 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

About 6.7 million acres of forests are lost to fire each year — a fraction of the amount during the 1940s when the campaign began. Smokey Bear, nearly 70, gets a millennial makeover 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

It takes a crew of eight to maintain the 500 acres at Storm King Art Center, where art lives in the landscape. Who Mows the Lawn at Storm King, New York’s Largest Sculpture Park? 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

Six more acres followed the next year, seeded with grass and forb suited to the microclimates within the site, and there have been several more such planting projects since. Who Mows the Lawn at Storm King, New York’s Largest Sculpture Park? 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

REISTERSTOWN, Md. — The house that Cal built sits on 25 acres of land north of Baltimore, close enough for a short drive to the city but far enough to escape the rest of the world. Cal Ripken is moving on, literally and figuratively 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

The former favors “the continued planting of corn if you were a farmer that grew a lot of corn in the past, and does nothing to encourage diversification of acres,” he says. Unearthed: A rallying cry for a crop program that could change everything 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

The Santa Fe Railyard, a bustling downtown shopping and dining district, occupies about 50 acres, including stores ranging from Molecule, which specializes in contemporary design, to REI, the outdoor recreation and sporting goods company. In Santa Fe, City, Sky and History 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

Spread out over two acres, this luxury boutique hotel, done in a pristine white palette with bright blue accents, was designed with a nod to traditional Key West conch-style architecture. In Old Town Key West, a Hotel with Artsy Aspirations 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

In 2012, they planted six acres of local grasses and wildflowers to attract more endemic birds and insects. Who Mows the Lawn at Storm King, New York’s Largest Sculpture Park? 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

If you can picture acres and acres of Kentucky bluegrass, subtle, rolling hills, barns 100 yards off from the roads. Q&A: The Kentucky Derby as a ‘Rite of Passage’ 2014-04-08T19:50:26Z

This 1890s farmhouse is across the road from the Buttercup Farm Sanctuary, with its miles of nature trails and more than 500 protected acres. House Tour: Stanfordville, N.Y. 2011-08-18T21:55:44Z

FRI-SAT Local perennials, trees and shrubs at 22 acre gardens, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Community calendar 2012-05-30T20:57:04Z

He wasn’t referring to his surroundings: the open-air theater of PS21, set in the middle of 100 acres of orchard, meadow and woodlands in this Hudson Valley town. ‘You Are the Show’: A Hudson Valley Outpost of the Avant-Garde 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

In 1850, there were an estimated 150 glaciers of that size, compared to 25 today that are least 25 acres in size. USGS: Glacier’s glaciers melting slowly, for now 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Experts typically head straight for the thousands of acres of backcountry hemming the resort’s boundaries. 12 Months of Skiing, From Chile to China 2012-12-07T17:07:45Z

It occurred to me the other day that the museum shouldn’t just add more trees and benches in return for the quarter acre. Natural History Museum’s Expansion: Part Dr. Seuss, Part Jurassic Park 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Fires rage before acres of black earth, and skeletons lie tangled in darkness; a single prisoner, stranded in the snow, looks goggle-eyed at a pair of blackbirds on a barbed-wire fence. The Survivor of Auschwitz Who Painted a Forgotten Genocide 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

Last season the resort became the nation’s third largest ski area when it added 300 acres of north-facing intermediate terrain to the 3,700 acres it already had. Canyons Ski Resort, Park City, Utah 2011-12-09T19:25:27Z

This mammoth market district, just north of the city’s downtown, has 43 acres of restaurants, art galleries, entertainment, specialty shops and cafes. It’s Winter. Let’s Go to the Farmers’ Market! 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

The property is 26 acres, and situated in an area steeped in art world history. At The Ranch in Montauk, Plenty of Room for Art and Horses 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

In 2003, 22 acres were transferred to the National Park Service and 150 acres to the Trust for Governors Island.  On New York’s Governors Island, the living is mellow and the water is every shade of blue

The studios now include nine sound stages, a 100 acre back-lot and one of the largest underwater filming tanks in Europe. Royal party opens Potter studios 2013-04-26T12:57:51Z

Think, too, of the Dior New Look of 1947, which, with its acres of skirts and tiny waists, served as a direct riposte to the privations of World War II and the Depression. This Is Not the End of Fashion 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

Along the way, the signs of a bumper apple harvest were everywhere: acre upon acre of apple trees laden with fruit, stretching down into valleys and up the sides of the low mountains. ‘We respect the ghosts’: A spirited cider-tasting guide to Adams County, Pa. 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

And why there have been acres of newspaper coverage devoted to Mr and Mrs Canoe, every single word of which I've read. Canoe Man and Who Needs Fathers? | TV review 2010-04-01T05:45:00Z

A peaceful, beautifully landscaped cemetery sprawling across 124 acres on the north side of Dublin. In Ireland, Chasing the Ghost of the Rebel Roger Casement 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

With 500 acres of verdant exhibition space, Storm King Art Center, in New York’s Hudson Valley, is uncommonly positioned to execute large-scale earthworks conceived by Dennis Oppenheim but never fully realized in his lifetime. Storm King to Present Earthworks by Dennis Oppenheim 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

I gather from “Housing Density,” a timely and thought-provoking show now at the Skyscraper Museum in New York, that the density of Tudor City is 463 people per acre. Everything You Think You Know About Housing Is Probably Wrong 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

Orchardist Bob Duncan grows hundreds of varieties of fruits and vegetables on less than an acre using innovative, natural techniques. Victoria, Canada is a small city with a big farm-to-table scene 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

There are 14 rolling acres of planted crops including a small vineyard, trees and livestock like ducks, geese, sheep and chickens. D’Artagnan Enters the Farm Business 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

He oversaw 60 gardeners and 60 greenhouses on 150 acres overlooking the Hudson River. Untermyer Gardens in Yonkers Is Being Tended Once Again 2012-07-19T21:45:31Z

Forty percent of the area’s 56,000 acres are owned by the state and protected from future development. Six U.S. budget vacation destinations 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

He has publicised these findings in documentary films and spread them in acres of news coverage. Red sky in the morning 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Ridge is definitely one of the best and has been a leader, converting its more than 200 acres of vineyards to organic certification in both Sonoma County and its Monte Bello estate. Five Wine Books to Give This Holiday Season 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

At his direction we soon arrived at the nicest 10 acres I’d seen in a while, our home for the night. Your Vacation Mission? Find This Stolen Horse 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

“White Beech” is about Ms. Greer’s efforts to restore ecologically some 150 acres of often heavily forested land, a former dairy farm, in southeast Queensland, Australia. In ‘White Beech,’ Germaine Greer Takes an Ecological Journey 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

It frees them from acres of proscenium arch and orchestra pit. Silent Opera do away with the orchestra 2011-02-24T22:45:00Z

His Favorite Room In 2009, Mr. Yovanovitch, whose primary residence is in Paris, bought a chateau surrounded by 90 acres of woodland that was in the same family for centuries. A Tour of Designer Pierre Yovanovitch’s French Chateau 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

From the wide terrace, at an elevation of 1,800 feet that is well above the fog line, you can look out over acres of vineyards and tree-covered hills. These California wineries serve up scenery with the sauvignon 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

The 19th-century chateau, on 200 acres with vineyards and orchards, houses eight guest rooms. 8 Hotels Offering More Family-Friendly Options 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

Ben Merz is a partner at Coastal Vineyard Care Associates in Buellton, Calif., in the heart of the Santa Barbara wine region, which manages more than 4,000 acres of vineyards. For Farmers of Wine Grapes, the Pandemic Sows Doubts 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

The museum, which encompasses nearly 100 acres, aims to challenge the traditional concept of what a museum can be by creating a mutually symbiotic relationship with the surrounding desert. Tucson Is a City That Encourages You to Explore 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

That tens of thousands of acres of such forest are destroyed each day worldwide seemed inconceivable. Explorer : In Search of ‘Wild’ Costa Rica 2014-04-10T20:09:26Z

They planted lima beans, sugar beets and, as an afterthought, 10 acres of garlic. Don Christopher, Who Turned Lowly Garlic Into a Staple, Dies at 88 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z

“I was born in a forest,” said Mr. Lagerfeld, referring to his German childhood and also to the 15 hectares, or 35 acres, of greenery at a later home in Brittany. Fashion Review: A Woodland Fable 2013-01-22T18:18:43Z

A decision, Edward Kurtz, 86, whose Mennonite grandparents once owned and tilled the now 36 vacant acres where Penn National plans to build, says is troubling. Pennsylvania is rolling the dice with a casino in the heart of Amish Country 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

Similarly, only a minuscule number of Black people benefited from the Homestead Act of 1862, under which the government gave away 246 million acres. A Landmark Reckoning With America’s Racial Past and Present 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

She described Cusk as a "peerless narcissist" and the book as "acres of poetic whimsy and vague literary blah, a needy, neurotic mandolin solo of reflections on child sacrifice and asides about drains." Review of 'blah' memoir wins Hatchet Job prize 2013-02-12T20:01:11Z

North Jutland is home to the most amazing theme park, set in acres of beautiful forest. 10 of the best UK and European theme parks: readers’ tips 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

Flora Farms combines style and sustenance on 10 acres featuring an open-air restaurant surrounded by vegetable beds. What to Do in Los Cabos, Mexico 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

Dubbed Villa Bond for its clean lines and sleek look, this rectilinear two-story Spanish escape sits on nearly ten acres with sweeping views of the island. Capri, Italy : Stunning Villas, Castles, and Modernist Retreats to Rent This Summer 2014-05-05T04:00:00Z

“We survived these global events in the past,” said Ms. Kee, whose school is set on 315 acres about an hour and a half drive from Toronto. The Boarding-School Boom 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z

Out here, among the Tualatin mountains and overlooking the Willamette river, lies Forest Park, more than 5,000 acres of urban woodland. The Decemberists: The changing of the seasons 2011-01-06T21:30:00Z

Set on 74 acres deemed a World Heritage site by Unesco, the property offers spectacular scenery at every turn. Tour an Early-18th-Century Estate in Italy 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

The first thing I noticed was its immensity: even with only 5 of the 65 acres complete, it felt roomy. Architecture Review | Brooklyn Bridge Park: Brooklyn Bridge Park Opens First Phase of Large Project 2010-04-01T22:47:00Z

Together, the rooms create a claustrophobic maze, though they more pointedly resemble cabinets of curiosities with jumbles of books, dead animals, laughing masks, acres of rugs and eccentric objets. ‘Knives Out’ Review: Murder Most Clever 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

The third annual Kid Rock’s Chillin’ the Most Cruise departs on April 26, and culminates with two days on 55 acres of a private island in the Bahamas renamed Redneck Paradise for the occasion. Rock Cruises, Bright Spots for the Cruise and Music Industries 2012-03-30T14:51:16Z

For Sergei, however, after four years living in a single room with an exacting mother, the Royal Ballet School, housed in a stately hunting lodge on two thousand acres of parkland, was an exhilarating adventure. Sergei Polunin’s Dance Mom 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

With only 83 acres of the island high enough for human habitation, cars are rare. Ken Cuccinelli’s post-politics endeavor: oyster farming 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

It has acres of shadowy corners to explore and – for the moment at least – Gillian Flynn is the best guide around to this mysterious, dangerous territory. Gillian Flynn: chronicler of the midwest's dark side 2013-03-24T00:06:17Z

With more than 7 million acres of forest, the U.P. is a natural when it comes to fall colors. Beautiful Fall Foliage Drives 2010-10-26T22:00:00Z

Both mountains — Gros Piton and the steeper Petit Piton — along with nearly 7,200 acres of land and sea surrounding them, make up a Unesco World Heritage Site. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in St. Lucia 2011-11-10T16:37:37Z

The Adirondacks encompass a huge park of 6 million acres, as large as the state of Vermont, according to the Adirondack Council, a nonprofit group supporting the park’s ecological health. Autumn in the Adirondacks is a mountain do 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

So is Jason Salvo, who grows vegetables on 15 acres of Snoqualmie River Valley farmland east of Seattle, in Duvall, Wash. Restaurant Closings Inflict Collateral Damage on Other Businesses 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

The studio opens onto a moon terrace, which in turn leads to trails that loop through the surrounding wilderness, 75 acres of an estate entirely owned by nature. 2 Art Havens in the Hudson Valley Offer Nature Indoors and Out 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

Turner’s upper-floor bedroom overlooks a garden that once spanned nearly three acres and included a pond where he kept fish that he caught in a nearby river. An Effort to Save J.M.W. Turner’s Country House 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

This wild-looking breed’s independence makes it ideal for the 90 acres of overrun wooded land about 130 miles southwest of downtown Washington that is Autumn Olive Farms. Chefs’ latest darling: An endangered species of pig that feeds from the forest 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

The exhibition in the Arsenale is so rambling it is bound to contain one interesting thing among acres of second-rate installations. How to survive Venice 2013 2013-01-02T14:56:10Z

The capital’s oldest garden, Koishikawa Kourakuen Garden, offers more than 15 acres of seasonal flowers, cherry trees and wisteria next to the Tokyo Dome. Celebrating ‘Platinum Week’ in Japan 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

They tend to open onto acres of space where the tenor saxophonist can improvise and conjure. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

"Our maze is 10 acres and it takes about an hour to get through it, longer at night," says Brett Jacobs, of Bob's Corn and Pumpkin Farm in Snohomish. Peak season for pumpkin patches, corn mazes 2011-10-19T22:29:03Z

Vegetables account for 4 million of those acres, which means that our new diet regimen would require us to about double what we’re farming now. We need to feed a growing planet. Vegetables aren’t the answer. 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

The 36 hectares, or 89 acres, that spill down to the shoreline were the site of the North Head Quarantine Station for 150 years. A Window Into a Harsh Chapter in Sydney’s Past 2012-11-28T00:07:21Z

Harriman immediately bought 4,300 acres and built the world’s first chairlifts on Proctor and Dollar hills, smaller peaks near “Baldy,” that fall. Near Idaho’s Sun Valley, choppers give intrepid skiers an all-access pass 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

There’s enough in these 800,000 acres for a lifetime of exploring, the tangible result of a landscape that has borne witness to shallow sea and coastal plain and volcanic upheaval. Along the Rio Grande, a Hot Spring and a Warm Welcome 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

We should all be less stressed in a lockdown because of the acres of time, but this is offset by the pile-up of financial and health worries. How should you deal with stress in 2020? First, ditch the meditation 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z

In pursuit of expansion, Mr. Elias said the company recently bought a farm near Santa Barbara, which was set to be zoned for 10 acres of pot fields. Pairs Well With Weed 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

More than 60,000 acres of farmland form the backdrop for a day of exploring, with opportunities to soak up bite-sized chunks of state history, and enjoy hiking trails and bike paths. Worth the Trip: Olympia’s food producers prosper at new downtown market 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

None are more imposing than the Palais de Justice, or central courthouse, a ghastly mash-up of Baroque, classical and Assyrian motifs that sprawls over more than six acres of the capital’s heart. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

“Don’t even try asking me anything about ‘if Farmer Brown has six acres of land, how much fencing does he need?’” he said. Rex Reed Bangs a Gong on the Mediocrity of Modern Life 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

Today 15 rides are spread over 20 shady acres, including a carousel, old-fashioned cars that meander along a track, a train that chugs around the park and a small Ferris wheel. Storybook Land, Family-Run Amusement Park, Endures 2012-06-28T22:41:49Z

The other major arms of Vision ’22 include community engagement and bringing the Pillow’s artists into local schools, as well as a plan to renovate the campus, 36 buildings on 220 acres in the Berkshires. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Expands Residencies for Choreographers 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

At 133 acres, the zoo hosts a diverse array of animals, including koalas, zebras, gorillas, and elephants. Ways to Celebrate Thanksgiving, Old and New 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

At its completion in ten years, it will occupy nearly 19,000 acres and serve up to 200 million travelers a year with six runways. Istanbul to unveil new airport, seeks to be world's biggest 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

After the interview, we drove to a spot on a ridge that overlooks the national park, more than half a million acres of forest. Richard Powers Speaks For the Trees 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

The 301 acres, filled with 88 original buildings, plus 500 reconstructed Colonial homes, shops, taverns, and public offices, allow guests to escape the worries of modern times. Surprises Abound in Williamsburg 2010-06-18T16:17:00Z

In fact, Blacks lose an estimated 30,000 acres of land per year. Congress likely to legalize hemp in farm bill. It should also heal USDA’s history of discrimination 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z

The musician is believed to have penned a number of songs for the classic Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album at the 1.5 acre property. John Lennon's mansion up for sale 2012-08-14T13:11:33Z

“Forty acres and a mule” was the promise to formerly enslaved people during the First Reconstruction, recognizing that their success would require an economic base. It’s not enough to disavow the Klan: Racists and Republicans have years of experience disavowing Klan, but supporting racist politics 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

So the desert cattle raiser, Prince Sultan Al Kabeer, bought a 48-year lease to grow wheat on 22,000 irrigated acres on the banks of the Nile, north of Khartoum in Sudan. Don’t censor the school-lunch blog 2012-06-15T16:15:00Z

Early last summer a pickup truck veered off Highway 39 east of Pasadena, burst into flames and started a blaze that scorched 1,000 acres of forest. This is California in the era of Trump 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

In recent weeks, Republican lawmakers have laid the groundwork for giving away hundreds of millions of acres of federal land. Fair Trade: A Museum Expansion for an Open Park 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

Sure, potatoes produce about 15 million calories per acre to broccoli’s 2 million, but how about individual vitamins and minerals? Potatoes get a bad rap. They don’t deserve it. 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

They said that their 15 unconventionally inhabited acres in the Topanga Canyon area near Los Angeles, formally known as the Sandstone Foundation for Community Systems Research, was about understanding society — and setting it free. John Williamson Dies at 80; Founded Sandstone Retreat 2013-05-04T22:36:13Z

The eco-resort sits on 145 acres, on a private headland beach, with coconut trees, two rock-rimmed outdoor swimming pools and nature trails. Down under, mother and daughter learn to see each other in a different light 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

LEWISTOWN, Mont. — The Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge spans more than a million acres along the Missouri River in central and northeast Montana. Plan fall visit to Montana for drama of Missouri Breaks elk rut 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

Stay here: The traditional Shangri-La Hotel Hangzhou, with 40 acres of lush grounds, is steps away from West Lake. Summer Travel 2014: Escape From Your Business Trip 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Standing Stone, which is now owned by Hermann J. Wiemer, a longtime Finger Lakes producer, has six acres of saperavi, which it says is the largest planting outside of Georgia. 15 Wines Under $15: Inexpensive Bottles for Stay-at-Home Drinking 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

Alongside a full program celebrating world music, the festival is presenting more than 100 projects, including performance art, installation and videos across 14 acres. In Toronto, Looking to the Future in an Abandoned Park 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

His thousands of acres aren't pastoral, so much as the backdrop to the hulking modern machinery that drives his small empire, one fed by genetically modified seeds that he aggressively sells to other farmers. Review: 'At Any Price' doesn't register 2013-04-24T22:52:09Z

The fruits of science are on gorgeous display whenever you enter these 250 acres in the Bronx. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

It’s meant to represent the 1,500 acres the family has farmed for a century. Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z

At one point, I climb a tree to get an angle for a photo and can see all too clearly the thousands of vertical feet and acres of sketchy terrain between us and Palisade. Colorado adds a challenging new mountain biking adventure 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

He keeps all 100 acres of this beautifully reverent destination―from spartan Civil War headstones to patined angel statues to ornate mausoleums―pristine. The Personalities of Natchez 2010-04-07T20:54:00Z

Our site, on the edge of a canal, had an expansive view of the park and its 3,125 acres of marshlands, forests and beaches. This secluded state park on the Chesapeake Bay offers an alternative to summer’s crowds 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

But she points out that in the late 1800’s nearly 6,000 acres of premium coffee flourished in East Hawaii until sugar, a k a King Cane, took over as the more profitable crop. 2010-01-15T22:44:00Z

When the filmmakers need a bridge between interviews or courtroom scenes, their constant fallback is footage of the salvage yard, acres of junked cars scattered across the green Wisconsin hills. Review: ‘Making a Murderer,’ True Crime on Netflix 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

Property Values: Nearly an acre, the plot boasts a blue-tiled infinity pool. Extraordinary Homes for Sale Around the World 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

And for a window into the man himself, Darwin's diligent and personal correspondence with close colleagues is full of acres of revealing material about his motivations, beliefs and fears. The private life of Charles Darwin 2012-11-30T08:00:07Z

Overlooking the white sands of Rendezvous Bay, the Aurora Anguilla Resort & Golf Club has hundreds of acres to explore. 7 New Escapes in the Caribbean 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z

A baroque mansion, built in 1,000 acres at the turn of the 17th century, it was designed by a playwright – the building is like a stage set. Yorkshire versus Ibiza: which is the perfect holiday? 2013-03-10T06:29:03Z

Think if you had an acre of these things; think how much money you could generate. In search of the world’s hottest pepper 2013-04-10T22:08:00Z

Favorite Room: After looking for land in the area for 20 years, Mr. de Lisle and his partner, Ralph Dennis, who live mostly in Mill Valley, Calif., bought a kit house on six acres. A Tour of Designer Charles de Lisle’s Rustic Cabin in Sonoma 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

In 1998 they won a competition, sponsored by the city of Tokyo, to build a vast housing project on 75 acres of landfill. Arakawa, Artist Who Tried to Halt Aging, Dies at 73 2010-05-20T05:15:00Z

A rustic log home on five forested acres features Native American art in a setting well-suited for it. Woodinville garden tour full of beautiful ideas 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

The property sprawls over 5 acres and features more than 100 rooms, a staircase inspired by the sweeping stairway in the film "Gone with the Wind," and multiple flower-cutting and gift-wrapping rooms. Spelling mansion sold to Formula One heiress: report 2011-06-15T05:25:25Z

Instead, Whippman visits the Downtown Project, the 60 acres near Las Vegas that Hsieh aimed to turn into “one big party” with no distinctions between “working and playing.” Why Are Americans So Anxious? 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

The acres of swagged and tasseled curtains draping the décor — it’s like Joan Rivers’s apartment up there — show no evidence of moth holes. ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ Retains Its Luster 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

His knowledge is so deep that he has rendered two hand-drawn maps of nearly every acre. Among the Majestic Trees in Congaree, Slipping Into Silence 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

The vegetable garden is a crescent-shaped fifth of an acre, ringed in wire deer fence and sloping in a way that reveals the raised growing beds. Inn at Little Washington offers peek at its carefully concocted grounds 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

Called the Rio Tinto Center, the museum sits on 17 acres, terraced along the foothills of the Wasatch mountain range in Salt Lake City. In Transit Blog: In Utah, a New Home for Natural History 2011-11-03T21:09:30Z

At the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, there are 15 gardeners each day tending to the garden’s 250 acres — there are 54 total, working on staggered shifts throughout the week. At New York’s ‘Museums of Plants,’ the Art Is Blooming Lonely 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

Two miles away is Gum Tree Farm, a hundred acres where she lives and raises the flocks that provide every scrap of wool in her store. This shepherd has found her niche in the farm-to-fashion movement 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

In May, the Municipality of Quito declared 45,500 acres of this forest a “natural protected area”; that reserve envelops the heart of Mashpi, 2,891 acres that belong to Roque Sevilla. T Magazine: Send in the Clouds 2011-11-18T13:08:53Z

Once this was farmland, but the monastery, which is home to the Benedictine Sisters of Madison, helped coordinate efforts to restore the wild prairie and oak forests that now encircle the 130-plus acre property. For travelers, monastery stays offer peace and quiet, regardless of faith 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

It had 10 ski trails up to a kilometer long on 50 acres with a 1,000-vertical-foot drop. Ready, Set, Ski! In China, Snow Sports are the Next Big Thing 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

In England, the idea of public space tends to be acres of paving slabs with nothing on them. Portrait of the artist: Nigel Coates, architect 2010-10-11T21:29:00Z

The Four Arts Botanical Gardens, just over the Royal Park Bridge on the island of Palm Beach, is a tiny, densely cultivated place of less than half an acre. Like Joseph Stella’s Paintings? You’ll Love These Botanical Gardens. 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

On five acres here, the 28-room Hotel Rodavento is undergoing a renovation to be completed in December to add a spa and eight additional suites in the forest. Family Lodging for Part-Time Nature Seekers 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

So Post started looking at other properties — more as a bargaining tactic than any real desire to move — and stumbled across a beautiful old house on 25 acres overlooking Rock Creek Park. Marjorie Merriweather Post wanted her house to be a museum. Ellen Charles made it happen.

The family owned 5,800 acres outside the city, land that is now the village of Oak Brook, Ill., and they would host polo tournaments, skeet shoots and fox hunts there. Michael Butler, Who Brought ‘Hair’ to Broadway, Dies at 95 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

It will cover less than 25 acres and cost about $200 million. In Transit: Hello Kitty Theme Park Planned in China 2011-05-25T17:00:43Z

In 1849, a white Louisiana slaveholder and preacher, William King, freed his slaves and journeyed with them to Ontario, where he bought hundreds of acres of land. At Ontario Underground Railroad Sites, Farming and Liberty 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

This one, just about three acres, was different. Zen and the Art of Australian Winemaking 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

With 8,171 acres of terrain and more than 2 million annual skier visits, the Canadian powder playground is also one of the largest and most-visited ski areas in all of North America. How to ski (and stay) at Whistler without breaking the bank 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

The structure’s massive footprint would provide 192 acres of floor space, and a ground-to-roof atrium would house a vertical garden to add lush greenery to the arid setting. See New Plans for a Self-Sustaining Vertical City in the Sahara Desert 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

The museum is set on 230 acres of woods and hills in Montgomery County. Much anticipated Glenstone expansion to open Oct. 4 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

In some places in the Ecuadorean Amazon, a single hectare of forest — about two and a half acres — contains more species of trees than all of North America. T Magazine: Send in the Clouds 2011-11-18T13:08:53Z

The mayor refers to the Mansions as “20 acres in the middle of the city.” ‘Brick Mansions’: Action takes off, but plot hits wall 2014-04-24T20:09:41Z

The company has already secured contracts to use 1,850 acres. A battle of green against green in this Texas community 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

The sweet spot was Big Bay Cay, a deserted island of no more than twenty acres. How the famous swimming pigs of the Bahamas came to be 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

I asked a large farmer of my acquaintance, Ray Gaesser, who grows corn and soy on several thousand Iowa acres, what he would do if subsidies were means-tested at something like $400,000. Perspective | Why do taxpayers subsidize rich farmers? 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Although smaller than the Moorish castle and Pena Palace, the structures here — Romantic palace, Roman Catholic chapel and multistory gazebo, dotted across nearly 10 acres — were luxurious. Outside Lisbon, a Verdant World of Castles and Palaces 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

It’s a secluded patch of 50 acres, laden with wildflowers, tall woolly bushes and deep ponds, nestled up against Camel’s Hump, a hiker’s paradise frequented by outdoorsy types in Teva sandals and wraparound hydration packs. Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Live in This Perfect Place? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

It’s also prime time for wildlife at the Seney National Wildlife Refuge, where 95,238 protected acres are home to about 200 species of birds, plus beavers, river otters, frogs and black bears. Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a world apart 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Opened as a hotel in 2012, the property is much more than its interiors, though; some 17 acres of gardens border the buildings. Across Europe, hotels that feel like home. Only better. 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

In contrast, the further concentrations of households at higher densities — even above 100 per acre — while helpful, produced less dramatic results. Stop climate change: Move to the city, start walking 2012-11-03T19:00:00Z

Siring and adopting sons as needed to accomplish his goals, Duquet changes his name to Duke and builds a company capable of sawing down hundreds of thousands of acres. Annie Proulx’s long-awaited, spectacular new novel ‘Barkskins’ 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

The lodge’s parent company, Wilderness Safaris, is reforesting more than 66 acres of habitat of the critically endangered gorillas, hiring mostly local employees and selling only locally produced items in its gift shop. Where Sustainable Travel Is Headed in 2017 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Because Thoreau insisted on the preservation of wildness, we have millions of acres of public lands to explore — and the sanctity of Cape Cod and Katahdin to defend from profiteers and bandits. Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

Many of the fires are so large that they are known, technically, as “megafires”—the designation applies to fires that consume a hundred thousand acres or more. Sunday Reading: California 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z

The home features eight bedrooms, five bathrooms and four “reception” rooms on 19 acres of property. The 'Downton Abbey' Manor Can Be Yours for $6 Million 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

Gandhi left his wife to live at Kallenbach’s house in Johannesburg for a period, and Kallenbach donated to Gandhi the 1,100 acres that became their communal Tolstoy Farm in 1910. Books of The Times: Appreciating Gandhi Through His Human Side 2011-03-29T19:55:27Z

Angola, which is a private prison where Robert was incarcerated for 21 years, with several plantations that were consolidated into one plantation that is 18,000 acres of land. "Time" filmmaker on families affected by incarceration: "Being together is a type of resistance" 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

It costs $200 per night to stay in the potato, which is located on 400 acres of farmland 25 miles southeast of Boise, according to the Idaho Statesman. Giant Idaho potato prop converted into Airbnb rental 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

He told me that there were three mosques on the island, which is only 40 acres. 1,000 Islands, 2 Worlds 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

“How am I going to do this? It’s an acre in size, and another acre on the 106th. So I created the classes to train the staff — busboys, waiters, dishwashers, secretaries.” The Accidental Wine Educator 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

More than 22 million acres of U.S. forest burned each year at a time when the government sorely needed the timber. Smokey Bear, nearly 70, gets a millennial makeover 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

Among the most prominent is Point Bridget State Park, an expanse of 2,850 acres about 40 miles from Juneau, near the terminus of the city’s road system. Rich in Surprises and Secrets, There’s a State Park Waiting for You 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

The hunt that followed took place on Turtle Mound Buffalo Ranch, 27,000 acres of rolling pasture on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. The Thanksgiving Myth Gets a Deeper Look This Year 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

I’m in Carvins Cove Natural Reserve which, at more than 12,000 acres, features 60 miles of mountain bike, hiking and equestrian trails. In Roanoke, Va., discovering a gateway to outdoor adventure 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

And their mock-monumental presence serves as an aptly critical introduction to the many acres of imperial and imperialist art in the galleries beyond. America’s Big Museums on the Hot Seat 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

For Ray Gaesser, who does wake up worrying about those 6,000 acres — the ones he farms in Iowa — it’s a harder calculation. One way to get Big Agriculture to clean up its act 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

The historic property, originally 400 acres, was purchased in 1931 by financier Andrew Mellon for his wife. Bunny Mellon’s Oak Spring Farm Is on the Market 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Congress soon authorized funding for a wildlife refuge, and in 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt added 3,680 acres to what was now called the Wichita National Forest and Game Preserve. One night in the nation’s first big-game wildlife refuge 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Seventeen miles away in Potsdam, he built a one-story rococo castle atop a slope, eventually adding more than 700 acres of manicured parks and buildings to a place he would name Sanssouci, French for “carefree.” Heads Up: In Potsdam, Germany, a Time to Celebrate 2012-01-27T18:02:32Z

Corn, soy and wheat together occupy about 230 million acres in the United States, and there’s another 100 million for other commodity crops. We need to feed a growing planet. Vegetables aren’t the answer. 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Every time I go, I’m drawn past the space’s other works — corralled filing cabinets; a classroom setting; an eerie scarecrow figure; acres of broken mirrors — to Dabls’s “Iron Teaching Rocks How to Rust.” Detroit’s unexpected — and unexpectedly moving — outdoor art scene

To someone who owns acres of orchards or a honey operation, this might seem laughable. House Tour: Roxbury, N.Y. 2011-01-13T22:23:18Z

They only like local food if it is grown on less than an acre. A life in writing: Les Murray 2010-11-22T00:05:00Z

Glen Meadows, the retirement community, sits on 300 acres of rolling Maryland hills that also includes Notchcliff Farm, where Thomas works and where several horses are retired from racing. ‘We’re like their grandparents’: When retired people hang out with retired racehorses 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

On nearly 300 acres in the D.C. suburbs, the Glenstone Museum seeks to weave art, architecture and nature into one seamless experience. Looking for art alfresco? Head to these U.S. sculpture gardens — or find one near you. 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

Spread over 125 acres hovering above the eastern end of North Terrace, the park is a peaceful haven from the buzz of the city, with an impressive selection of native and foreign flora and fauna. Essential Adelaide guide: top sites and festival attractions 2013-02-28T07:00:03Z

Installed on six acres of cleared land on a gently sloping hill overlooking downtown Montgomery, the memorial is in the form of an open-sided pavilion. A Memorial to the Lingering Horror of Lynching 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Fish & Wildlife Service tells her story through its 28,000 acres of wetlands, forest and open fields. Finding Traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

The main location is a sunny, scenic, acre and a half between the Center for Urban Horticulture and Union Bay. UW program seeks to grow better farmers and consumers 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

Chardonnay also is king among California white wine grapes, with an amazing proliferation in vineyards over 50 years, from just over 300 acres in the early 1960s to more than 95,000 today. U.S. Riesling production ranks second worldwide

An acre of land was set aside for the guests to grow vegetables and flowers while staying here, so they would feel at home. Beverly Hills Hotel marks 100 years of swank 2012-05-07T13:13:12Z

The historic farmhouse, built before 1800, and a guest cottage rest on “50-something acres” and the property is “just gorgeous,” Faith Rhodes, principal broker and owner of Rhodes Real Estate, told the Bennington Banner. Alec Baldwin and family purchase a retreat in Vermont 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z

Jimmy is delighted to counsel Ricky as he strives to turn his 11,000 acres of New Mexico real estate into “America’s Vatican City.” 'Better Call Saul' recap: Jimmy attracts more buzz than bucks 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

In Washington state, more acres burned in one day than firefighters usually see all year. Western wildfires spread with the help of seasonal winds 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

The home sits on nearly two acres and features equestrian facilities as well as spectacular mountain and ocean vistas. Inside Singer Robin Thicke’s New Malibu House 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

He put down $5,000 on a mouse-infested cabin and 27 acres, then sold it a few years later to finance his purchase of the 47-acre former dairy farm, visiting occasionally from Los Angeles. Mark Ruffalo, Actor, Embraces Anti-Fracking Role 2011-12-02T22:58:40Z

“When we started our company five years ago, our customers used to look just like us: rural homeowners with five to 10 acres of land,” said Kate Whelley McCabe, the chief executive. Maple Syrup Making Also Boomed as a Pandemic Hobby 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

Summon your urban Arnold Palmer by shooting golf balls through a block of skyscrapers at Aroma Spa & Sports, a 150-yard driving range surrounded by acres of green netting. What to Do in Koreatown, Los Angeles 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

“I went from living with two roommates in a basement apartment in Brooklyn to sharing 20 acres with my partner, and I get to write and draw and travel for a living.” She Could Have Told Him to Take a Hike, but Adventure Awaited 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z

The seven acres of grass and woods surrounding the Sandy Spring Museum provide a fine location for sculpture that engages the environment. Review | In the galleries: Washington Sculptors Group shows a playful nature 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

Encompassing more than 400,000 acres of land in Vermont, the Green Mountain National Forest has more than 40 hiking trails for you to enjoy. In Transit: Touring Vermont Before Settling Down 2011-06-27T17:54:07Z

At 1,017 acres and covering approximately 50 city blocks, Golden Gate Park has something for everyone. Finding peace in San Francisco’s storied Golden Gate Park 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Combined, they comprise some 6,100 acres of grassy knolls, valleys and steep hillsides. Rural residents strike back at Lucas film empire 2012-02-11T19:16:04Z

In the terrace it’s a tiny bright green succulent named Sedum acre that creeps along the lines of fine gravel between the stones. Why I don’t need Roundup in my garden 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

It spreads across 26 acres, which are monitored by freely-moving peacocks. Photos: Inside the historic Indian hotel were Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas wed 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

The 90 acres of Wrest Park in Bedfordshire are unarguably magnificent, probably Britain's largest "secret garden", with surprises around every wooded corner. 'Secret garden' Wrest Park reopens after restoration 2011-08-01T23:05:17Z

A “growing number of Texans” are selling the family farm, the Texas Tribune reports, causing the state to hemorrhage small and midsize farms and ranches at a rate of 250,000 acres per year. Are we in the final days of small farms? 2014-01-03T15:27:00Z

At 67, he is a preacher, and lives with his wife, Betty, on 50 acres near Ms. Marshall’s farm. Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends? 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z

The place was surrounded by 14 acres of fields and woods. Capsula's Bowie obsession pays off 2013-10-31T14:12:32Z

But a Black family, the Freemans, managed to accumulate several thousand acres of waterfront land just north of town. Savoring the old-school charm of Carolina Beach, one of North Carolina’s oldest beach towns 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

That said, the 90 acres of wildflowers, trees, a ravine and a waterfall will transport you to the country. 36 Hours: Central Park, New York 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

I was hiking in the backcountry among giant sequoias in Sequoia National Forest and Yosemite National Park last summer, while hundreds of fires burned millions of acres across the state. The Quiet Strength of an Old-Growth Forest 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

To make all this fantasy a reality, Disney more than doubled the size of Fantasyland, to 21 acres from 10 acres. Inside Disney’s New Fantasyland 2012-12-21T16:55:27Z

Six years after he bought Ramme, Munch moved closer to town when he bought 11 acres at Ekely, a former agricultural nursery, on the outskirts of the city. In Norway, Seeking Munch’s Brighter Palette 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

Ashford Castle, set on 350 acres in Ireland’s County Mayo, unveiled a spa in the final phase of its two-year restoration. Resort and Hotel News: A Spa in Ireland, an Inn in the Catskills 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Encompassing a 19th-century estate on 20 acres of wine country, Six Senses Douro Valley recently debuted in one of Portugal’s most beautiful regions. Now Is the Time to Visit Portugal’s Wine Region 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

Fondomonte told the state government in a letter in February that it grows about 7,000 acres of alfalfa in Arizona. Arizona is evicting a Saudi alfalfa farm, but the thirsty crop isn’t going anywhere 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z

Consider Cedar Moon, tucked inside a state park on seven acres of farmland near the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. The New Generation of Self-Created Utopias 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

Tubman’s father was granted 10 acres of land when he was manumitted, or freed from slavery, around five years after his former owner Anthony Thompson’s death in 1836. Archaeologists Solve a Decades-Old Harriet Tubman Mystery 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

The hundreds of acres that Stanley purchased had once belonged to the Native Americans whose culture these women tried to honor. 'Ladies of the Canyons' tells the story of extraordinary women who blossomed in the Southwest 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

And originally this two-story house did indeed sit atop a plot of land — a little over 32 acres — that Hamilton purchased here and named the Grange. Museum Review: Alexander Hamilton?s Renovated Grange - Review 2011-09-15T22:35:12Z

It will also expand the sculpture garden, one of the largest in the country, to 12.7 acres, which provides the opportunity to add new works to the space. The Walker Art Center Plans a $75 Million Renovation for Its 75th Anniversary 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

President Trump signed the lands bill in March, conserving millions of additional acres of wilderness, expanding national parks and creating new national monuments. How Congress nearly ruined a man’s quest to visit all national park sites in one trip 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

The only bit of land left in this city is there, in the centre, where government officials are sitting in houses surrounded by three or four acres. Land famine threatens Delhi's colonial heritage of Lutyens architecture 2013-04-21T23:00:03Z

That means that acres upon acres of land are devoted to growing crops or livestock feed, instead of food for humans. How you can help save the planet — and yourself — simply by substituting beans for beef 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

“We are standing today,” he commented stirringly, “on 4.5 acres of combat power and sovereign U.S. territory, the likes of which there is nothing to compete.” Trump’s military nostalgia is influenced by the war movies of his youth 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

After the kids are dropped at school, I take a circuitous route back home, to trace the lineaments of the past in the bricks and pavements of this familiar acre of London. In London, looking backward to move forward 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

But scale has a power all its own, and by its very size — each of the voids is about an acre in size — the completed memorial still evokes the immensity of 9/11. Gravity's Rainbow: The 9/11 Memorial Manages a Delicate Balance Between Grief and Consolation 2011-09-09T21:00:00Z

So earlier this year, I made the pilgrimage to this three million acre expanse on the California-Nevada border, following the footsteps of unknown numbers of old-time prospectors and oddballs. Journeys: Death Valley: Three Million Acres of Weird 2011-10-28T18:55:00Z

The Camp Fire destroyed more than 153,000 acres and became the deadliest blaze in the state’s history, causing 85 civilian fatalities, before it was finally contained over two weeks after it started. Fashion Nova pulls 'disrespectful' shirt appearing to feature California Camp Fire 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

At 9,000 feet elevation, 22 miles from the main road, the 20 acres of the old compound are surrounded by wilderness. They Live Alone in Ghost Towns 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

Rock in Rio’s first U.S. edition is set for May 8-9 and May 15-16, and the festival will be housed on a custom-made “City of Rock” spread over 37 acres on the Strip. Exclusive: Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran added to Rock in Rio Las Vegas 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

He assured Chicagoans that no taxpayer money would be used to build the museum and that the 17-acre plot of land is large enough for both the museum and 12 acres of new green space. Chicagoans May Sue George Lucas for Stealing Their Tailgating Space 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

Its eleven acres have a pond and several small buildings; “A Room with a View” was edited in a former apple-storage barn. James Ivory and the Making of a Historic Gay Love Story 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

And she hopes it will prompt visitors to think about what lies beneath the sprawling 250 acres of plants, waterfalls, rolling hills and ponds. Up Next at the New York Botanical Garden: Vultures 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z

The property sprawled across thousands of acres studded with trout ponds, which Mr. Annenberg and his son, Walter, used as a retreat with guests. Antiques: Vintage Thomas Molesworth Furniture Heads to Auction 2013-09-05T20:00:56Z

Horse farms surround the track, built on more than 1,000 acres of undulating bluegrass. For top horse racing without Triple Crown crowds, try Keeneland, not Churchill Downs 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

People told me of its sweeping mountain ranges, brilliant northern lights, millions of acres of tundra and caribou herds, all ending at the Arctic Ocean. This 414-mile road to the Arctic Ocean is one of the world’s most remote highways 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

If confirmed, Zinke, a second-term congressman from Montana and former Navy SEAL, would oversee all the nation’s national parks and more than 500 million acres of federal public lands, mostly in the West. Interior sec. nominee Ryan Zinke doubles down on coal 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

Because beyond the obvious — You Are Here in Central Park — my exact location among the 843 acres, dozens of statues and sculptures, seven bodies of water and seven meadows was elusive. Central Park: A green island in Manhattan

Its 5,000 acres offer five miles of pristine beaches and approximately nine miles of hiking trails through marshlands and maritime forest. In South Carolina, bypass crowded Charleston for tranquil Beaufort 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

Lessons begin the moment we assemble in a gravel parking lot that morning on the edge of 600-odd acres of sand scrub pine forest. A wilderness survival course leaves a novice camper hungry, cold and triumphant 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

She and her wife, Anna, bought 150 acres sight unseen in November 2018 and wouldn’t step foot on the property until late April because snow made the road impassable. How acclaimed Chicago chef Iliana Regan found her bliss in the woods 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

The house, which was originally built in 1887, sits on a just under half an acre. Massachusetts home where Lizzie Borden lived is selling for $890G 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

In addition to her advocacy work, McGeary is a farmer, growing melons, lemons, and other crops on 165 acres. Small farmers are struggling after the Texas big freeze 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

A tenth of an acre, Mr. Gambal told me, could go for as much as a million dollars. Seduced by Beaune in Burgundy 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

We also learn about corporate interests that control untold acres. Review: ‘Earth’s Golden Playground,’ a Documentary on Prospecting in the Yukon 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Opened in the 1990s by a group of Yogananda followers on four mountaintop acres, it now includes a yoga school, guesthouses, a real estate agency and a farm. In St. Francis’ Hometown, a New Kind of Pilgrim 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

The interior, perhaps 40 acres, would be left alone, to be overgrown by vegetation as the decades and centuries passed. What to do at Auschwitz? Hide site behind logs, Idea Office proposes 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

There are only three actual rides in the 20 acres of Wizarding World, and two of them — to borrow an image from another fantasy — are ugly stepsisters to the Forbidden Journey. The Thrill of Harry Potter Rides On 2010-06-10T14:38:00Z

Dubbed the Pagami Creek Fire, the blaze started on Aug. 18 and now covers 11,000 acres, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Minnesota wildfire smoke reaches Illinois 2011-09-13T20:19:00Z

He and his team continue to care for more than 4,500 trees and all the flowering plants on 274 acres of Capitol landscape. This flower power couple curates more than 300 acres of Washington’s downtown 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

It also resumed a bevy of activities, including golf, tennis, fly-fishing, paintball, basketball, safari tours and biking on 2,000 acres of trails. What’s it like to go on vacation during a pandemic? I went to a newly reopened resort to find out. 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

Albert said she intends to keep an acre of the property to build a house she will share with her husband. New Hampshire home of signer of Declaration of Independence for sale 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

“The Bowling Green Mass” Is what I call it, because It didn’t -acre. Style Invitational: Mergers you wrote — combine two businesses 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

The wall was supposed to slice through the butterfly center, scouring habitats and cutting off 70 of its 100 acres. Butterflies were symbols of rebirth. Then they started disappearing. 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

With money that one of the members had inherited from an aunt, plus what they made from selling knitwear, they were able to purchase a turnip field of about ten acres. Life at One of England’s Last Tolstoyan Communes 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

During a rambling and wildly entertaining conversation, he spoke passionately of the importance of preserving Spain’s estimated seven million acres of dehesa. 2010-01-14T03:45:00Z

According to a listing from the real estate agency Corcoran, it sits on 3 acres, has about 8,500 square feet with 7.5 bathrooms, a pool and guest house, a media room and sauna. Stalker found living in Jennifer Lopez' Hamptons estate 2013-08-22T18:53:07Z

Occupying 21 acres in the middle of this city’s largest Mexican-American neighborhood, called Little Village, the park used to be a brownfield and illegal dump. In Chicago and Philadelphia, the Difference a Park Makes 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

One of the best is Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, with five miles of trails that wend through 900 acres of pine and oak woodland, salt marsh and bay shore. 36 Hours on Outer Cape Cod 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Opening to the public on Sunday, the 1.5-acre greensward represents Phase 1 of a three-phase plan for 14 acres across the street from Museum Hill’s cluster of institutions, including the Museum of International Folk Art. In Transit Blog: In Santa Fe, a New Botanical Garden 2013-07-17T13:55:52Z

Deep in the woods of Rappahannock County, Virginia, a tiny red house languished dilapidated and vine covered until Joe Svatos bought the 200 surrounding acres. Historic Log Cabin Renovation 2012-10-08T16:20:03.250Z

Each morning there is a guided mountain tour for newcomers to Vail’s 5,289 acres of terrain and frequent tours of Blue Sky Basin. How to Have a High-End Ski Vacation Without All the High Prices 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

“Molly’s Game” is an Aaron Sorkin film with acres and acres of dialogue. Jessica Chastain Feared Speaking Out Would Hurt Her Career 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

Opening day of season at 3.5 acre formal garden, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. COMMUNITY CORNER: March 1-2 2014-02-28T18:56:48Z

The number of runs is a modest 18 — but the fun skiing is off-piste, between the runs, on Palandoken’s 2,200 acres. The 41 Places to Go in 2011 2011-01-07T21:03:56Z

It is a serene drive, as the landscape shifts quickly from urban to wide-open rural spaces, with acres of barren, tan-colored land stretching miles into the distance, punctuated by the occasional farmhouse. Harriet Tubman’s Path to Freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Buoyed by a 10-year, $330 million investment for capital improvements by the Bloomberg administration, eventually the island is likely to include a hotel, a conference center and a university on 33 acres reserved for development. An Island of Culture in the Harbor 2011-05-26T20:32:56Z

The McLeod Plantation, which opens to the public on Saturday, is set on 37 acres a few miles from a downtown wharf where newly arrived Africans were sold. McLeod Plantation Museum Tells the Story of the South 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

That's when I'm the happiest is when I'm cutting the three acres down and in a zone. A Minute With: Social Distortion's Mike Ness on travel 2011-04-20T16:57:09Z

The area consists of eight grass panels totaling 18 acres, and the first three, on the Capitol side, were completed in 2012. Once barely surviving, the grass on the Mall gets a serious makeover 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

The greenhouse is one of three clustered on his sloping, 1½ -acre garden in Exton, in southeastern Pennsylvania. The mysterious appeal of the dainty snowdrop 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

Sited in Malaysia, the studio's 25 acre resort is set to feature rides and attractions based on films including Ice Age, Alien, Predator and Life of Pi. What films should be turned into theme park rides? 2013-07-26T10:53:19Z

Four thousand acres of ski terrain among four mountain faces including open bowls and tree-lined runs. Searching for a cure to writer’s block in the Canadian Rockies 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

A small, charming winery with 66 acres of vineyard. A sip-to-sip tour of the ‘Sonoma of Spain’ 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

The sheer density of flowers per acre is greater than in rural areas, but for the most part it’s an accidental bonanza. 3 ways to create a honeybee haven at home 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

In all, Troon has 45 planted acres with 20 varieties, some of which have been added simply to determine which grapes will make the best wines. The Applegate Valley Offers Oregon Winemakers a Quiet Place to Experiment 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Her house, on several acres of meadow and woodland near the Central Intelligence Agency, was built toward the end of the Civil War. Artists works show how their gardens grow: The seeds of creativity 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

It was as if they were shrugging off the old Hollywood clichés about fairy tale dressing along with the acres of cloth that usually goes with them. The Best and Worst Moments of the 2022 Oscars 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z

And as nightfall signaled the start of revelry across Vegas, the 40 acres where the festival was anchored indeed lived up to its billing as the “City of Rock.” Rock in Rio starts slow, morphs into wild party 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z

The festival, which began Friday and ends May 5, has music lovers filling the walkways linking 12 stages arranged across 150 acres of the festival grounds, not far from downtown. "Trombone Shorty" carries on New Orleans jazz tradition 2013-04-27T17:03:55Z

Arnos Vale opened in 1839 on 25 acres of a celebrated beauty spot. Victorian cemetery opens to visitors following ?5m restoration 2010-04-28T23:10:00Z

Sitting on 17 acres, the center will be part of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway, a 125-mile self-guided driving tour that wends through 36 significant sites along the Eastern Shore. Harriet Tubman’s Path to Freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Customers first choose the grape from the varietals he grows on his five and a half acres in Peconic — cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc and sauvignon blanc — or from those he buys from vineyards nearby. Fun by the Barrel (Wine, Too) 2010-12-02T22:00:00Z

For less than 3 cents an acre, the United States gained rights to 828,000 square miles west of the Mississippi River. French leader Napoleon Bonaparte has a complicated legacy 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

They did, and each was given 16 acres of undeveloped land in southern Trinidad. Finding a Lost Strain of Rice, and Clues to Slave Cooking 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

We had 4 acres of land with a creek tucked into the woods 5 minutes from the river/bay at the Jersey Shore. A Thanksgiving Snapshot: Readers Share Their Holiday Stories 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

The site of about 190 acres includes a working cornfield. Frank Thomas heads group that buys Field of Dreams site 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

There, wander along winding paths through ten acres of captivating bulbs, and be sure to check out the wildlife and plant themed exhibits, too. These are the dazzling Christmas light displays across America 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Though Melody Ranch sprawls over 22 acres and includes several sound stages housing various interiors including a meticulously re-created police precinct, Logan had run out of space. In ‘Penny Dreadful: City of Angels,’ California Dreaming, Darkly 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

In a new and shorter work, “Meander,” created for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Bell and White take participants on a leisurely stroll across a couple of its acres. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

The addition will be on two acres next to the Glassell School of Art and a sculpture garden designed by Isamu Noguchi. Gary Tinterow Named Director of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 2011-12-01T21:46:57Z

I met her recently with her farm manager Chris Damewood in a clearing of four acres where row upon row of aging compost — windrows — formed dark-brown stripes encircled with hills of more compost. Why you should use compost, even if you don’t have a big garden 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

Fires scorch an average of 7 million acres each year. Wildfires are burning holes in our pockets 2014-05-08T12:45:00Z

It offers 14 acres of public open space in return for privatizing the last precious undeveloped parcel of significant size in Manhattan. Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

The louche locations all seem to blend into one another, and every kitchen is the same, with acres of space and double-wide Sub-Zero refrigerators that seem to hold enough food for an Olympic swim team. Television Review: Miami, Another Battlefront in the War Against Wrinkles 2011-02-21T23:00:11Z

Baker talks about his experience tending his two acres of syrah vines with the same sense of humor that charmed the nation’s capital during his introductory news conference at Nationals Park. The Washington Nationals have themselves a manager-vintner 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z

When you want to determine the value of an acre of land, you call an assessor. Catch a Rising Star at the Auction House 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

I have 100 acres at the house, so all of my kids know how to ride four-wheelers. 2 Chainz Is a Dedicated Father With a Competitive Streak 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

These bureaucrats want to relocate the families on several thousand acres and flood their land. Review: ‘Miller’s Valley,’ a stunning new novel by Anna Quindlen 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

After growing hemp indoors, Oakes and Wright then grew it on 30 acres, and, from there, on 300 acres. For young farmers, hemp is a "gateway crop" 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

The Coral Pink Sand Dunes state park, a sweeping expanse covering 3,730 acres, and just a small diversion off our route, had become popular for sandboarding, said the guidebook. Ski safari in Utah 2010-12-18T00:07:45Z

Three-bedroom house on 13 acres in Ulster County, about 95 miles from . House Tour: Stone Ridge, N.Y. 2010-07-15T21:39:00Z

Over at the Canyons Resort, 300 acres of new skiing and snowboarding terrain includes 10 new trails that range from intermediate to expert gladed tree runs. The 41 Places to Go in 2011 2011-01-07T21:03:56Z

The 5,700 acres of island tranquility once served as a private retreat for a group of America’s wealthiest families — picture Vanderbilts and Morgans. Five historic hotels with guided tours that bring the past to life 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

“The quality of snow is so great and the number of skiers per acre is so low. It is always a treat to ski there.” New owner from Seattle brings fresh energy to Idaho’s Silver Mountain resort 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Chefs are embracing the state’s role in agriculture, featuring products grown on the nearly 15 million acres of cultivated land in the state. Where to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner in Indianapolis 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

In The Lincoln Lawyer, McConaughey gave evidence he could be an avatar of Paul Newman — specifically, Newman as Hud, the rancher dude with acres of Texas charm and not a square foot of scruples. Killer Joe: Matthew McConaughey as the Creepiest Cop in Texas 2012-07-26T12:00:44Z

Millions of acres of pasture and cultivated fields across the United States have been lost to suburbs, which produce half of the country’s household carbon emissions. Eleven Madison Park Explores the Plant Kingdom’s Uncanny Valley 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

The museum is a 10-minute walk through the woods from Bentonville's downtown square, on 120 acres that have long been owned by the Walton family. Major art museum opens in unlikely place: Arkansas 2011-11-08T10:31:05Z

The new lot features 13 city blocks and 15 shooting areas over four acres. Universal gets happy ending with new backlot 2010-05-28T01:57:00Z

The evidence is there among the happy heifers and industrious chickens on Joel Salatin's Virginia farm, each bucolic acre yielding $3,000, compared with $150 from the conventional farm next door. 'Fresh': A crisp indictment of industrial farming 2010-04-29T20:09:00Z

In northern Kazakhstan, Saryarka comprises over 500,000 acres of wetlands which as many as 16 million threatened birds use as a resting point in their migration cycle. New Natural Wonders 2010-10-29T16:00:00Z

It houses about 500 lions, tigers, bears and wolves in free-roaming habitats — some of which are up to 300 acres. After you binge-watch ‘Tiger King,’ make plans to see a real tiger sanctuary 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

The client originally asked about clearing five to six acres, but only about a third of an acre is suitable for the goats. Are goats the new weed whackers? Plenty of people want them to be. 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

Since 2017, she had led the Snug Harbor Cultural Center on Staten Island in New York, which encompasses 26 buildings, 14 botanical gardens, 10 acres of wetlands, a farm and a contemporary art center. The National Building Museum wants to be at the center of the climate change conversation 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

Spanning 130 acres and home to thousands of animals, the Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium includes the world’s largest indoor desert. Gas is cheap. D.C. is hot. Here’s how far $100 worth of gas will take you this summer. 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Encompassing 1,000 miles of shoreline and stretches more than 40 acres. Cool Lake Escapes 2010-05-31T17:12:00Z

In the 19th century, Native peoples in North America were stereotyped as savages while millions of acres of their land were pilfered. The Harsh Realities of Being Indigenous in North America 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

When the Congaree River, which forms the southern border of the park, floods, usually in late winter or early spring, its waters inundate the roughly 26,000 acres of this monument. Among the Majestic Trees in Congaree, Slipping Into Silence 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

Most guests rarely venture off its 14 acres, whiling away their day poolside or reading on a chaise longue in their walled off patio or taking high tea in the inn’s library. On an Arizona Road Trip, Miles of Family Firsts 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

Inkaterra offsets the impact of its lodges in Peru by investing in the protection of 42,000 acres of forest, among other programs. Greening Your Summer Vacation 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

The property consists of a 10-acre hayfield, another 10 acres of woodland and, at its core, a garden of two acres or more around the house. How do you cultivate a garden with soul? Hint: It doesn’t happen in a day. 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

As for the figures, whether peasants in a landscape or pleasure-seekers in a boat, they are uniformly faceless, and sometimes depicted as just a few patches of flesh tones in acres of blue and green. Alfred Sisley: The Unheralded Impressionist 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

It’s the tale of a three-generation farming family in contemporary Iowa, presiding over thousands of acres in corn country — and facing the changes in agribusiness that affect their livelihood. ‘At Any Price’: a farm-family melodrama 2013-05-16T19:30:55Z

My husband and I live on two acres of them, and they house our wildlife, heat our home, and, in the fall, bury our driveway in an unconscionable volume of leaves. There’s an environmental superhero growing near you 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

Just inside the walls of Marrakech’s bustling medina, amid acres of lush gardens and olive trees, the storied La Mamounia hotel sits like a supersize jewel box, brimming with rare treasures. A Jewelry Designer’s Moroccan Inspiration 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

The bar and other rooms are baronial, with soaring ceilings and acres of dark wood. Here’s why the Hamilton is one of the nation’s busiest restaurants 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

The Mall had recently been lengthened by a third, with acres west of the Washington Monument filled in where the Potomac River used to flow. The National Mall’s immortal reflection 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

In 2017, Trump decided to eviscerate its 1.35 million acres of red rock desert by 85 percent and open the rest to drilling and development. One Environmentalist’s Warning: Think Globally, Act Accordingly 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

But now, while he keeps a small apartment in Little Italy, he has moved to Los Angeles, to a castle on three acres with a stone wall, a Disney-esque gatehouse and a kidney-shaped pool. At Home With Moby: A Castle for the King of Techno 2011-04-28T03:00:42Z

Al-Rajhi signed up local chiefs for a scheme to plant rice, pineapples, bananas, and corn on up to 190,000 acres of communally owned land across Mindanao. Don’t censor the school-lunch blog 2012-06-15T16:15:00Z

Tao owns 30 acres of the island, turning part of it into a banana plantation with room for eggplant, lemon cucumbers and tomatoes. Explorer: An Aimless Sailing Trip Off Palawan in the Philippines 2012-03-09T23:12:36Z

Transformed and inspired, the 26th president eventually set aside more than 230 million acres of federal land to help preserve the wonder of places like Crater Lake, Mesa Verde and the Grand Canyon. 52 Places to Go in 2016 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

The home sits on 1.16 verdant acres in Jupiter, Florida, near Palm Beach Gardens and the area’s luxe shops and fine dining. Tour a Home in the Private Club Founded by Golf Great Jack Nicklaus 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

There, an hour’s drive off the grid, stood 100 acres of tough-to-tread land completely dedicated to witchcraft. Witches of America: how I became immersed in a growing movement 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

The villa’s 25 acres of parks, gardens, fortifications, sculptures, and hiking trails offer prime examples of Italian Renaissance landscapes, and luminaries like Gustave Flaubert and Edith Wharton found inspiration here. Tour Lake Como’s Magnificent Villa d’Este with Lee F. Mindel 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Percy Warner Park and Edwin Warner Park — on the National Register of Historic Places — span 3,131 acres of wooded hills, open meadows and streams. Leaf Peeping Is Not Canceled: 6 Drives and Hikes to Try This Fall 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

In Montgomery, Ala., the first capital of the Confederacy, the nonprofit group Equal Justice Initiative has purchased six acres of land on which it is building a memorial to honor the victims of lynching. In the South and North, New (and Vital) Civil Rights Trails 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

The storm killed newborn calves, acres of newly planted watermelons and nearly the entire crop of Valencia oranges. Texas Farmers Tally Up the Damage From a Winter Storm ‘Massacre’ 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

In the Horse Heaven Hills, for example, seven acres are planted. We’re getting in on the comeback of carménère 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

A mega-resort dedicated to entertainment and business conferences, it would include 12 hotels, six casinos and three golf courses spread across 2,000 acres — the biggest urban development project in Spain since the 1992 Olympics. EuroVegas, baby 2012-08-06T16:13:00Z

For more than a century, Yaddo, the private artists’ colony on 400 acres of woods in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., has been a haven for writers, painters and composers. In Transit Blog: A Chance to Peek Inside Yaddo 2011-08-31T20:06:44Z

This corn — grown by the tens of millions of acres — has been genetically engineered, altered by having stacks of apparently desirable traits wedged into its genetic code. T Magazine: Children of the Corn 2011-09-22T01:30:18Z

Now, to recover from these losses, he sold five acres to someone who is using the land to build a house. Dragon Fruit Is Showing Up All Over. So Why Are Farmers Leaving the Business? 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

And on summer Sundays, it seems like every square foot of those acres contains people — families, touch footballers, picnickers, etc., etc. Robert Caro Relaxes by Listening to People Drum in Central Park 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

Mr. Deane did not finance the deal, Mr. Bernard added; the church raised the money and bought 11½ acres. The Power Pastor: How A.R. Bernard Built a New York Megachurch 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

Glasgow has spent more than a decade redeveloping 130 acres of derelict shipyard and unused dockland in an effort to restore the waterway to its former glory. 45 Places to Go in 2012 2012-01-06T17:44:12Z

He said that his family struck deals to lease its acreage on and near the reservation for as much as $700 per acre around the same time as the Black Rock deal. Land grab cheats North Dakota tribes out of $1 billion, suits allege 2013-02-25T19:43:00Z

As we toured the many acres of the property one spring day in April, the green of the grounds amazed me. The best Irish brown bread is baked at Clonbrock Castle — here's how to make it 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z

The house is still closed, as are the various smaller buildings, parkland and fields, leaving human visits restricted to weekend walks in the nine acres of elaborate gardens, where there are plenty of other changes. The Mansion Is Closed Because of Covid. No One Told the Deer. 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

Its largest remaining glacier is Harrison Glacier, which is about 465 acres, or 190 hectares, in size. Glacier Loss Points to Problem from the Rockies to the Alps 2010-04-09T17:15:00Z

Almond orchards cover around 1.3 million acres and account for a huge percentage of the agricultural water used in California. California dairy uses lots of water. Here’s why it matters 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

The Grade I-listed manor house, set in eight acres of “magnificent parkland”, has eight bedrooms, a walled garden, a three-bedroom “staff cottage”, wine cellars, a swimming pool and a tennis court. Living the Hollywood high life: movie homes up for sale 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

After buying 100 acres of the Amazon rain forest sight unseen, Charlie Hamilton James, a wildlife cameraman, discovers that preserving the ecosystem from destruction may be more than a one-man job. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘This Is Us’ and ‘Barbara Walters Presents’ 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

He bought the house and the two hundred and fifty surrounding acres—it’s a working farm—because of the relative solitude. A Visit to Donleavyland, Sixty Years After “The Ginger Man” 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Many of those growers cultivate just a few acres, their yards mixed carpets of foreign tree fruits, vegetables and herbs that creep right up to the road. For Niven Patel, Farm-to-Table Cooking Means Taro and Mangoes 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

A-Z West Zittel’s home and studio, on 35 acres next to Joshua Tree National Park, offers public tours four times a year. | Joshua Tree’s Artful Excursions 2014-04-11T12:59:34Z

Valenzuela described RR as Chile’s largest wine exporter, with about 2,500 acres of vineyards, shipping more than 80 million liters a year to more than 25 countries. This might be the world’s best-rated $7 wine. How did Walmart get a lock on it? 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

This secluded medieval property is something like a posh fortress masquerading as a seaside resort, with five acres of walled-in palm gardens enveloping 51 rooms, suites and apartments. | The Anti-Amalfi 2011-06-24T15:00:27Z

The house is a clapboard center-hall Colonial built in 1792 and sits on 100 acres of woods and pastures speckled with grazing cows and pigs from neighboring farms. Possessed: Proenza Schouler Designers Find Inspiration Outdoors 2012-05-25T18:47:59Z

In exchange the center turned over its 78 acres at Valley Forge to the Park Service. Revolution Museum Unveils Design by Robert A. M. Stern 2012-06-11T21:58:26Z

Property Values: The 48-acre estate encompasses formal gardens and a pool as well as a stable and other outbuildings; there is also the option to purchase an additional 158 acres. Extraordinary Homes for Sale Around the World 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Spreading those fixed costs over a bigger farm means the cost per acre to run that farm is lower. Why does a strawberry grown down the road cost more than one grown in California? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

The company flirted with Washington Square Park and Columbus Circle, and finally found a new home when city planners decided to raze acres of West Side tenements, plotting urban renewal. A Starburst Is Born: Watch the Building of the Metropolitan Opera 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

Today, the string of four groups of small islands totaling 211 acres is a national wildlife refuge, home to the largest colony of nesting seabirds in the contiguous United States. At California’s wild Farallon Islands, meet nature on nature’s terms 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Group Environmental Manager acre resources. our client is looking for a group environmental ma…. Tony Hare obituary 2010-04-01T17:26:00Z

The “Grease: Live” set, according to the behind-the-scenes looks that played during the bumpers to commercial, sprawled over 20 acres. “Grease: Live”‘s technical triumph: A dazzling production almost makes up for lackluster leads 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Luxurious rooms and a superb breakfast are the centerpiece, but you’ll also enjoy walking through the grounds, which include several acres of vineyards. Wine and romance: Here’s where to go to get up close and personal 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

Following disastrous 1910 wildfires that burned 3 million acres of forest, the Forest Service built thousands of them across the country. Old fire lookouts offer sleepovers with history, panoramas and unexpected comfort 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

Built in 1770, the elegant residence is set on 232 verdant acres; about 145 acres are dedicated to the property’s vineyard, which produces roughly 400,000 bottles of wine each year. On the Market: Bordeaux, France 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

When Dusty Baker bought five acres of land in Placer County, Calif., in the Sierra Foothills east of Sacramento, he wanted to put in a fishpond. The Washington Nationals have themselves a manager-vintner 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z

The bogs are tied in with conservation: every acre of bog is supported by four to 10 acres of wildlife-rich wetlands and woodland. Nantucket cranberries – painting the Massachusetts island red 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

The home sites range from around one-quarter acre to over an acre each. Breaking Ground: Sound-View Homes in North Carolina?s Waterfront 2010-03-04T21:26:00Z

At 13.2 million acres, it is larger than Switzerland and more than one-fourth of it is glacial ice, comprising about 60 percent of the glacial ice in all of the state. Explorer : Ice Climbing in an Alaskan Glacial Paradise 2014-04-23T16:25:57Z

It was more than 70 years ago, at the chaotic end of World War II, that the singular fate of the 660 acres that would become the Naval Surface Weapons Center was decided. How Nazi scientists and their wind tunnels ended up in D.C.’s suburbs 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

“There’s not expansive flat lands to do acres. It’s pretty steep. And mostly, it’s just people living on their property.” Can Cannabis Farms Weather Wildfire Season? 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

Only four properties are listed for over $1 million; they each include hundreds of acres and multiple dwellings or structures. High & Low | Peterborough, N.H.: ?Our Town? Is Yours, Too 2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

But one acre of corn silage will feed a cow all year long. The Milk Situation 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z

Standing in more than 2,000 acres of beautiful 18th-century parkland designed by Capability Brown, the house is an impressive sight and filled with treasures. Historic Britain: days out and short breaks 2012-08-17T21:45:06Z

The park’s nearly 1,500 acres, at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge, are richly evocative of the past. The Presidio in San Francisco Presents a Fresh Face 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Before we begin, let’s remember that hundreds of families lost their homes in the Caldor fire, which burned more than 200,000 acres in the area from August to October 2021. Help! I Canceled My Rental Because of a Wildfire. My Contract Says No Refund. Is That Fair? 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

He started doing so on a small plot, and expanded to more than five acres, with the help of Ignacio Flores, a Mexican farmer. Espelette Grown in California’s Mendocino County 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

The total area under protection, 84.4 million acres, is almost three times the size of Pennsylvania. National Park Service marks 100 years of preserving natural treasures 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

Opened last year, the park features bike trails that stretch down and across acres of second-growth forest and open space. Fit & Fun: Mountain bikers' nirvana at Duthie Hill Park 2011-08-31T20:50:05Z

Under the “Open Space and Parks” tab is a proposal, short on details, for creating 2,300 acres of new park space within a mile of the river. Cautious, low-key launch for Frank Gehry's controversial L.A. River plan 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z

I emerge into rare spring sunshine and stroll around the garden, three acres of plane trees and flower beds. The other London underground: See the ancient city that lies beneath the modern metropolis 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

With thousands of acres to protect, the price quickly adds up. The journey from seed to harvested Christmas tree is a long, winding road 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

The fire nearly tripled in size over the past day to more than 43,000 acres Wednesday. Wildfire burns on NM ranch owned by Sam Donaldson 2011-06-30T11:15:22Z

Heading back down the valley, with late light touching acre upon acre of cropland, I thought of how very Western this particular part of the West was, in its ruggedness and enterprise and prosperity. In the Yakima Valley, Serious Wines and Sweeping Vistas 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

At Brooklyn Bridge Park, one of the city’s most crowded parks already, Pier 3 adds 4.5 acres of breathing room, sandwiched between soccer fields and basketball courts. 3 Lush Parks Drastically Remake the East River Waterfront 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

There hardly seems to be an acre of the park that hasn’t been preserved on film. A Real-Life GIF in Central Park 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

According to the USDA, no-till systems, which help prevent soil erosion and nutrient runoff, are on the rise, and about a quarter of corn acres, and almost half of soy acres, are farmed that way. How do you solve a problem like monocrops?

In the 155 years since, this territory, originally 60 million acres, has been steadily subsumed by non-Native interests. Envisioning indigenous food sovereignty as "a whole ecosystem" 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z

The move also granted him a quarter acre of land, which he is turning into a Thai vegetable and herb garden. Looking Beyond Tel Aviv for Israel’s New Restaurant Scene 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

We saw beautiful waterfalls that were featured in “Jurassic Park,” then walked across acres of dried lava and through dark, scary lava tubes. A mother-daughters trip to Hawaii 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

The home sits on 1.16 verdant acres near Palm Beach Gardens and the area’s luxe shops and fine dining. Estates of the Week: May 22, 2015 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

The film, inspired by true events, addresses the topical issue of climate change; a title card states that every year, 60,000 wildfires destroy 10 million acres of land in the U.S. alone. "The last thing we wanted to do was start a fire!": Peter Facinelli on his wildfire survival film 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z

SAT Perennials and hardy plants, walk through 22 acres of gardens, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Community calendar 2012-06-21T01:23:04Z

The ski area maintains a mile of rope tows and 800 acres of terrain over 1,400 vertical feet. 12 Months of Skiing, From Chile to China 2012-12-07T17:07:45Z

Mr. Glass stocks one cow and calf pair for every two acres, a formula that he believes cuts down on disease. Veal Farmers Adopt More Humane Methods 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

I thought it was the ugliest thing blooming over the flat acre of grass and garden where I spent an idyllic childhood, thanks to my mother’s tending. The First (and Last) Time She Didn’t Come Home 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

You may have acres to fill, but some of us are dealing with cramped containers: thirsty, polluted, already stuffed with the wounded survivors of last year’s gardening. Seeds, the Gateway Drug to Gardening 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

A map of Georgia, by Du Bois, colorfully indicates the number of acres owned by African-Americans in each county. What W. E. B. Du Bois Conveyed in His Captivating Infographics 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

If Manang were in Colorado or Montana, Robert Redford and Ted Turner would already have bought every acre they could get their hands on. Hiking the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal Before Roads Take Over 2010-03-20T00:19:00Z

Red Mountain is tiny — just 4,040 acres — of which about a third already is planted. Red Mountain grapes lure Duckhorn to Washington 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Stroll the property’s 108 acres and get lost in romantic woodlands dotted with follies and grottos. | Room With a View 2013-05-10T22:52:03Z

It’s nice, don’t get me wrong; sometimes the allure of the big-box store, with its acres of parking illuminated brighter than daylight in the Sahara, is irresistible to me as well as to you. “The Great Invisible”: The BP oil disaster and our fossil-fuel addiction 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

Each Alexis promised acres of insight into the difficulties faced by those who find themselves in the wrong body – but She's My Brother never sat still long enough to listen to either of them. Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother 2010-05-21T22:00:00Z

Getting lost in the nearly 3,200 acres of forest and valleys and hills, it’s easy to imagine what this state must have looked like a hundred years ago—beautiful. Miranda Lambert, Faith Hill and Other Celebrities Share Their Favorite Spots in the South 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

A black chef’s jacket, embroidered with her name and the presidential seal, hangs in a frame in the kitchen of Wolf’s home on 15 acres in north Baltimore County. Cindy Wolf is the Susan Lucci of James Beard award nominees. That’s fine by her. 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Then there’s the Ananti Club, also a commuter’s distance from Seoul: 486 acres containing three courses nestled in the Yumyeongsan forest, with a clubhouse, designed by the architect Ken Min, built almost entirely underground. 45 Places to Go in 2012 2012-01-06T17:44:12Z

And all of this splayed on a mere five acres, which in size-obsessed Texas surely sets a record for architectural restraint. Texas, 3 Ways 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

McConaughey has lately given evidence he could be an avatar of Paul Newman — specifically, Newman as Hud, the rancher dude with acres of Texas charm and not a square foot of scruples. Crazy Cops in Toronto: McConaughey and Harrelson Go Splendidly Sicko 2011-09-14T14:25:00Z

To this end, RecoveryPark has purchased or acquired over 400 parcels of land, totaling about 60 acres in all. Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

But if so much art is packed in a mere 31 acres of terrain, what would happen if disaster struck? Swiss Freeports Are Home for a Growing Treasury of Art 2012-07-21T18:52:48Z

Located halfway between Huntsville, Alabama, and Chattanooga, Tennessee, just outside of Scottsboro, Alabama and spanning 150 acres, we found the charming and beautiful Crow Mountain Orchard. An easy, but decadent, caramel apple cake to herald in cozy, fall evenings 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z

Located about 15 minutes outside of Asheville, N.C., it's an acre and a half bound by mountains and fog. The best laid plants: Small-scale farmers face uncertain futures amid restaurant closures 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

By the time it was finally declared full and closed in 1853, at least 120,000 people had been interred in the four acres. Burial ground of Bunyan, Defoe and Blake earns protected status 2011-02-22T00:04:01Z

Two separate and grandiose Italianate fountain gardens followed, along with other outdoor displays, and the original 200 acres grew to around 1,000. At Longwood Gardens, a new meadow for the ages

In addition, trees were thinned in the Wild West glades, opening up 35 acres of new tree skiing. 52 Places to Go in 2015 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

When it opened in 1875, the track sat on 80 acres at the edge of the countryside. For top horse racing without Triple Crown crowds, try Keeneland, not Churchill Downs 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Newly landscaped gardens covering nearly 7 acres will be anchored by a long allée of olive trees pointing the way to the rest of the Huntington campus. Huntington's new visitor center strikes studiously neutral pose 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

On my way back to my hotel, I pulled over to look at a farm for sale: stone house, 12 flat acres, decent fencing. My Horse Country 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the harbourmaster gazes out across the 10,000 acres of sea under his command and makes sure the ships ploughing their way ceaselessly back and forth stay safe. Harbour Lives – review 2013-07-13T06:01:05Z

Property Values: Located at the end of a cul-de-sac, the lot measures just under half an acre. Extraordinary Homes for Sale Across the United States 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

Ten lifts cover 1,125 acres of terrain and 37 runs at this 75-year-old resort known for its steep lines and excellent tree skiing. 12 Months of Skiing, From Chile to China 2012-12-07T17:07:45Z

In Cornish, Saint-Gaudens lived in a stately house on top of a majestic hill surrounded by studios and gardens and acres of forest. Salinger’s House, Artist’s Retreat 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

The Pavilions, the new building at Glenstone, the Montgomery County, Md., art museum situated on 230 acres of woodland and pasture, will open to the public on Oct. Glenstone announces dazzling lineup of artists for new building 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

Reynolds, who can attribute his career success less to his acting teacher than to his personal trainer, usually gets to display acres of his perfect torso, but not here. R.I.P.D.: Too Awful to Review? 2013-07-19T10:56:32Z

Plans are under way for eight works to be presented in rotating repertory on the two stages that share 110 acres of woods and meadows; a 1,148-seat outdoor theater and a 200-seat indoor space. Summer Stages 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z

He went on to design acres of installations: entire cities with giant puppets and arch signage. Phish’s Art Director Calls Four Shipping Containers Home 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

His secret project ballooned to 12 acres of courtyards and twisting passages. Adventures in ‘the Most Organized City’ in India 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

Now, four acres of gardens around the hotel include 150 varieties of palm tree and about 600 species of plants, including the spices, like clove and cinnamon, for which Zanzibar is famous. Journeys: Hotels Built on History in Italy, Quebec, Zanzibar, Macao 2010-05-07T18:02:00Z

It's one of those rugged and pretty beaches which Cornwall does so well, with acres of sand, plenty of rocks to clamber on and enough waves to keep everyone happy. Shed Heaven in Cornwall 2013-07-14T05:30:00Z

“We have 190 acres, and most of that will stay farmland,” says Stillman. Iowa exudes a decency that even politics can’t undo 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

It has to be 50 acres and it’s all parterres with vegetables and flowers. Ina Garten Delights in Hitchcock Thrillers and Her Mini Cooper 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z

Of some 500 acres of confiscated land, villagers wrested back about a third of their rolling, terraced groves, or some 170 acres, after a protracted legal struggle in Israel's Supreme Court. Oscar contender on Palestinians angers many 2013-02-10T18:48:13Z

About nine months ago, he bought some 45 acres of land on the site of a former strip mine. The Man Who Knew Too Little 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z

One Florida farmer plowed under 100 acres of green beans and 60 acres of cabbage, according to the Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences at the University of Florida. To Fight Waste and Hunger, Food Banks Start Cooking 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

The nearly 16,500-square-foot home, which sits on five acres of picturesque countryside, features ten bedrooms, nine and a half baths, and eight fireplaces. A Tudor-Style Boston Estate Hits the Market 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

When he turned 38, he purchased 50 acres of dunes near the town of Eastham on the outermost beach of Cape Cod. Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

They work about two acres, growing enough food to sell to a handful of restaurants and about 200 customers who pay for seasonal produce subscriptions. How to Make a Neighborhood Farm for an Entire Metropolis 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z

We were heading to the only public use cabin in all of Lake Clark’s four million acres — bigger than the state of Connecticut. An Alaska National Park as Big as Connecticut. Annual Visitors? 23,000. 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

According to the listing, the four bedroom, five bathroom French Regency estate sits on a 1.18 acre promontory overlooking Los Angeles. Elvis' Beverly Hills estate up for sale 2012-10-12T16:49:08Z

He bought nearly 160,000 acres in the late 1890s when acreage was cheap and Southerners, black and white, had to sell it to survive. Among the Majestic Trees in Congaree, Slipping Into Silence 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

When he dies, she will take control of the remaining few hundred acres. Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends? 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z

They signed for very little money, in most cases around $25 an acre. A Muckraker Targets Onshore Drilling 2010-06-21T18:50:00Z

They sowed acres of seed over several years. At Longwood Gardens, a new meadow for the ages

Fresh market vegetable production in the United States takes up about 1.63 million acres of land. Perspective | Agriculture can indeed fix our food system — if we reimagine it 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z

It encompasses 400 acres, she said, and the main crops are oats and wheat. In the Cotswolds, a weekend on a farm B&B

Almost all of the island’s 16,500 acres are in public hands, save the land in and around the community of Hog Hammock, where fewer than 50 people still live. Reviving a Crop and an African-American Culture, Stalk by Stalk 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

I first discovered their smooth, fragrant roasts on a 2003 visit to the Big Island; today, Hilo Coffee Mill is situated on 24 acres in Mountain View. 2010-01-15T22:44:00Z

The farm is owned by Fred Detrick, 96, a retired professor who still takes to his tractor to monitor more than 60 acres of berries. In the Shadow of the Blueberry Titans, Smaller Growers Thrive 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

Washington Square Park is on land once owned by free blacks whose farmsteads in the mid-17th century spread over 130 acres. Museum Review | African Burial Ground Visitor Center: A Burial Ground and Its Dead Are Given Life 2010-02-25T22:31:00Z

Built on 35 acres of farmland, the park possesses many of the picturesque features that have made Olmsted’s landscapes so beloved. Should a Park Include a Burial Ground? Residents of Newburgh, N.Y., Can’t Agree. 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

He dreams of moving to the country, a farm, nothing big, 10 acres in nearby Madison County, with apple and pear trees. Anthony Broadwater was wrongfully convicted four decades ago — and fought to get his life back 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

The J Bar L runs its cattle across 20,000 acres near the Idaho border, in a vast and largely empty valley framed by the looming peaks of the Centennial Mountains. Journeys: Ranches Where Guests Do Everyday Cowboy Work 2010-07-09T16:48:00Z

Located in Hinsdale, a suburban town some 20 minutes from downtown Chicago, the property sits on more than one acre and was featured in the film Dennis the Menace. On the Market: A Federal-Style Residence 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

The remains of the massive D-shaped structure of Pueblo Bonito, which covered two and a half acres, has been a treasure trove for archaeologists since the late 19th century. Searching for the Ancestral Puebloans 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly said Millennium Park is eight acres and the second-most-visited attraction in Chicago. In Chicago, the tourist experience is a mix of the familiar and the foreign 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

Downtown’s Public Square — 10 acres of green park — just reopened, following an investment of 15 months and $50 million. 10 top places to eat in Cleveland, for convention-goers and the rest of us 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

The television station reported that the wildfire grew by about 200 acres on Friday. YouTube couple criticized for extravagant gender reveal on tallest building in the world 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z

It is also a sign of how committed they are to their homestead, 83 acres of woodland and gardens here that include a stupendous blueberry maze. House Proud: Jared Handelsman and Portia Munson Make Their Own Museum at Home 2012-09-19T21:51:29Z

Together they are responsible for more than 300 acres of the D.C. landscape. This flower power couple curates more than 300 acres of Washington’s downtown 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

Since mid-March, when production of “The Tonight Show” was shut down at NBC’s Rockefeller Plaza headquarters, Fallon has been hosting a homemade version of the program from his 2.2 acre spread in the Hamptons. Jimmy Fallon Is Sorry. But What Does That Mean? 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

With more than 2.2 million acres covering a variety of ecosystems in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park offers opportunities to hike, cross-country ski, fish, paddle, sightsee and more. At Montana’s Big Sky Resort, a new perspective on skiing 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Eight million people paid about 50 cents each to see buildings edged in light bulbs, sprawled across 350 acres at the suburban northern edge of this city. Echoes of an Exposition, and an Assassination 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

The 500 acres of parkland and gardens are home to sculptures by Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Anthony Caro, while the venue also has several indoor galleries. Sculpture park wins museum award 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

Many of them even share a multigenerational home on a converted farm in Egremont, Mass., occupying 15 pastoral acres in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains. Rethinking the In-Law Apartment as a Sunny Barn 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

At 3.4 million acres straddling the California and Nevada border, it is the largest national park outside of Alaska. This season, skip flowerless Death Valley for blooming Anza-Borrego Desert State Park 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

During the last half dozen years it has materialized almost like a mirage, levitating above more than a dozen gritty acres of working rail tracks on the Far West Side. Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

The Great Fire of London in 1666 destroyed much of the city: 273 acres were laid waste, 130,200 houses burned, 11 parish churches survived out of 89. Exhibition Review: Folger Library Traces London’s Rise 2012-06-28T22:04:46Z

It is designed with two long arms and a central space — the whole thing encloses an acre — with doors allowing experiments with different groups. 'Dog Days, Raven Nights': John and Colleen Marzluff chronicle the complicated world of ravens 2011-04-28T20:04:10Z

For the opening shot, set to Jim Morrison singing "This is the end", several acres of palm trees in the Philippines were doused with 1,200 gallons of gasoline. Apocalypse Now: No 1 2010-10-19T10:54:00Z

In addition to the obvious underground attraction, Mammoth Cave features over 80 miles of trails, traversing 53,000 acres of hardwoods, bluffs and hills bisected by the Green River and bypassing sinkholes and cave entrances. Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky’s underground rock star 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Opened in 2005, the Aureum Palace Hotel sprawls across 27 acres and encompasses a sushi bar, spas, fountains, more than 40 guest rooms and 72 villas. Visiting Myanmar: It’s Complicated 2012-08-03T16:32:39Z

Colorado has more than 23 million acres of public lands on which there’s lots of fishing. Casting in Colorado, Away From the Crowds 2012-08-22T19:37:27Z

He was turning around like he had acres of room under his feet and now he was walking backwards so he could see Becca and Joe's progress. Wilderness by Sarah Hall 2013-03-18T13:22:56Z

To see how the other one-half of the 1 percent lived, visit Glensheen, a 39-room mansion on seven acres of manicured lakefront grounds. Gas is cheap. D.C. is hot. Here’s how far $100 worth of gas will take you this summer. 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Best for no-dig gardening @charles_dowding Charles Dowding is the king of no dig for a reason: a flawless, almost weed-free veg garden on just a ¼ acre. The 20 best garden Instagram accounts 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z

Sprawling across more than 2.2 million acres, the park offers more than 900 miles of trails worth exploring, yet we encountered only two other hikers. ‘Llama therapy’ in the wilds of Yellowstone National Park 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Those rights were ultimately controlled by Dakota-3, which also purchased from the tribal council drilling rights to another 44,000 acres of lands managed by the council. Land grab cheats North Dakota tribes out of $1 billion, suits allege 2013-02-25T19:43:00Z

He described it as “a few hundred acres of dirt, some clusters of old barns and outbuildings… a few beeves and hogs or a flock of sheep.” Whittaker Chambers relative: Farm need not be open to public 2012-10-18T16:17:00Z

The bed at the hotel was approximately one acre wide. In Search of Lost Me Time 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

Sustainable Oils hopes to harvest 40,000 acres in the coming year. Jet Green 2011-07-20T22:00:00Z

In the Amazing Maize Maze, located at the Queens County Farm Museum, visitors can embark on a scavenger hunt through acres of towering cornstalk on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in October and on Oct. Spooky Season Has Arrived in New York. Here’s What’s on Our List. 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

To the right is the Sheep Meadow, a vast space, really: 15 acres. Robert Caro Relaxes by Listening to People Drum in Central Park 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

As a confab of Nashville session musicians, the band had acres of bluegrass and country proficiency; more surprising was the fact that it came with a clear sound. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-09-05T21:33:00Z

Forty million acres: The entire state of Georgia couldn’t contain America’s total lawnage. There’s a water crisis. Why do we still have lawns? 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

He said he was inspired by Bob Duncan, who grows a wide variety of apples, peaches, pears, olives and citrus on three-quarters of an acre of land about an hour outside the city. Victoria, Canada is a small city with a big farm-to-table scene 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Its 174 acres attract not just mourners, but also walkers and birders who wander its manicured grounds, the first landscaped garden cemetery of its kind in the United States when it opened in 1831. A Low-Brow Day in Harvard’s Backyard 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

One summer after he graduated from the University of Chicago Sanders had paid $2,500 for eighty-five acres in Middlesex, a small town a few miles north of Montpelier, Vermont’s capital. Bernie Sanders’ hippie 20s: Drugs, free love and Vietnam! 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

Abu Dhabi’s Al Qudra Holding had promised in 2008 to acquire 1 million acres in a host of countries from Australia to Eritrea, Croatia to Thailand, and Ukraine to Pakistan. Don’t censor the school-lunch blog 2012-06-15T16:15:00Z

They live on about 200 acres of farmland that has been in the Washington family for centuries. A New Breed of Hunters Focuses on the Food 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

An army of staff members tends to the 166 rooms, seven beaches and 170 acres of meticulously maintained grounds. Slowing Down, Finding Hidden Paradise on St. John 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

Ms. Holmes and her father still plant chiles, but only on about 80 acres of the 1,200 they irrigate. Hard Times for a Hot Commodity, the Prized New Mexico Chile 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

There's an acre of soliloquy for every inch of action. House of Earth by Woody Guthrie – review 2013-02-14T12:00:01Z

It is to be built on 17 acres now occupied by parking lots between Soldier Field and McCormick Place. George Lucas Museum Chooses an Avant-Garde Architect for Chicago Site 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

Britney was held prisoner in her house, and we were also unable to leave our 100+ acre compound. I was in a cult. Britney was in a conservatorship. Our situations are crazy similar 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z

"This has led many Black farmers to lose millions of acres of farmland and robbed their families of building and passing on intergenerational wealth that the land represented." The USDA has discriminated against Black farmers for years. Can this legislation bring about change? 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

“Five acres, with its own pond. Back of the house is all glass, incredible views.” Gloria: a short story by Alice McDermott

The proposal led by the musician, whose real name is David Evans, called for five multilevel homes of up to 12,785 square feet to be built on 156 acres in the Santa Monica Mountains. Coastal agency rejects project led by U2 guitarist 2011-06-17T01:40:09Z

My midwife had told us about the Tenmile property: 25 acres for sale in a semi-intentional community located in Oregon's Coast Range. The fight to save our off-the-grid forest home 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z

In a partnership with the Nature Conservancy and the National Forest Service that was part of its B-Corp application, the ski area has been selectively trimming hundreds of acres of forest. Taos Had History and Mystique, but Few Skiers. Can a New Owner Change That? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

Sitting handsomely on more than 100 acres of land, this is one of the “smaller” chateaus in the area, with only 45 rooms. Three Californians, 1,500 miles, one rented VW: A long and winding road trip through central France 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

The former tech-industry workers began planting English and French cider apples on 30 acres of former strawberry fields. Day Tripper: No time for a wine-country overnight? Spend the day sipping on Vashon. 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

In 1962, forward-thinking citizens banded together to stop a luxury hotel from being built here, purchasing the area’s 55 acres at risk instead. In Boulder, Where Inner Peace Meets Outer Beauty 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

For two thousand dollars, all of it borrowed, he got five thousand acres. King of the banana republic 2012-06-03T21:00:00Z

There are hundreds of acres of wildlife refuges; in particular, the Missisquoi and Sand Bar protected areas are important stopovers for migratory birds. The Pastoral Isles of Lake Champlain 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

A total of 40 acres is wrapped in an extensive eight-foot deer fence. Preparing trees to go from green pastures to the concrete jungle 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

It is Sir Walter's idea for Robin to continue in his guise as his son since the family may lose its 5,000 acres if his son's death becomes known. "Robin Hood" drops tights in new extreme makeover 2010-05-10T04:13:00Z

These 200 acres provide a stop on the Atlantic Flyway for migrating birds, as well as the occasional bald eagle. Keeping a Distance, From Everything but Nature 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

Surrounding the garden at Chatsworth is the Park, nearly a thousand acres of grasslands and forested ridges. The Parks That Made the Man Who Made Central Park 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

Department of Agriculture cites heirs’ property laws as the leading cause of Black involuntary land loss, “contributing to land loss from 16 million to 4.7 million acres over the last hundred years.” With "Silver Dollar Road," Raoul Peck travels to the heart of Black land loss through one family 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z

The majority of the 5,500 acres surrounding High Camp are owned by Weyerhaeuser. Scottish Lakes camp gets new owners, new name and year-round opening 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

That's good news, because each of the four designs is too busy, tries too hard and packs too many elements into the park's 2 acres. Two downtown L.A. parks and the tricky task of designing them to best serve the city 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

With hundreds of acres of parkland, including the New York Botanical Garden and the Bronx Zoo, the Bronx is New York’s greenest borough. Canoe through the Bronx 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

It gobbles up more acres than it needs to. Obama Presidential Center greeted with excitement and wariness on Chicago's South Side 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Part of that stems from the urban raw deals Boyle Heights has gotten over the last half century: The 135 acres of freeway that run indiscriminately through the neighborhood. How artists became capitalist 'foot soldiers' in the gentrification wars: Case study, Boyle Heights 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

It’s nice,” Mr. Juliano said recently while leading a tour of the arboretum, 13 ½ gated acres in Summit. | New Jersey: Reeves-Reed Arboretum in Summit Expands Its Offerings 2013-08-09T20:46:37Z

After the surgery, Cid was cleaned up and the swarms of nurses and doctors, buzz of medical chatter, acres of surgical bedsheets and nests of tubes and machines receded like a wave. Stitching together Cid's manhood: in the operating room for a female-to-male surgery 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

But in 2015 that did happen, with more than 5 million acres – an area as large as Massachusetts – lost to wildfires. North to Alaska in Dave Eggers' new 'Heroes of the Frontier' 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

Over about 30 years, Ms. Norton transformed a quiet estate, set on a little more than two acres, into this verdant tropical garden, with a canopy so dense that the sun could barely filter through. Like Joseph Stella’s Paintings? You’ll Love These Botanical Gardens. 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

It is flat, largely featureless, the vegetable fields and grazing acres dotted now and then by a factory or a forbidding convenience store with men in front swigging Gatorade or more numbing beverages. I Hopped a Plane Just for a Barbecue Sandwich. I’d Do It Again. 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

One of the region’s biggest peanut-processing plants is nearby, so Mr. Oliver started pressing raw green runner peanuts, the kind that are harvested on about 700,000 acres in Georgia each fall. Hatched From Peanuts, the South’s Hot New Oil 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

Dozens of craters crowd this desert plot, four acres of scrub brush in Rancho Mirage rimmed by reddish-brown mountains. Desert X aims to be the Coachella of the art world. Here's a sneak peek 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Those 2 to 5 million additional acres we need for our massive shift to vegetables? We need to feed a growing planet. Vegetables aren’t the answer. 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

As huge as it is — 54 landscaped acres and the world’s second-largest tennis stadium — the event site invites an intimacy in the early rounds that is reminiscent of baseball’s spring training. Indian Wells tennis tournament draws fans — and top players — to Palm Springs 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

It has largely excluded people of color, said Leni Sorensen, 78, a farmer and master of home provisioning who for 30 years has run Indigo House on five acres she owns in Crozet, Va. For Black Jam Makers, the Power Is in Preserving 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

As a result, U.S. farmers are growing more acres of corn than any other year since the bad old days of the Dust Bowl. Food corporations’ big drought play 2012-08-09T21:35:00Z

In the meantime, he's put the whole place - 73 acres - up for sale for $1.4 million. North Carolina gets ready for 'Hunger Games' fans 2012-03-21T16:09:14Z

But increasingly these are connected by acres of tedium. Have you been watching ? Entourage 2011-03-22T14:19:48Z

But it rested on 90 hillside acres that could insulate him from an outside world he found increasingly trivial, irrelevant and intrusive. 2010-01-28T21:05:00Z

It's about a father and a son who are very different people, and who get closer by hitting little white balls on acres of grass. Golf stories: an oasis and metaphor for the multiple rounds of life 2011-06-15T19:39:04Z

Mr. Bok’s passion for color is evident in the 50 Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.-designed acres that are the core of Bok Tower Gardens. 6 Great Gardens to Visit in Florida 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

In England right up to the 1930s, when people made good money, they would buy an estate of 5,000 acres and they’d have to look after Nanny. For Julian Fellowes, after 'Downton' and 'School of Rock' comes 'The Gilded Age' 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

A new high-speed quad chairlift known as Cloudchaser will add 635 accessible acres of terrain at Mount Bachelor in Oregon by mid-December. 26 Ways That Skiing Gets Better This Season 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Karura Forest, in the middle of the city, offers more than 2,500 acres of trails, bicycles to rent and a little history. 36 Hours in Nairobi, Kenya 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Lancie had forty acres of corn at a time when corn was selling at hardly more than it cost to raise it. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z

A game show asks questions about African American history, promising 40 acres and a mule as the prize. Review | Daring idea, but flawed e xecution, in ‘Day of Absence’ 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

As to the farm itself, villagers from the town harvest olives, cork and fruit and tend the animals, which free-range through the more than 1,200 acres of woods and brush. Digging Up Family Roots in Sicily 2013-08-16T16:15:11Z

At 13.2 million acres, it’s larger than each of eight U.S. states, including Maryland. U.S. national parks are full of the deepest, tallest and biggest 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

Mount Bachelor, among the Pacific Northwest’s largest ski resorts, is 30 minutes to the west of town, with 4,300 acres for snowboarding, downhill skiing and Nordic skiing. 8 New Hotels for Winter Enthusiasts in the U.S. and Europe 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z

There are many caves at Caves Branch Adventure Company and Jungle Lodge, the resort I’ve signed up with for this caving excursion and owner of the 58,000 acres in which this cave sits. Beneath the surface — caving and diving — Belize is breathtaking 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, the plantation has shrunk from its original thousands of acres to a mere six, and its buildings, once filled with the normal messiness of day-to-day life, are museum pieces. Looking for Clementine Hunter’s Louisiana 2013-06-14T20:04:57Z

But for an uncompromising farmer on a hillside vineyard, two tons an acre was enough. A Tale of Two Vineyards 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

This spring, the long-awaited Chaplin’s World will open on 35 wooded acres at his former estate in Vevey, with an artifact-filled Modern Times Museum, contemporary art gallery, outdoor festival site and film center. 52 Places to Go in 2016 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Everybody’s on a suburban lawn, or passing through the desert, or traipsing through a field of wheat, or somewhere on a safe-looking acre or so of woods. Budweiser and the Selling of America 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

With its hellish fires and acres of dead computers, its wandering cattle and scavenging inhabitants, Agbogbloshie is a rubbish dump and reclamation site for defunct electronic goods. The Deutsche Börse photography prize 2012-07-10T16:51:34Z

The 96-room resort, on a well-located lot that once was going to be used for condo development, will spread over two acres fronting the Key West Historic Seaport. A New Resort in Key West 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

In later years, as president, he would set aside 230 million acres of land. Lots of wildlife and no crowds at North Dakota’s Roosevelt National Park 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Each property contains about 30 to 50 structures on double-digit acres of sylvan land. With no contact and substantial space, Getaway’s tiny houses were ahead of their time 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

But over here, we have Camille, Kelsey Grammer's wife, who has four nannies, 17 acres and a private jet, but still needs to "get a little attention" for herself, according to her husband. Are "The Real Housewives" really flesh-eating zombies? 2010-10-16T23:01:00Z

This is an empire no longer expanding or fracturing but greedily staking its claims on every last acre. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are back — and all growed up 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

Today not a scrap remains of the collective farm that Chaim and others struggled to sustain here on a few precipitous acres. When History Speaks 2010-10-02T04:09:00Z