Let alone seek revenge by annexing the manors of your enemies.
—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
4 Feb. 2026
Virginia‘s countryside is dotted with traditional farmhouses and manors, but one in the foothills of the Southwest Mountains has been given a contemporary twist by a New York architect.
The gringos are coming, and Latour must shore up the diocese, trekking between isolated haciendas and pueblos with his quasi-spousal companion Father Vaillant.
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The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
7 Jan. 2026
While arched passageways reference those found in classic haciendas, the walls are hand-finished in quintessentially Mexican chukum plaster.
At their regular density levels in Australian farmlands, the researchers estimated that brown snakes alone might remove thousands of mice annually for every square kilometer of farmland.
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Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
15 Mar. 2026
At the beginning of the twentieth century, men were increasingly working in offices, rather than in factories or on farms.
—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
However, Nicklaus had begun efforts two years ago to prioritize fresh produce from local farms in its hospital cafeteria and patient dining facilities.
—
Cindy Krischer Goodman,
Sun Sentinel,
30 Mar. 2026
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