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Just Add Water, Hold the Dirt; At Hydroponics Farm, Growing Season Is Year-Round
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Loudoun County's only commercial hydroponics farm started with
two old friends, a high school reunion and a visit to Disney World.
The friends were Mary Ellen Taylor and Kathy Lentz, and the high
school reunion was their 20th. They and their husbands shared a
table, and talk turned to their common interest in gardening,
particularly hydroponics -- the cultivation of crops in water.
The conversation was hardly surprising, given that Taylor's
husband, Wally Reid, is a third-generation greenhouse grower and the
curator of the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington. Lentz's husband,
Dennis, an AOL ...
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Abaco Cays deals. (Market Monitor).(Abaco Beach Resort & Boat Harbour promotion)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Travel Agent
; The Abaco Beach Resort & Boat Harbour on Abaco in the Bahamas is offering the four-night "Keys to the Cays" package through Dec. 20...Town, ferry ride to Guana Cay and a ferry to Man o' War Cay. The package is priced at...
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Green Turtle Cay: Beautiful beaches and Goombay Smashes make a relaxing getaway.(The YACHTING LIFE/Destinations)(Great Abaco)
Magazine article from: Yachting
; ...east of the Gulf Stream, the Abaco Islands stretch for nearly 200...The largest island, Great Abaco, is the centerpiece of a jewel...shores. In the lee of these cays, the Sea of Abaco provides protected cruising...alike have found Green Turtle Cay's uneven coastline, beautiful...
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Regatta Time In Abaco. (includes list of winners)
Magazine article from: Yachting
; ...equally serious. Regatta Time in Abaco, now in its eighth year, is a...translucent beauty of the Sea of Abaco to Man O' War Cay and Treasure Cay, and culminate...boat must be devised. The entire Abaco community turns to with a will...
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AMBASSADOR ROOD READS AT ABACO SCHOOLS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...children. The Ambassador visited Treasure Cay, Abaco, where he read to 290 students from Treasure Cay Primary and Cooper's Town Primary Schools...administration attended the event. The visit to Abaco marked the 53rd and 54th school Ambassador...
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Loyalist settlement site located on Abaco in the Bahamas.
PR Newswire
; ...Albert Lowe Museum on Green Turtle Cay, a team of archeologists and historians...of the first Loyalist settlement on Abaco in The Bahamas. The Loyalists were...site, on the outskirts of Treasure Cay, Great Abaco, has the potential of being the Jamestown...
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Abaco islands still safe harbors for the laid back
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; MAN-O-WAR CAY, Bahamas - Only the...cruise ship to call in the Abaco islands. Electricity...War and Green Turtle cays that transmission lines...A dozen or more small cays (pronounced "keys") are sprinkled off Great Abaco Island, most populated...minimal impact on Great Abaco. Poke among ...
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Regatta time in Abaco. (column)
Magazine article from: Yachting
; ...Lodge, the Conch Inn, Treasure Cay Ltd., The William Brewer Co...course. The fourth, the Treasure Cay Race, moves the fleet from the...Turtle Cay. Regatta Time in Abaco culminates on July 4, Independence...great time--Regatta Time in Abaco!
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LYIN' LOW IN ABACO IT'S SO FRIENDLY THAT THESE VISITORS FOUND THEMSELVES AT A WEDDING RECEPTION
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; GREAT GUANA CAY, Bahamas -- Even the rushing...here at Nippers, Great Guana Cay's beach bar and grill, suddenly...melody called "Layin' Low in Abaco." The crowd began to swirl...of the so-called "Loyalist Cays" lying about 10 miles east of Marsh Harbor in the Abaco Group of the northeast ...
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Bahamas: when the going gets tough and the water shallow, it's time to call in the fleet. (sailing the Abaco Islands)
Magazine article from: Yachting
; ...button. I arrived in Marsh Harbour, Great Abaco's largest town, in the middle of a...big billfish were caught off Walker's Cay at the north end of the Abaco chain; then Penny Turtle, an elegant...island settlements on Man Of War and Elbow cays. As the weather cleared I pored over...
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FACING THE SEA OF ABACO; The pressure is off in the Bahamian village of Hope Town once the key lime pie is in hand and the fresh fish is in the pan.(TRAVEL)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; ...in our rented house on Elbow Cay, a narrow Bahamian out island...facing the aqua-colored Sea of Abaco. We arrived, as most visitors...capital of the large island of Abaco. From there we cabbed directly...for our first dinner to the Abaco Inn, long advertised in the...
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