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The human craving for fresh fruits and vegetables is universal, from the humble gardens of the Sahara to the sixteenth-century Château de Villandry in France’s Loire Valley, where a former French finance minister built his castle with an elaborate vegetable garden to keep the staff and family fed. Here agriculture becomes fine art, with ten full-time gardeners tending 17 acres of organic fruit, vegetable, and ornamental gardens that draw some 360,000 visitors each year. The gardens
of Villandry boast more than 100,000 flowering and vegetable plants, including pumpkins, the bright orange dots in the central square that ripen just before the fall garden festival held around the first of October each year.

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The human craving for fresh fruits and vegetables is universal, from the humble gardens of the Sahara to the sixteenth-century Château de Villandry in France’s Loire Valley, where a former French finance minister built his castle with an elaborate vegetable garden to keep the staff and family fed. Here agriculture becomes fine art, with ten full-time gardeners tending 17 acres of organic fruit, vegetable, and ornamental gardens that draw some 360,000 visitors each year. The gardens <br /> of Villandry boast more than 100,000 flowering and vegetable plants, including pumpkins, the bright orange dots in the central square that ripen just before the fall garden festival held around the first of October each year.

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