“[Houmas House , 40136 La. 942, Darrow, east bank: Once the largest sugar plantation in the South, Houmas House is one of the most spectacular antebellum homes on River Road. New Orleans businessman Kevin Kelly acquired the property in 2003 and restored it to the golden era the early 1800s.] Many people seem to think everything east of Baton Rouge is gone, ... We need to let the world know we are still here. We need to let New Orleans people know we have a great restaurant, Latil's Landing. Our wine cellar has a 500-label collection. Water cisterns were converted to wine cellars. We placed dining tables in them and people can now have romantic dining there.”
Kevin Kelly
“While the birds still thrive on large, intensively managed quail plantations in north Florida, their numbers have declined in south Florida where changing land-use patterns have altered their preferred habitat. In fact, the landscape has changed so much that extensive tracts of land have become completely unproductive for quail.”
Bill Giuliano
“They got their composure back. I have to salute them on that. But South Plantation, you can't take anything away from them. [Paladins' coach] Kenny Brown is doing an excellent job with them.”
Melvin Randall
“Finally I paid every bill. My plantation in Pennsylvania had been sold and nothing was left to me but my humble talents.”
John James Audubon
“Cashew nuts are not a plantation-based nut. It's wild. It grows everywhere. Because of that, the cost of production is literally little.”
George Paulose
“In tandem with our hands-on approach to transforming a plantation of only pine into a hardwood forest, we've also witnessed the natural regeneration of native trees and shrubs ... on an additional 400 acres.”
John Graham
“We've just evolved into a system that's more equitable and allows a more detailed accounting of access into the plantation.”
George Breed
