As in the Spanish and American periods, public lands were made available for favoured private interests in agri-business, including foreign interests (using leasing arrangements to avoid the constitutional prohibition on foreign acquisition of land).

I found down at the side of the house the remains of what must have once been a kitchen garden. Everything was choked with weeds and scutch grass, but the outlines of bed and drill were still there.

Carbonic acid is disengaged, and rises viewlessly into the atmosphere; nitrogen rushes into combination with hydrogen, and sends up invisible volumes of ammoniacal gas; […]

Can I sleep over?