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The Cluster Fig
Atti Mara (centre) at Lemon Tree Plantations Ficus racemosa, the cluster fig, is one of several shade trees on the plantation, and once I became aware of it, I began to see it everywhere: a large, sometimes gnarled presence, its rough leaves catching the afternoon light, its trunk dense with the weight of years. The Kannada name is ಅತ್ತಿ ಮರ — atti mara — and it carries that quality of a word that has always existed, that you find in every language that has lived close to this
Lemon Tree Plantations
Mar 222 min read
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Robusta Coffee Cherries at Lemon Tree Plantations Lemon Tree Plantations is a family-owned estate in Hydur Village, nestled in the gently hilly country twelve kilometres from Sakleshpur in Hassan District, Karnataka. We came to this land in 2008 — not as inheritors of a dynasty but as people who simply wanted a piece of the Western Ghats to call our own. The name was chosen on a whim, for the way it sounded. The land, though, turned out to be more serious than the name. The
Lemon Tree Plantations
Mar 161 min read
The Cluster Fig
Atti Mara (centre) at Lemon Tree Plantations Ficus racemosa, the cluster fig, is one of several shade trees on the plantation, and once I became aware of it, I began to see it everywhere: a large, sometimes gnarled presence, its rough leaves catching the afternoon light, its trunk dense with the weight of years. The Kannada name is ಅತ್ತಿ ಮರ — atti mara — and it carries that quality of a word that has always existed, that you find in every language that has lived close to this
Lemon Tree Plantations
Mar 22
About / Our Story
Robusta Coffee Cherries at Lemon Tree Plantations Lemon Tree Plantations is a family-owned estate in Hydur Village, nestled in the gently hilly country twelve kilometres from Sakleshpur in Hassan District, Karnataka. We came to this land in 2008 — not as inheritors of a dynasty but as people who simply wanted a piece of the Western Ghats to call our own. The name was chosen on a whim, for the way it sounded. The land, though, turned out to be more serious than the name. The
Lemon Tree Plantations
Mar 16
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