Adel's Grove - botanical oasis in the outback
September 15, 2011 // 3 CommentsWORDS BY ALISON GOTTS, PHOTOGRAPHS BY DIGBY GOTTS Travelling across the outback of northern Queensland, we stumbled across the extraordinary story of Albert de Lestang, who leased seventy five acres from the government in 1920, to experiment with food trees on a property near Lawn Hill, which was, and still is, an oasis in the desert. The place is called Adel’s Grove, after the initials of hi...
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