Leaving politics, her father took his family to Mississippi where he bought extensive acreage.

Rather than spend the money to uproot and replant vines, he said, they want to buy uncultivated acreage and plant it in the Bordeaux style.

Geyer continued to buy additional acreage as it became available, intent on preserving the area.

In another five years I doubted I'd be able to buy acreage.

People cash in on the high city prices and buy acreage up here, he explained.

I'd only planned to buy as much acreage as I could, and control of as many factories as possible.

Throughout California, they are are buying acreage to plant rows and rows of grapevines.

"They bought acreage on what had been a garbage dump, and I remember it took seven years before we had a lawn," she said.

Boeing is preparing for expansion by buying acreage while large parcels are available.

The property had been in Rockefeller hands since John D. Rockefeller bought acreage here in 1893.