PRINT | E-MAIL. In September of 1942, Lt. Col. William L. Plummer, with a handful of officers and enlisted men, made his way through the long pines and palmetto scrub of rural South Dade County to assume control of an isolated airstrip located about a mile inland from the shore of Biscayne Bay.
gardener. 1  a person who likes or is skilled at working in a garden. 2  a person whose occupation is making and tending gardens.
: the science, art, or practice of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock and in varying degrees the preparation and marketing of the resulting products. â agÂ·riÂ·culÂ·turÂ·ist \Ëa-gri-ËkÉl-ch(É-)rist\ or agÂ·riÂ·culÂ·turÂ·alÂ·ist \-ch(É-)rÉ-list\ noun.