Friends and horticulturalists Charlotte Landolt and Letitia Jacot grow and mix herbs for their organic skin-care, syrup and tea company in a chalet about 12 miles from town.

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Cheer up the old folks with a cup of tea, invent the cure for cancer, soak up that excessive production of beer, grow vegetables, whatever.

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