A novice's attempt to get 15 percent of his food from his suburban fifth acre
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 23rd, 2009
This objective has all kinds of oddities wrapped up in it – little efforts I never imagined engaging in, not even up to the moment of doing. Take today, for instance. In trying to reduce the percent of our property covered in grass, I spent part of the morning removing a rather modest square-footage from [...]
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