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I sold my farm and moved back to a small lot.   It's a decent sized yard on a residential street in an urban area.   I'll share a "before" picture from the open house too.   It was a flat, bare, monoculture grass yard.   This was my third summer of working on it.  





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You have a lot of space to create some gardening. I look forward to seeing what it turns out to be.
John S
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Thanks John, it really looks nothing like that flat open bare yard now lol.  
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Nice pictures!  Ours was just grass with one maple tree and lots of herbicides.  To improve the soil, they used pesticides! It was a hard, dead block of clay when we moved here, but now it is good soil, with a wonderfully diverse food forest.  Nice to have some interesting shady spots when it is in the 90's and 100's F.  Food from our yard every month of the year.  My dog just loves to run around, chase squirrels, and scratch and sniff.  Small birds and pollinators everywhere.

John S
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