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Practicing Resurrection: Using Green Manures on a Small Semi-Urban Homestead

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The quarter acre I steward in Northeastern Pennsylvania is, I hope, an incarnation of this contradiction. The planting window for these crops is broad here in the upper mid-Atlantic, and I can get a decent cover of perhaps three inches of resilient green leaves prior to the deep winter freeze. This year was weird.

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