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We Bought a Home with a Sterile Suburban Yard. Our Journey To Bring Life Back is Just Beginning

Modern Farmer

We had grand plans to install a curated pollinator garden in the front and a vegetable garden with a managed meadow in the back. Livestock, heavy machinery and hikers along mountain paths create compaction, not just lawns. However, lawns consist of just a few grass species whose roots mainly hit the same shallow soil level.

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