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Grant Rayner
Hugelkultur
When my wife and I first got out to our new homestead, the first thing we did was dig up a garden. It rained most of May here on Canada's east coast so we lost some seedlings. Those that survived, however, gave us a pretty good crop out of that little postage stamp of a garden. Anyway, I'm chatting with a Facebook friend, who is 81 by the way, and she tells me that she tends her 'raised' gardens. It's called 'hugelkulture' from the German word 'hugel' meaning 'mound' or 'hill'. The idea is…
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