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Adventures in Backyard Agriculture: Building the Pico-farm.

Posted on July 4, 2011July 4, 2011 By Andrew Thaler 11 Comments on Adventures in Backyard Agriculture: Building the Pico-farm.
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Several months ago, I began a new personal challenge to live more sustainably. I wanted to do something more substantial and larger in scale than the conventional methods of reducing your environmental impacts, which involve changes in habit, not changes in lifestyle. After many discussions, Bluegrass Blue Crab and myself decided it was time to try our hands at backyard agriculture.

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