Over the course of 7 years, my wife Denise and I turned our North Austin yard into an urban microfarm. What was once a lawn became lush veggie gardens, buzzing with bees. Up to a dozen chickens would scratch and peck, producing more eggs than we could eat. In an average year, we’d compost more than 10 tons of organic material collected from neighbors and nearby businesses. Many plants grew unusually large and surprisingly dense with flowers.
We didn’t start that way and it wasn’t easy.
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While large harvests are exciting, my favorite is succession gardening in which I stagger plantings every 2-3 weeks so I can have a steady, if modest harvest all season long. Clockwise from left: crumble cap mushroom, yellow pear tomatoes, eggs, Anaheim pepper, golden jubilee tomato, purple onion.
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