Taro thrives in the heat, providing a leafy harvest through the summer and starchy corms something like potatoes in the fall. All I need are enough storage bins to build a small, well-drained swamp.
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As pests go, moles aren’t the worst problem to have, unless you want a nice, level, neatly mowed yard. Moles aren’t compatible with that. If you have moles, you have mounds of soil in your yard excavated from the deep subsoil layers. Moles build stuff. I like them because of that, they do a lot of manual labor and I respect manual labor.
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If you decide to be self-sufficient and grow your own food, you’ll face yearly challenges unique to your location and adapt to them fairly quickly. Fine-tuning a garden to local conditions only takes a few years of experience, and then … Continue reading
