Our new mulch machine is the most amazing  lawn mower I've ever touched.  It starts on one light pull, and runs so quietly and smoothly!  Then out of its bag comes delicious clippings which, after drying on a tarp on a sunny day, turn into what Organic Gardening Magazine decided is both the most aesthetically pleasing and the most nutritious  (highest nitrogen) mulch around.

Last year, I struggled to keep the "lawn" mowed.  This year, I'm begging the grass and weeds to grow faster!  One cutting yielded only enough to mulch a single asparagus bed and I've got a couple hundred more beds in need of weed control.  I guess I'll have to hunker down and deal with weeds the old fashioned way.

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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