Errol
Errol (aka Daddy) is Anna's
father. He lives with his partner, Barbara, in South Carolina
where they manage to grow a lot of their own vegetables despite
drought, overwhelming heat, and scary encroaching grasses.He's a jack of all trades and a master of many who has worked as a teacher, grant-writer, builder, tobacco farmer, and director of a hospitality center (and probably some other things Anna, who is writing this, doesn't know about.)
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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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I tried without any luck to post this in the clover thread.
You might want to try red clover for a cover crop. I did fall before last with these results. The clover came up small in the fall, then grew large in early spring, which I then tilled under as green manure. last summer, not a sign of it, but this fall and winter it came back and now is much larger than it was the first fall (when it got planted late). So it is not a weed during growing season but seeds itself for another year.