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Smithsonian Magazine: The Shocking Savagery of America's Early History

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))2/23/2013 4:01:50 am PST

re: #178 Guanxi88

The chickens were a strategic decision, you know. With this crappy soil, the garden would need TONS of material to amend it.

Before we kept chickens in the back yard, I was able to cut it with a push mower. After a summer of chickens shitting on it, I had to buy a power mower to get through it…