Starbucks gave us worms. Indirectly. What Starbucks actually gave us was used coffee grounds, and putting used coffee grounds in the soil is an excellent way of building up your worm population

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The first (and biggest) problem was that it was hard as a rock. Literally. The first time we used a roto tiller in the front yard, the tiller bounced. The blades couldn’t get into the soil, so the tiller just bounced up and down. What I thought was going to take a few hours of work (look at it! It’s a small front yard!), took three days. Three very long hard days. It was the beginning of what has come to be a continual drive to amend the soil.

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