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Off-grid Ozarks family of 9 opens summer garden, where bees and sweet potatoes take over

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A family of nine living off-grid in the Ozarks on 20 acres has transformed their property using permaculture—including fruit trees, sweet potatoes, rhubarb, potatoes, a mulberry tree, paw paws, chestnuts, swales, and pollinator-supporting features—into a resilient food-producing landscape that demonstrates water retention and perennial crop systems.

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