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<\/a>The Happy Homesteader would prefer to make all her own dirt but – hey – I’m already old here; I don’t have ten to twenty years to make a bunch of soil.\u00a0 So a few weeks ago, The Innocent Bystander and I went to the “dirt place” in nearby Weaverville and ordered up four yards of their dirt.\u00a0 Well, actually a mix of two different composts that the owner assured me would be “plant-ready.”\u00a0 We’ll see.\u00a0 Meanwhile, I gotta go sell my soul to pay for this miracle dirt.\u00a0 I also gotta think of ways to increase my composting here on The Little Half Acre cause that stuff is just too expensive.\u00a0 Period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will someone please explain to me how a l’il ole bit of dirt can cost a fortune?!?\u00a0 If you live where the existing dirt isn’t dirt at all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening"],"yoast_head":"\n
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<\/a>The Happy Homesteader would prefer to make all her own dirt but – hey – I’m already old here; I don’t have ten to twenty years to make a bunch of soil.\u00a0 So a few weeks ago, The Innocent Bystander and I went to the “dirt place” in nearby Weaverville and ordered up four yards of their dirt.\u00a0 Well, actually a mix of two different composts that the owner assured me would be “plant-ready.”\u00a0 We’ll see.\u00a0 Meanwhile, I gotta go sell my soul to pay for this miracle dirt.\u00a0 I also gotta think of ways to increase my composting here on The Little Half Acre cause that stuff is just too expensive.\u00a0 Period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"