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In 2020, I left behind city life, moving from Dublin to my hometown of Portlaoise, where I became the custodian of a weedy pasture on the death of my father.
Since then, on a steep learning curve, I've been converting it into a productive, no-dig, suburban vegetable garden.
Email: kate@kateheffernan.ie