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2 weeks worth of newspapers from 3 houses, several flattened moving cartons, 3 bales of spoiled straw, 2 piles of sun-dried grass clippings. Next: 6 trash cans of mulch, and a lot of chopped leaves in the fall. In a couple years, I might have topsoil on that clay.

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