![]() ![]() While he and Lise worked odd jobs, like taconite plant janitor, to make ends meet, Abazs spent years nurturing his soil with techniques modern agriculture has all but forgotten. “We wanted to renew an older homestead and take what was fallow and make it grow.” In its natural state, the soil here rejects most attempts to tame it. This abundance would’ve been impossible three decades ago, when Abazs, 53, and his wife, Lise, settled land that was long abandoned and partially reclaimed by surrounding woods. ![]() Unlike the farms of the state’s breadbasket, which typically grow a lot of just one thing, Abazs’s acreage yields a bounty fit for Suessian description: fields aflow with collard greens, pea pods, peppers, parsnips, beans, broccoli, and romaine a pumpkin patch and an apple tree. His soil teems with the ingredients for thriving crops-nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium-to such a degree Abazs claims his soil is three times more productive than southern Minnesota farms’. His days are filled with work, but at least the mosquitos aren’t out yet.īy summer’s end, his toil will produce an abundance rarely found in northern Minnesota. Everything is on a schedule, and right now, that means “everywhere is digging,” according to Abazs. Seedlings must be transplanted from trays to pots before eventually making their way into the ground. There’s manure to pile and compost to spread.
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