How do you get from dying grass to thriving food? After several months staring at our new backyard, it was finally time to figure it out. I painted an outline of our future garden bed on the grass and booked a mini excavator to dig up the kikuyu, knowing it was too big and too hard to do it by hand. We’re in a new estate in west Lake Macquarie and the ground is a mixture of clay and building rubbish. When the machine arrived I was a bundle of excitement. Six hours later, star