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getaways These families used their time at home to make improvements and create enviable backyards P h o to g rap hy by Be th M ann
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year after moving into their custom dream home and its surrounding 15 acres in south Chapel Hill, Erin Gwyn and Evan Gwyn have a sprawling sustainable garden with crops that would rival any grocery’s produce section: tomatoes and cucumbers, watermelon and blueberries, carrots and herbs; the list goes on. “We grow the things we like to eat and nothing that we don’t,” Erin says. “Our kids [Rory, 2.5, and 106