Q: I want to cover a 30-by-100-foot garden in wood chips because it is on a slope, and the soil drains so fast that it has lost a lot of its nutrients. Where can I get free wood chips? — Merle Need, ...

In a typical lumber mill, logs are cut down into pieces of lumber, then sawed and planed into smooth boards for use as flooring or cabinetry. But at Modern Mill in Mississippi, workers don’t fell ...