Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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-Mark Nagel
Everett, WA


Full article: http://www.emagazine.com/view/?3344

The Scoop On Dirt
Why We Should all Worship the Ground We Walk On

by Tamsyn Jones

It’s one of nature’s most perfect contradictions: a substance that is 
ubiquitous but unseen; humble but essential; surprisingly strong but 
profoundly fragile. It nurtures life and death; undergirds cities, forests 
and oceans; and feeds all terrestrial life on Earth. It is a substance few 
people understand and most take for granted. Yet, it is arguably one of 
Earth’s most critical natural resources—and humans, quite literally, owe 
to it their very existence.

>From the food we eat to the clothes we wear to the air we breathe, humanity 
>depends upon the dirt beneath our feet. Gardeners understand this 
>intuitively; to them, the saying “cherish the soil” is gospel. But for 
>the better part of society, dirt barely gets a sideways glance. To most, 
>it’s just part of the background, something so obvious it’s ignored.