Nurture the soil
by The blog at woodlands.co.uk, 7 May, 2021, 3 comments
We tend not to think about soil very much, except perhaps when digging over a tough patch of weeds in the garden or if we see it being stripped from dry fields in a strong wind. We take soil for granted though we rely on it for our food - almost totally. Soil is a very thin layer covering the outer surface of the Earth. The earth’s crust varies in thickness from 3 miles in oceanic regions to 30 miles in continental areas - by comparison most soils are shallow and have little depth.
Sadly, the earth’s soils have been neglected and squandered throughout history. In America and Canada, deep ploughing of the prairies and subsequent drought left the ‘unanchored soil’ exposed to wind erosion. Read more...
