We soon discovered, however, that our soil was unyielding, clay-heavy and strewed with rubble.
In previous, much tinier gardens, I’d circumvented such difficulties with a few bags of high-quality soil from the nursery.
I now see soil not simply as a medium for life, but as a living entity in its own right — one that is rapidly going extinct.
In some parts of the world, intensive farming, overgrazing and deforestation are destroying soil up to 1,000 times as fast as the base line rate of erosion.
The eradication of soil could culminate in the collapse of complex terrestrial life — unless we rethink our relationship to the world beneath our feet.
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Portland , Ore