Noses wrinkled and head held high as we avoid it.
It is kept at arms length with shovel handles and spray bottles.
Keep it at a distance. Uninvolved and unmoved.
Focus on the quick and away from the dirty and real.
Sometimes, the most important things around us, we take for granted.
Soil full of life.
Full of the memories of how it was treated and what was once sown and thought hidden.
Full of the memories of how it was treated and what was once sown and thought hidden.
Soil is where yesterday, today and tomorrow merge and link arms.
Where the debris of the years is broken into particles and covered with the debris of today. Birds, worms, organisms and humans mix the layers.
Soil is where the broken, diseased, decayed and imperfect become treasure.
Where is diversity is invited and created.
"An exuberantly healthy soil is the cornerstone of a sustainable garden. The virtues bestowed by a living, fertile soil are legion. When we pack the growing earth with organic matter, via thick mulch, self-renewing roots, and buried debris, we're beckoning the industrious workers of the soil. Worms, tiny beetles and mites, bacteria, fungi, and a host of other helpers arrive to feast on the offerings and on each other.
They churn and tunnel and munch and spawn, chiseling minerals from rock and humus, all the while loosing a veritable avalanche of fertility to be shared with plants. The plants themselves shelter, feed, and are nourished and protected by whole communities of soil life in a mutually beneficent partnership."
Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway (Published 2009)P. 95
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