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coolthingsguyslike · 4 hours
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ketyoulater · 1 year
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headspace-hotel · 2 years
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I don't think it really hits for most people how much topsoil is an incredibly depleted resource that is virtually nonrenewable under current land management practices.
Topsoil you buy at a garden center most likely is not real topsoil, but rather simply compost mixed with sand. Many people have never touched topsoil. In vast swathes of inhabited land, topsoil simply does not exist anymore.
On the lawn care subreddit, people will occasionally be alarmed that their soil feels "mushy" and "soft" after the addition of lots of organic matter, or post something greatly alarmed about the area of "soft" soil in their yard.
These people would shit their pants in awe if they felt the soil in a forest. Their frame of reference for "soil" is so completely, sadly spoiled by compacted, concrete-like lawn dirt. This is a big reason I'm "anti-lawn." Lawns consistently have some of the worst, most devastated soil imaginable.
Topsoil is a LIVING community of microbes, plant roots, decaying organic matter, and perhaps most importantly of all, fungal mycelium. You cannot buy it. You cannot synthesize it. No amount of fertilizer will turn compacted lawn dirt into topsoil. It takes a hundred years to build one inch of topsoil.
In the USA, prairie soil was plowed up to make fields, and we all learned about the Dust Bowl in school, but we don't talk enough about the fact that plowing up the prairies engulfed half the country in devastating dirt storms that turned the sky black and had people choking and coughing up dirt all the time and sweeping deep drifts of dirt out of their houses. Like that happened. Damn.
What we did was something utterly devastating, the near total destruction of hundreds and hundreds of years' worth of an irreplaceable natural resource. And it's happened all over the country. We will never comprehend how much we lost when we lost the topsoil.
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heartnosekid · 8 months
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rubber ducky isopod leftover stimboard!
🩶-💛-🩶 / 💛-🩶-💛 / 🩶-💛-🩶
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thatsbelievable · 8 days
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shysideho · 1 month
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ROUND 2 BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND
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This time is one week instead of 1 day
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sleepsforest · 1 year
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follow the path? // 03/21/23
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julianplum · 1 year
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🐞 🌱 🥕 🪱 ✨ // garden & rainbow: prompt 9/10 for bring on spring art, a little late! gouache on hot press paper.
There’s no radish emoji, so pretend the carrot is doing it
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zegalba · 4 months
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theohnocorral · 1 year
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December 5th is WORLD SOIL DAY!!!!!
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Happy birthday dirt!
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Star wars confessions:
Each of our clone boys coming inside you the first time you tell them you love them during sex; just thinking of how they would react as they involuntarily nut inside you because of pure emotional feels is both just so hot and healing to me.
Idk; I'm a sucker for soft and steamy smut.
Feel free to reblog and add any headcannons if you want.
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heartnosekid · 8 months
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🩶 rubber ducky isopods!! 💛
💛-🩶-💛 / 🩶-💛-🩶 / 💛-🩶-💛
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cottaegecore · 1 month
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im like if a worm turned into a beautiful girl, but the want for dirt and sunlight never went away
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incognitopolls · 28 days
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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.
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