ABSTRACT
Most people are soil blind. They walk on soil, they gaze at it on the horizon, they gain pleasure and sustenance from its bounty, but soil itself goes unseen, unappreciated. Modern life conspires to remove us from any connection to or awareness of soil. We spend a lot of time looking down, not at the soil, but at the various devices that connect us to our techno-ed world. Those of us who understand the importance of soil can bemoan the sad state of affairs as evidenced by the story of the schoolchild who visited a farm for the rst time and, when presented with a carrot freshly pulled from the earth, proclaimed, “I’m not going to eat that-it’s been in the ground!”
