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It takes 500 years for nature to form only an inch of soil. With that math, 8 inches of topsoil took 4000 years of plant and animal life cycles returning the nutrients they pulled from the earth back to soil in the form of organic matter. Darke county soils are especially good because the region was at one time a swamp that was drained by man. Being a steward means caring for the soil in a way to allow it to be here for generations to come. Soil has a smell, especially when t

Its cold. Its frozen. We haven't seen a sign of mother nature since November. I am tired of the landscape being in the color scheme of snow, dead plants, and mud. Give me some color! That's one reason I started The Winter Tulip Project. But there is more to it than that. Its a project with students. 100% for charity. And it teaches so much. A few years back my students planted seeds one day in class. The very next day a student returned and said "where's the carrots?" The on