Soil is alive!
Dig your hand into some soil. You’ve just scooped up billions of living organisms – some big, some small. Soil is home to creatures like earwigs, mites, worms and beetles. But the unsung heroes of soil are tiny bacteria and fungi that are invisible to your naked eye. There are millions of them in just a teaspoon full of soil and without them, plants would struggle to survive.
Remains of ancient rock
Soil is Earth’s skin: soft, brown and beautiful. But this precious substance originally comes from rocks that have been eroded by the wind, water and Sun over hundreds and thousands of years, broken into increasingly tinier pieces until they’ve become soil. Soil particles contain minerals, which are chemicals like nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, calcium, and…