Hey, wipe the dirt off your face. Better put that shirt in the laundry. In some places, like your mother's dining room floor, dirt is never welcome. Plants depend on nutrients in the soil to grow.
Animals feed off the plants, or eat the animals that eat the plants.
It's all interconnected - without healthy soil to grow crops, human civilization would collapse. Soils in forests, prairies, and rich cultivated fields were all created by the long process of living, dying and decomposing. In honor of a new exhibit called Dirt that opens at Montshire on Saturday, we'll be exploring some more dirty truths about soil science this week. Tuesday We all know we need healthy, nutritious soil to grow productive flowerbeds or vegetable gardens. Most soils are called mineral soils because more than 80 per cent of their particles are minerals.