The ground beneath me, the air around me – what is one other thing that is always here that I may have forgotten to be grateful for?

That ground beneath us, though. . . In the time of rapid and accelerating global climate change, the living soil is one of the largest, most effective, and greatly underappreciated carbon sinks around the entire planet. We’ve depleted over half of our topsoil in the US by ways of mono-cropping, rampant inefficient mechanical cultivation methods (namely, tilling), and urea (petroleum-based) fertilizers.

“The farmer’s primary task is to produce soil. We must give back more than we take from it. The earth itself will calculate the interest—no significant amount— for each person according to his service” (Vladimir Fokin)