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Talking to school children earlier this week when planting trees it was clear they were fascinated by soils, particularly the wonderfully mind-boggling stat that there are more organisms in one tablespoon of healthy soil than there are people on earth!!
As landscape architects healthy soil is something close to our hearts but something that can go badly wrong. At terra firma we strive to put achieving healthy soils at the heart of our work.
Today we have been celebrating World Soil Day 2015 by looking at local soils and reminding ourselves of the multitude of important functions soil has and the threats that soils face.
Thanks to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations for keeping soils on the global agenda. Their website ( http://www.fao.org/soils-2015/about/en/ ) is worth a visit and is full of lots of educational resources.
