I am having a lot of fun writing up these short essays describing just one thing about soil. Thank you for giving me space to explore this format. My goal is to make soil science ideas approachable and accessible for anyone interested in learning more. This collection is also a welcome structure for my writing practice.

Soils are so much more than just a pile of brown stuff in which plants grow. Soils exist in a vast diversity of colors, shapes, and forms. The observable properties of a soil depend on the context of it's formation. That is to say, the very nature of a soil depends on it's history. No single location on Earth has experienced exactly the same history. Therefore, no two soils are exactly the same. That means that every time we dig a hole or come across a soil while out and about, we are greeting a unique soil entity. There's something just wonderful about that.

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