Super Soil

Soil is more than just dirt. It is a collection of decaying plants and animals, minerals, air, water, and living organisms like bacteria. God designed soil as part of his provision for life on earth.

• Many of the antibiotics we use when we’re sick come from soil bacteria.
• One tablespoon of soil can be home to billions of microscopic organisms.
• Some studies suggest that about half of all species on earth live in soil.
• Many different living things call soil home, including earthworms, bacteria, and many microscopic organisms.
• Soil comes in different colors, including dark brown, red, yellow, gray, white, and even blue and green. The colors come from the oxygen, iron, clays, and other elements in or missing from the soil.
• Around 95% of the world's food is produced from soil.
• There are many types of soil, including chalky, silty, and loamy.
• Soil provides important minerals for plant growth. When you eat the fruits and vegetables from those plants, you get their calcium, phosphorus, iron, magnesium, copper, and zinc.
• As they move through the earth, earthworms aerate (give oxygen to) the soil.
• World Soil Day is celebrated on December 5 each year.
• Over one million earthworms can live in just one acre of soil.