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Weighing in at up to 700 pounds, the elk stands as one of the biggest deer species on earth. But don’t think that just because an elk is large that it’s slow. A mature bull can run as fast as 40 miles per hour – they’ve even been able to outrun horses in short races.

i saw the protective gear motorcyclists wear and i couldn’t resist lol

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Sand, silt and clay aren't ingredients, they're particle sizes, and no amount of combining them will make soil if there's no organic matter.

Soil isn't a substance. You can't create it by stirring up ingredients. It's a living metropolis, almost an organism. It's full of order and communication. Soil is the plants that grow in it and the fungi that breaks down the plants when they die. Ants are a type of fully autonomous soil particle

And you absolutely can make soil. You can turn a sandy soil into a silty soil. You can add something with high organics (such as fresh compost) to clay, and with work, you can turn it into a viable soil. It's a fairly well known process. Use the right stuff and you can have things like rain gardens/bioretention facilities that are 90% sand, but also filled with plants. It's all in knowing what type of soil you're building in and what your end goal is.

It's another thing where in school people learn simple models and they don't realize there's anything beyond it.

And if you think soil science is only teaching simple models, you've very clearly have never picked up a textbook for a soil science class. There is so much math.

I see that the soil triangle makes sense if you take it as a descriptor of one specific aspect of soil, but if the average beginner gardener tries to learn about soil, they will run into lots of confusing sources that make it the main or even the only characteristic of soil.

And you're average gardner can and should know about their soil composition. You can send your soil in to get tested. If you know what your soil is made of you can be a better gardner and grow better whatever you're trying to grow.

The structural role of organic content is most often neglected, even though it is highly important. Home gardeners are taught to intensively till (breaking up soil layers), clean crop residues from their garden patches, use chemical fertilizers, and when they do add organic matter, it's manure or finished compost that doesn't provide the structural base that living roots and plant materials in various stages of decay do.

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we go where no one goes

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The Star, The Moon, The Sun.

The muses have inspired artist for centuries just like how women inspire us today.

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#much more comfortable being a woman when I realised it literally doesn’t have to mean anything  #unlock cis+ it’s good for you]