Building up and protecting soil

From the Scoop on Dirt, I was interested by the origins of the word dirt. I never knew that dirt came from the word drit which means excrement... Unpleasant but interesting! It is so cool that up to nine million microbes can be in only one gram of soil. It's incredible that American's erode about 3.5 tons of soil every year.

Next time i'm in my garden I will look to see how many worms I can count while I'm working.

This article made me question how many tons of soil the average Canadian erodes annually. I also wonder what it would look like if we were to look at a sample of dirt under a microscope. It must look so cool with all those organisms in it!