Digging Soil Pits
Soil color can tell us a lot about what going on down there (black for organic matter, red & yellow for iron, white for calcium carbonateā¦) We dug pits for a research project looking at high-elevation hay meadows and thought about how deep-rooted perennial grasses (like Kernza š¾!) can energize soil formation and organic matter storage in these prairie soils
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