My grandmother, who managed a working farm in my birthplace of Malta, gave me my first lesson on soil health when I was about seven. As we harvested lettuce for my rabbits, she said, "You cannot just take from the garden. You need to be prepared to give back." She taught me that feeding the soil with aged rabbit manure would in turn feed our plants. Neither she nor I knew how many tiny soil workers it took to turn rabbit manure into plant nutrients, but we could see that strong, healthy plants grew from our well-fed soil.
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