Soil Fun Facts

There is soil in your dishes, in the paints on your walls, and in some of your favorite jewelry!

There are more organisms in a shovelful of dirt than there are people on the planet!

Many of the antibiotics we use to fight illnesses were derived from soil organisms!

Did you know it may take up to 500 years to produce one inch of topsoil!

There are more than 70,000 different kinds of soil in the United States!

Soil is great entertainment for anyone under the age of 5 (and some of us who are considerably older).