middleblog-a suburban babble brook book

Rich land

The topsoil is thick and dark in places here.  Three small rock-enclosed gardens boast herbs and well-loved flowers.  In a dip by the marshy lands surrounding the brook, the truck, trapped by a careless operator, tore great furrows in the moist, rich dirt. With a  bit of peat moss and a scrap of composted manure, this could be productive farmland. Again.