One Ground

Believe it or not, but the earth only has one ground. That ground must be shared 6 billion people and trillions of anilmals across 6 continents and four oceans.That is right! Erosion makes the dirt that you step on today the same dirt that farmers in Africa are trying to use in a few years.

Why is this relevant?

As Americans, we are prone to want everything perfect. Whether it is keeping our lawns from being eaten, having a weed free garden bed, or keeping organisms off of our perfectly round vegetables. As a way to achieve our perfection, we trun to pesticides. Pesticides are any chemicals that are intended to keep away any pests, and this gardening phenomenon has been growing at an alarming rate since the early 1990's. As a result, people are unknowingly eating these "pest killers" in their food, whether it is home grown or imported. If you use pesticides on your own soil, you are inhibiting the growth of needed nutrients in plants across doors, counties, states and seas. Ingestion of these chemicals by any living being is known to cause some bad side effects. As a concluding result, plants are dying, animals are dying, and water is being contaminated.

So how can one help to stop this growning lethal ingestion? Easilly! A person can pull weeds themselves and let the crabgrass grow. As long as my life, my parents have always let the yard handle itself. The crabgrass doesn't even show any signs of disruption from the yard. Just let the plants grow and take it from there.