Visual Soil Assessment

Outside, it feels like spring! I had massive quantities of dirty dishes saved up, but I didn't even need to wear a jacket while I washed them! What bliss.

Truly, the weather was magnificent today. I spent a half hour doing a Visual Soil Assessment. Everyone—even those in the city—should do this fun exercise. Graham Shepherd developed a simple method of analyzing the soil, a simple way of monitoring soil improvement.

With a small, square spade, I dug out a cube of soil and dropped it into a box from about a yard high. I did that three times, and then spent some time observing what my soil looked like. Two of my three samples were poor, with one on the very low side of moderate.

You, too, should do this fun exercise. See what you look at. It takes 20 minutes or less. All you need to know is here.

We stopped at the Bessette's. Their chicks hatched, so we saw little hour-old chicks. Tiny and cute.

Other than that, we ate dinner at the Hoovers, one of the two pastor/elders of our church. Abigail was the only girl of the eight children there. I love being the beneficiary of hospitality.