As ecological farmers, we can nurture the process of forming rich soil and healthy crops
How is it that this planet is covered in a mantle of green? How is it that since the dawn of human memory, plants have grown and flourished, creating tropical paradise or forests and meadows so lush and fair that poets and bards have sung of their beauty for millennia?
Even in the coldest polar regions, wherever a bare patch of the planet is exposed, plant life finds a toehold and survives as algae and mosses begin the slow process of colonizing the surface. Not even the blazing heat or extreme aridity of equatorial deserts can stop plants from growing. Not even volcanic eruptions nor radioactive meltdowns have been able to prevent plant life from taking over any available surface of the earth in its own due time.
The first astronauts that landed on the moon with their bulky pressurized space suits took samples from the lunar surface and brought them home to Earth for analysis. Since then, humans have sent probes to Mars and several asteroids to gather samples of material. In all cases, it has been discovered that Moon rocks, Mars rocks and the like are similar in composition to Earth rocks. So far, in our discovery of the solar system, rocks are rocks.
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