Urban Garden

Man has always been attracted to nature and as he has grown past his natural existence into a more communal life he has established settlements and cities across the landscape. However, the further that mankind moves away from nature the more diluted the human experience becomes. This need for nature in city life has been recognized since ancient times. The first recorded public gardens were documented in Babylon and they have been a fixture in urban life ever since. These gardens are an important part of urban living because they not only supply the denizens of the city with a healthy release from their day to day lives but they also provide a healthier atmosphere to live in. This is due to the fact that plants excrete oxygen and consume toxic CO2 in the atmosphere thus eating pollution and making the city’s air cleaner.

Community gardens in today’s civilization give the locals a place to play but they also serve another purpose, they teach children (and other city dwellers) about sustainability. This is important because they would not learn these practices otherwise. Living in an urban environment, often leads humans to become detached from nature but gardens can teach the youth how to provide for themselves. Gardens are also ornamental which adds a certain level of beauty to the landscape. There is another benefit to urban gardens and that is that the food produced in them can benefit those in need. Obviously, there is not enough food to feed all of the starving but every little bit helps. The EPA has a site on the internet that is entirely dedicated to creation and maintenance of Urban Gardens.

12 Soil Orders

There are twelve different soil orders in the world. The soil orders are distinct and reflect the natural climate of the area in which they are found. The soil order found in Georgia is Ultisol also known as red clay. The other eleven orders are as follows: Alfisols, this is usually found in forests and is high in aluminum and iron; Andisols, found in the northwest and includes weathered soil and volcanic glass; Aridisols, found in the deserts of the southwest and consists of dry sand; Entisols, found all over the U.S.A. and is very shallow and sandy; Gelisols, found in the north and consists of permafrost; Histosols, found in swamps and marshes and made of bog muck and mud; Inceptisols, found in humid and sub humid areas; Mollisols, a dark colored soil that is great for farming, Oxisols, tropical soil that is made up of quartz, kaolin, free oxides, and organic matter; Spodosols, a silty and sandy soil made up of aluminum and organic matter; Vertisols, a dry clayey soil that develops deep wide cracks across its surface as it expands.