Blog Post #7

Kaylen Kozlowski

Professor Melissa Santos

23 March 2018

Blog Post

Blog Post #7

            The video we had watched in class today opened my eyes to the ways farmers preserve the soil. In our everyday lives, we barely think about soil and how global warming has an effect on it. Before watching the video, I was not aware of the change in soil and the how levels of carbon have decreased in the soil as well. I found it interesting when one of the women in the video had tools to figure out the amount of carbon that was in the soil in different parks around the area. She had shown how she had discovered that the carbon levels in the field she researched had decreased from when she was last at them. There are many steps that farmers take to make the soil healthier and nutritious.

            The farmers used cow and human waste to create a more nutrient filled soil to assist their crops to grow. In the video, they showed how many different farmers used this process of using human and animal waste in their soil to create a rich soil. This video informed me on the problem of the decrease of nutrients in our soil. During the class discussion, I found it interesting when we were talking about the different statistics involving soil and the growth of plants. One fact that stood out to me the most was about oranges. When our grandparents were growing up, an orange then has the same number of vitamins in about 7-8 oranges today. This stood out to me the most because the number of vitamins in the fruit is due to the soil it was grown in. The levels of vitamins and nutrients in the soil is a problem that needs to be more publicized in order for the problem to be resolved all around the country.