blog post 7

Betsey Walsh

Professor Santos

ENGL 102_037

23 March 2018

Blog Post #7

            In class on Friday, we watched a video about the soil and how it is not the same as it was decades ago. It is losing the carbon that is helpful for the nutrients that the crops take in and then once they are harvest, we eat. There was a statistic mentioned that today, we would need to eat 8 oranges, in order to get the same amount of vitamins in 1 orange when our grandparents were growing up. It is crazy that this has happened over the past few decades.

            Before watching the video, I really wasn’t aware of the problems we have created when it comes to soil and the levels of carbon the soil contains decreasing. I found it interesting about the different methods that some farmers mentioned in the video were coming up with. They were talking about adding human waste and animal waste to the soil to help make a rich soil and to add more nutrients to it. This video has opened my eyes on the problems in the soil and the levels of carbon in the soil. I believe that if we work together, we could be able to help the levels increase in the soil. Maybe not to the levels they used to be at when our grandparents were growing up, but it’s a start.