“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

Genesis 1:1. 

Historical evidence tells us there was a time when the earth brought forth life much more abundantly than today.  It is common knowledge that our coal beds are constructed from rich flora and fauna of a previous generation.  Evidence of dinosaurs speaks of a time when plant life grew much more abundantly.  Dinosaurs couldn’t survive today because even the richest jungles would fail to support their voracious appetites. 

What is the reason soil has degenerated with the age of the earth?  One theory is that original rich, deep topsoil may have been disrupted by a cataclysmic flood of water.  Though many do not believe this concept, one individual who does, theorized that during Noah’s Flood the agitation of rocks and debris in the massive disturbance mixed a great deal of sand into the soil.  He noted that in the process of erosion, eventually the rich topsoil is washed out of the soil into the waterways and ends up in the sea.  He wondered if he could replicate that process in a simple way in order to remove the sand, thus concentrating the rich elements of the clay and humic acids to create rich soil that would be closer to the original at Creation. 

As he experimented with the soil, he discovered a method of “washing” the soil that accomplished his purpose.  As he tested the impact of the “restored soil” on plants, he discovered that plants revealed marked growth increase.  He believes that above ground foliage growth reflects root health.  Flourishing roots equal good top growth.   

Some of the richest farmlands in America are drained beaver ponds.  Some of these extensive old beaver dams may extend for as much as five miles.  When the ponds have drained, they left behind some of the most productive farmland soil in America. 

A National Geographic article cited soils rich and deep enough to swallow conventional tractor!  Here they use vehicles with track extensions two or three feet wide to prevent sinking.   The unofficial record for the largest pear grown in this type of soil was three pounds.  The official record of the largest pear grown was 2.3 pounds.      

Alaskan soil is quite close to being ideal.  Containing lesser amounts of large particled sand, it is probably created as glacial till which is soil that is ground under glaciers.  As you may have heard, Alaskan vegetables have been known to grow to immense size due not only to twenty-hours of sunlight per day but also to near ideal fine particled soils.     

Any gardener will tell you that clay by itself is not good soil!  Neither is humus (compost) good soil by itself; the one being too dense, the other being too dry.

The previously mentioned soils have the two different components incorporated with one another.  In dense soil, water does not move through easily and neither do roots.  In mulch-like soil, water is not wicked up through and roots do not grow up into it either.  With these thoughts, methods of incorporating both ingredients were investigated.