Kevin Espiritu

I did not know that.

We grow such an incredible amount here, you know?

Yeah, I mean, we should all care about the top three or four inches.

The top three or four inches is basically where everything actually happens for the plant.

So you're right, like the roots are down in the soil, right?

And yes, sometimes those roots go pretty deep and they can mine for specific minerals or nutrients that they might need.

But...

In contrast to like hydroponics, like we've been talking about, in the soil, there's basically what's called a soil food web.

There's bacteria, there's fungi, there's insects.

There's all sorts of creatures that are mobilizing the organic matter.

Because think about like a forest floor.

Things are going to fall from the forest.

Animals are going to die.

Insects are going to die or be consumed and defecate and all that kind of stuff.

All of that material needs to be broken down to smaller and smaller particles to the point where it's effectively at the elemental level to be used by the plant roots.

that's happening in a natural ecosystem by the environment in the topsoil.

All of that is in that first three, four, six inches or something like that.

I wouldn't know the exact maybe evolutionary ecosystem reason for this, but my hypothesis, I guess, would be that it's because it's efficient for the plant roots to not have to go that far to get the nutrients.

Okay, that kind of feels right.

That makes sense.