● There are more living organisms in 1 Tbsp of Soil than there are people on earth.
● 1,400,000 earthworms can be found in just one acre of farmland.
● The top 6 inches of one acre of soil contains as much as 20,000 lbs of total living matter.
● Earthworms “Eat” 15 Tonnes of Soil Per Acre Per Year.
● We Need Soil for Clean Drinking Water. Soil is Earth’s natural water filtration system.
● 0.01% of the Earth’s Total Water is Stored in Soil.
● One of modern medicine’s most important life-saving advances was the discovery of antibiotics used to treat bacterial infections. And – amazing soil fact – almost all of these antibiotics come from soil microorganisms!
● The World’s Soils Contain 2500 Gigatons of Carbon
