Rebuilding from the roots: How healthy soil and native plants help fire-ravaged landscapes heal

Rebuilding from the roots: How healthy soil and native plants help fire-ravaged landscapes heal

This writer clearly remembers standing in the corn fields of central Minnesota when I was a child, marveling at all the worms wriggling and writhing within a fistful of brown, moist soil I had scooped into my hands.  Farm life teaches one that such healthy soil full of abundant organisms is the most productive and, importantly, that it must be tended to tenderly. As a local journalist, after the Broad, Franklin and Palisades fires, this writer w…