They do not understand our talk about good and bad soils, because they make the soil themselves, and make it in such quantities as to be compelled yearly to sell some of it: otherwise it would raise up the level of their gardens by half an inch every year.
Kropotkin points out that some farmers actively create and enrich their soil, challenging conventional notions of soil quality.
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