The Healthiest Thing You Can Do Today? Get Dirty!

Our very Gary Nabhan published this interesting piece in Earth Island Journal about the unsuspected benefits of being in contact with nature at its most basic level: dirt. Or, the Wisdom of the Toddler, as some might call it.

“And when a court determines that some “truant” youth needs to do community services to atone for his or her sins, we need to let them join a work crew of restoration ecologists who are sowing pollinator meadows, spreading compost on damaged lands, or transplanting trees for a fencerow to hold a riverbank in place.”