soil

Across the country, there are still farms operating under 1960s standards – tin shacks, walls made of baked soil or cement bricks, and no fencing.

Months earlier, in March, farmworkers had used a machine to drop each little plant, grown in a greenhouse, into the moistened soil.

“Say these names to praise the soil,” he writes.

Recent rains have left soil and new vegetation wet, diminishing the threat of wildfire stoked by wind.

It’s also a reasonable assumption—and a reassurance—that uniformed U.S. military personnel would be maintaining those jets on Saudi soil.