native soil
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We were there the moment pioneering horticulturist Robbie Blackhall-Miles returned it to its native soil.
From BBC ● May 24, 2024
Our newest study suggests that your microbes are not only living in the soil but also cooperating with native soil microbes to help decompose your body.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2023
It’s an American saga, wrought of the native soil, of tougher times but maybe better times, or seeming so because you were young in them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
A staple of West African cooking when the Atlantic slave trade began in the 16th century, okra was forcibly uprooted from its native soil, just like the people who loved it.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 8, 2019
His majesty's brothers, after having solemnly sworn that they would not leave their native soil, were gone; and the stream of emigration increased in volume daily.
From The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield
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