What’s in your soil? In the comments, snap a photo of a handful of the closest organic growing matter you have access to and tell us why it’s alive. It doesn’t matter if it’s a soil mix, native dirt, compost, mulch, etc. Whatcha got groovin’ and growin’ on in there?

I'm already getting a good bit of stuff from my garden! From the left I have peppermint, lemon balm, and parsley. I'm in zone 8A and my parsley, chives, lemon balm, and peppermint are coming back nicely. Since parsley is a biennial, it's already starting to bolt (form flowers), so I scattered some fresh parsley seed in the soil where my current plant is sitting. When it gets really determined to make flowers, I'll let one fully develop and drop those flowers in the soil too and see what happens next year! I trimmed the bottom of the parsley stems and rinsed everything and put it in my drying rack to let them get nice and dry for storage!

Here is my raspberry patch. Way overgrown. The front is now weed free. It looked the same as the back which I just started on. 3 days of pulling weeds. It's scary on the back side being so close to the hay bales. Im so terrified a snake or ginormous rat will dart out at me. I've accidentally pulled up a good bit of the raspberries too but there's still so many left. The burdock and trees growing are the hardest to get out. The video is my yard with just as much weeds as grass if not more. Clay ground is difficult to grow much.