people increasingly divorced from the land.

[NorthernRaider]

Recently I went to meet a former colleague for a cuppa at a WF sub station (the lectronics gubbins bit at each wf). Whilst we was there the farmer ploughed the land just outside the sub station turning over the stubble left from the wheat crop. We went to look at the soil after he went by, we saw NO worms or bug and almost no composted or rotted greenery in the soil, as someone mentioned above the soil was nigh on sterile and is nothing more than a medium to hold the chemicals and plants in place. I suggest we are in serious shit and only one step away from an ecological disaster.. WHY because I remember seeing on shows like Blue Peter and How and OUT OF TOWN that each square meter of soil SHOULD contain up to 1000 mini beasties or bugs as part n parcel of the natural cycle.