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Dirt with a job, where civilization plants its dinner and bets the weather behaves.
means Land cultivated or grazed to grow crops and raise livestock, the soil humanity actually eats from.
from From Old English feorm, meaning a fixed rent or provision of food, plus land — literally ground that pays you in supper.
Earth's shareRoughly half of habitable land grows our food.
Topsoil clockInches take centuries to form, seasons to erode.
Vanishing acresCities pave the flattest, richest soil first.