Title: Purchasing Topsoil
Summary: Topsoil. It's arguably the most precious stuff on earth, sustaining all land-dwelling animals, including
humans. It takes nature 500 years to make an inch of it.
Until recently, most folks interested in topsoil were farmers and their advisors concerned with how to
work it, increase its fertility, maximize its productivity and protect it.
But gradually, over the past 20 years, "topsoil" has been transformed into a hot commodity, a multimillion
dollar industry responding to demand from homeowners and businesses seeking to establish or
improve their landscapes, lawns and gardens. Homes are also going up on steep, barren or rocky sites
once considered unbuildable, where the only option for a lawn or garden is to import topsoil.
Resource type: Text
Format: PDF
Size: 46.5 KB
Language: English
Date created / revised: 08-September-2000
Creator: Richard Uncles, Tom Buob
Publisher: UNH Cooperative Extension
Permalink: http://extension.unh.edu/resources/files/Resource000492_Rep514.pdf