Busybody Alchemy Cannot Go As Planned

By Chris Rossini

​Plant an acorn into the soil and you will end up with a mighty oak tree. You plant, and the soil responds.

Plant an apple seed, and the soil will produce an apple tree. A lilac seed will produce a lilac bush.

The soil will not produce until you plant the seed. You initiate the process. There is no such thing as 'something for nothing' when it comes to the soil. 

The soil doesn't care which seed is planted, or who does the planting. It can be an Iowan planting corn, or a Floridian p...