Weeds exist because they’re healing soil. They’re colonising your garden, cropland or paddock because there’s a vacancy in the ecosystem for them. They’re there, persistent and resilient, because the conditions in the soil – both its life and its structure – are ideal for the weeds, and not necessarily ideal for what we want to grow. Importantly, in the process, the weeds are feeding subterranean communities, and often fixing the very problems in soil that have allowed them to thrive in the first place.
