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Here in SW Ohio I’m not sure there ever was an abundance of rich topsoil. I have 5 acres which has never been farmed and the native soil is dense, sticky clay.

Here in SW Ohio I’m not sure there ever was an abundance of rich topsoil. I have 5 acres which has never been farmed and the native soil is dense, sticky clay. It is hard to get anything other than weeds to grow in it. Yet the corn farms around here always seem to produce.

hinkley 6y ago
> I have 5 acres which has never been farmed If your records don't go back to the 1700's then you don't know that for sure. SW Ohio was the eastern tip of the savannas, so even if it wasn't farmed, someone busted the sod for your forebears to stake a claim.