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There is proof that soil health can start from absolutely zero. Meet farmer Ryan Urban. He was tasked with the impossible. Converting a gravel pile from interstate construction into workable farmland. Ryan decided to follow the soil health roadmap and begin with what the land needed most. Living biology. Ryan worked to slowly rebuild organic matter and let life do what it does best. Today that same flat is growing something again. Not perfect, not finished, but moving in the right direction. Now here's Ryan Urban with a message from growing resilience, South Dakota. 

At one point that was a hot mix plant and a gravel pile for when they built the interstate and it used to look like a gravel parking lot. So we've been feeding on it. We're slowly getting organic matter back and now this whole flat here starting to grow something. It might not be exactly what we want yet but we're making strides. 

That's the real lesson here. Soil health isn't about instant results. It's about steady progress, long-term thinking and giving the land a chance to respond. Visit our Harvest USA Facebook page and look for that link from Everything Cover Crops and you'll see how Ryan rebuilt soil from the ground up.