What do tighty whities say about soil health?

Grain Place Farm uses underwear to help teach lessons about soil health

  • Jay Goertzen holds up what is barely left of one of the pairs of underwear, three months after it buried at the Grain Place Farm.
    Jay Goertzen holds up what is barely left of one of the pairs of underwear, three months after it buried at the Grain Place Farm.
  • Jay Goertzen is shown with one of the three pairs of “tighty whities” that were buried in March as part of an experiment on soil health.
    Jay Goertzen is shown with one of the three pairs of “tighty whities” that were buried in March as part of an experiment on soil health.

    A group of area youngsters recently got the opportunity to dig up something they probably never expected to find during an educational visit to the Grain Place Farm.Underwear.More specifically, three pairs of cotton “tighty whities” that had been buried months earlier as part of a simple, and memorable, experiment designed to demonstrate the importance of healthy soil.“It was kind of a fun little …