Observation No. 13 - The World Beneath Our Feet

In a grassland in Alberta, Canada, someone showed me several circles in the grass.

Everyone knew what they were called.

But when I asked why they were there, the answers became less certain.

So I borrowed a screwdriver.

I pushed it into the soil inside one of the circles.

It went in easily.

Then I tried again outside.

The soil responded completely differently.

Why?

At the time, I didn't have an answer.

Years later, green patches in a pasture in New Zealand caught my attention.

And much later, in Texas, another piece of the same mystery appeared.

Could three observations, separated by thousands of miles and several years, be showing different pieces of the same process?

In this Observation, we follow those clues.

Not to rush toward an explanation, but to explore a much more important question:

How can we learn to recognize processes we cannot see directly, but that leave evidence right in front of our eyes?

Observation No. 13 — The World Beneath Our Feet

Real Wealth Ranching
Jaime Elizondo