Sunday, June 22, 2008

Things They Should Invent: topsoil transplant

One thing we were told repeatedly in school was that Southern Ontario has some of the best farmland in the country, but it keeps getting used up for development and urbanization instead of farming.

So what if, as they develop things down here, they took all the topsoil and carted it away and took it somewhere further north that isn't going to be developed any time soon, and let people farm up there? Would that work?

1 comment:

laura k said...

Would the climate be significantly different?

And is it part of the Canadian Shield up there? Cause if it is, topsoil won't work, as I understand it. (Which I may not.)