Dirty Business
Ang commented about the dirt that the fire ant bed was made of, saying:
I forget how light your soil is down there! I grew up with BLACK soil. I always thought the soil where I live now is light, but it looks black in comparison to yours.
I live in a coastal plain, and so I do have have a lot of sand, but what that mound is made of is actually clay. We do indeed have black dirt under the sandy top. For many, many years (like centuries) the economy of North Carolina was agriculturally based, and in some rural areas, it still is. Farming is not a major business in my immediate area, but just an hour or so down the highway, there are large farms. In some ares, you can find ribbons of clay mixed into the black dirt. What you can do with your land is based on that soil composition, and soil composition is closely related to proximity to the sea.
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