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Book 29, Question 125

How does a garden close the circle of nutrients?

In a garden, plants grow, and we eat them or they die.

The leftovers go into compost, where microbes and worms turn them into rich soil. That soil feeds the next plants. Nutrients move round and round, like a circle that keeps going. A garden that returns its leftovers to the soil needs fewer outside supplies.

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