Few things are as magical as standing in a potato field when the first rays of the sun clear the trees. How do these plants take sunlight, mix it with nutrients in the ground, and make potatoes? It’s like magic. And they do it while looking beautiful to boot. It’s surprising that city parks don’t have huge beds of potatoes. Lining paths and walkways with potatoes would go a long way to relieving the stresses of living in the city. Imagine walking to work and being able to stroll through rows of waist high potatoes the whole way. You’d arrive at work refreshed and with a good attitude. You can’t walk through a potato field and stay sad. It’s just not possible.

Do pumpkins fly? They sure look like they do when they spread their first leaves. They look like they’re spreading wings as they pop out of the ground. A few flaps and off they go.

The bees are everywhere these days. Just one of the many little helpers that make our lives possible. If it weren’t for bees, we couldn’t exist. Without ants, we wouldn’t be. Without plankton and plants, we wouldn’t have oxygen to breathe. When you step outdoors and touch the soil with your toes, right beneath your toes are thousands of microscopic nematodes, little wriggling worms, which eat bacteria and fungi and leave behind nutrients at the roots of plants so the plants can grow. Without these bacteria and fungi eating microscopic worms, we wouldn’t have grasslands, brush, woodland, or forests. We owe everything to a whole lot of little helpers.