![]() ![]() ![]() Designer garden tools and thick, plush gloves just about guarantee that you won’t soil your hands.Īnd it’s not only adults… These days, children spend far more time in front of computers than they do digging in the ground. Today, it’s no longer “normal” to get your hands dirty. We stopped touching dirt – and we made sure we didn’t eat it. ![]() It wasn’t until years later that Americans became obsessed with cleanliness. In fact, you probably helped out by pulling weeds and planting seeds with your bare hands.Įven if you didn’t have a family garden, as a kid, you probably played outdoors for hours each day and got more than a little dirty.īack then, people didn’t worry so much about dirt – it was part of life. ![]() It is likely many of you, much like myself, grew up in homes where having a vegetable or flower garden was commonplace. Hunters and gatherers couldn’t avoid it, and regardless of culture, there’s evidence people have included traces of dirt in their diets throughout the ages. It’s been around a long time, dating back more than 2,500 years. ![]()
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