loam

It’s a sandy loam mixed with lightweight volcanic aggregate to provide the volume and moisture needed to support plant life while reducing the weight on the structure and allowing for easy drainage.

Juke joints, once commonplace across the Deep South, were the loam out of which blues music grew, a vast network of shacks, old shops and converted homes where traveling musicians would play a night for a share of the cover charge, then move on to the next gig.

That’s because, contrary to the shibboleth, the good isn’t the enemy of the great—it’s the loam of the great.

Dalya, who lives two doors down, wanders by to share insights about cultivating shitakes on loam in a shady side yard.

Dobrynya dashed to where his sword lay in the loam beneath the tree.