Like a weevil in a flour jar, a mole in a hole, an earthworm in a pile of loam. This is how I felt during the inaugural Soil Care Network workshop. As someone who has moved between researching soil as an ecologist and as a human geographer, between the academy and practice I was very excited to learn of this new interdisciplinary initiative. Soil is an ideal medium, concept and set of practices to bring a diversity of people together. This was well illustrated in Sheffield th