Quote Originally Posted by Grog View Post
I don't know if you've ever heard of "stony fields" (I don't know how people call them in English). They're pieces of land that just turn up stones to the surface every year. I was lucky not to be born on one but a girlfriend of mine was, and every spring she and her siblings had to pick up the stones that surfaced. They put the stones away, but the next year new stones reappeared. Papaver said it well. Soil is a living thing...
Yep - I grew up on a farm. Every year we spent time with the rock picker (that is, picking up rocks and throwing them in the rock picker). I assumed it was like anywhere there were rocks.