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Toohey and David B. Hogan / 39 From the Editor KATIE RASO What’s below the surface HAVE SOIL on my mind. fungi (AMF), and they are known is wrapped up in the ethos of “one It’s partially the time of the to support 85% of plant families, great man” —the single visionary year—I just nestled 144 seeds into including major agricultural crops, who leads the way, corrects the their starter pods today. Seedling trees and grasses. course and guides us forward. But day is one of quiet awe for me. I I think a lot about about unseen organizing is inherently a collective Ilove to set up at the kitchen table, fungus networks, how an ectomy- action, recognizing that everyone has carefully dropping each seed into corrhizal mushroom that pops up a role to play in shaping an equitable its new home, covering it over, then in my yard seems to have arrived and just future. So much of the work sitting back to marvel at the idea that out of nowhere overnight but is, in is unseen: the sharing of knowledge, the future contents of my winter fact, part of a large, intricate system resources and food across our pantry, hours of fall canning, and that extends beyond the property largely invisible channels.