If you want to understand how soil is coping with our changing climate, sometimes you don’t need to go far. A roadside, a small patch of land, can be enough to reveal a bigger story.
This past summer we followed a simple experiment on a roadside slope. At first glance, it was just another strip of green along the road. But over the months, it became clear how differently soil can behave — and how much potential there is to help it.
The first images from July showed a stressed, drying surface. By late summer, the difference was striking: areas treated with regenerative material held on to their vitality. The colors tell the story best: where untreated soil kept fading, other patches stayed greener, stronger, alive for longer.
1. Drone imagery between July and September shows how vegetation vitality developed.
And when you step closer, the contrast is even easier to see. In the same row, side by side, one patch struggles, another thrives.
2. Field plots in late summer: side-by-side comparison of different treatments and the control area.
This is what Soilence is about. It’s not just theory or lab tests — it’s soil that breathes, ground that holds water a little longer, roots that don’t give up in the heat.
These trials are still early steps, but they show us something important: when we give soil the chance to recover, it responds. It holds on. It grows.
The earth may be drying, but it’s not beyond hope. Even a roadside slope can remind us of that.
