Learn · the open knowledge zone
Understand the ground beneath the decision.
Soil is the most data-rich, least-understood layer under every project. Here's how we read it, in stories, field notes, training, and an API you can build on.
Four ways in.
Scrollytelling
Data Stories
The world beneath your feet, told in chapters, how soil shapes risk, value, and what gets built. The most-shared front door to the database.
Read the stories ↗Field notesInsights
Short, technical write-ups from the lab: method notes, what the data says, and the decisions it changed.
Browse insights →Live · hands-onTraining & Workshops
Build the soil-SQL capability your team is missing, on the real national database, taught by the people who built it.
See training →Beta · developersLab10YR API
The national soil database as clean JSON in your own stack: point lookup, county summary, batch, with the schema documented.
See the API →