fertile soil

noun

: a place where something begins or develops in large amounts

Poor neighborhoods can be fertile soil for crime.

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It's grown in fertile soil that drains well with consistent watering. —

Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2024 An unusually versatile vegetable that can be enjoyed raw, braised, or even baked into a lasagna, radicchio thrives in the region’s fertile soil, yielding two to three harvests where many vegetables make only an annual appearance. —

Ursula Ferrigno, Saveur, 3 Oct. 2024 Local communities are fertile soil for original stories. —

Diego Ávalos, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2024 Well before humans began putting billions of tons of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, entire populations would migrate toward better conditions in search of a place with milder weather or more fertile soil or the absence of drought. —

Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018 See all Example Sentences for fertile soil