in this case, i think i remember, it is state sandy loem. farther up the river is fantastic, and it is the state soil now. this is what the indian women found. we know where they were doing their farming, thanks to dear old schmidt. and if you take river valleys, and then correlate them with kinds of soil, that's the rappahannock river, bingo. look how many of the towns are by the yellow soils. it's about an 80% correlation on the rappahannock river. it correlates. i waited ten years to find that out. ha-ha-ha. and it was worth it. yep. good stuff. and the indian women knew it first. of course, they had 600 years of trial and error. and 600 years is probably enough for experimenting. but it worked. it worked. now, at our latitude, on our coastal plain, and certainly in the piedmont and the ridge and valley province, we tend to have mix mixed dissiddous hardwood forest. i understand the extent of pine barrens in historic virginia is under dispute. there are academic cat fights about it. and i haven't looked into those. but the vast majority o