Scatter-Spore cultivates bacteria-rich soil through a combination of recycling dead animal and plant matter including ALL dead bodies; importing soil from the Silt Sea and other regions to maintain salination and pH balance (they don't have the scientific understanding of WHY these things matter but can detect them and know they do); and they breed plants and fungi to do more with less! There's a lot of leveraging the ways some plants and fungi and bacteria live in symbiosis - if one corner of the tripod is failing, prop up the other two!