Can you make anything out of Soil? Anything we can use now-a-days?

Question: Can you make anything out of Soil? Anything we can use now-a-days?
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Asked by lovelalic to Eoin on 14 Mar 2011.
- Eoin Lettice answered on 14 Mar 2011:
  
  Hey,
  Well clay is a kind of soil – and we use clay for making pottery.
  The biological components of soil also produce products that might be useful. For example, soil bacteria produce antibiotics which might be useful for human medicine!
  
  Eoin

Question: Can you make anything out of Soil? Anything we can use now-a-days?