To the untutored eye a green field is “grass”. To a less naïve beholder the field will contain a vast array of small plants and insects or may even be something quite different from grass, for example young corn. Other skills make visible traces of former land use or interesting geological data beneath the surface. If fostering is a green field, most of us see it as “grass”.
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