The build-up-your-soil first analogy with Bitcoin acquisition is interesting. I find it particularly relevant for my orange-pilling efforts: a number of times, I have tried to hard sell people in a single conversation (quite honestly, without really thinking what the long term strategy is for them) and the end result of that conversation is: okay, I'll buy some bitcoin. But that's it. I think I should be taking the prepare the soil method: a longer game of education that results in someone who actually has spent some time trying to understand bitcoin.

As to the actual soil: everywhere I've had a piece of property, I am on high-alert listening for wood-chippers (this only works in a relatively dense suburban or urban area) -- and whenever I hear someone chipping, I race around trying to find them so that I can convince them to give me their wood chips. Then, I cover my ground with them. After a few years of this, the soil underneath is excellent (at least to my amateur knowledge).