Landscape, soil, cheese and me: Difference between revisions

[[File:LandscapeSoilCheeseMe_soil-biota-scales.jpg|thumb|3 different scales of observation were used to see as much of the soils’ biota as possible: macro, meso and microscopic.]]

During the last week of April, I extracted a small piece of soil from the pastures of Hoeve de Koeberg, René and Claudia’s organic farm — the farmers I got along with the most. Along the purchased milk, this soil sample was brought back home and “visited” with a microscope to look for living beings in it, reflecting on the decomposers’ primal activity to decay and recycle organic matter, the environmental changes threatening their mutualism<ref>I explored this question through an interview of Gerlinde de </ref>, and its analogy with the way microbe societies make cheeses.

#Trowel sampling: 16 small 10cm deep samples mixed together. 10 and 20g extracted and mixed with 100g demineralised water.

#Pitfall trap: one 365mL jar in the center of the pasture Baermann funnel.