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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. | 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. | ||
*Soil analysis of milk providers: 1 hectare grassland next to the farm's main barn. | *Soil analysis of milk providers: 1 hectare grassland next to the farm's main barn. | ||
#Trowel sampling: 16 small 10cm deep samples mixed together. 10 and 20g extracted and mixed with 100g demineralised water. | #Trowel sampling: 16 small 10cm deep samples of soil were mixed together. 10 and 20g were extracted and mixed with 100g demineralised water before observation. | ||
#Pitfall trap: one 365mL jar in the center of the pasture Baermann funnel. | #Pitfall trap: one 365mL jar filled with a bit of water was put in the center of the pasture as a trap for small crawling animals to fall in it. | ||
#Baermann funnel: 50g of soil in gauze was attached to the border of a funnel. Demineralised water was poured in to extract microscopic animals from the soil. | |||
<u>Observations</u>: Microscopic fungi and animals, macroscopic insects and worms crawling in samples. | <u>Observations</u>: Microscopic fungi and animals, macroscopic insects and worms crawling in samples. | ||
====Microscopic observations archives==== | ====Microscopic observations archives==== | ||