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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; thus reflecting on the decomposers’ primal activity to decay and recycle organic matter, the environmental changes threatening this mutualism<ref>I explored this question thanks to an interview of [https://www.wur.nl/fr/Persons/Gerlinde-prof.dr.ir.-GB-Gerlinde-de-Deyn.htm Gerlinde de Deyn], from Wageningen University & Research.</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; thus reflecting on the decomposers’ primal activity to decay and recycle organic matter, the environmental changes threatening this mutualism<ref>I explored this question thanks to an interview of [https://www.wur.nl/fr/Persons/Gerlinde-prof.dr.ir.-GB-Gerlinde-de-Deyn.htm Gerlinde de Deyn], from Wageningen University & Research.</ref>, and its analogy with the way microbe societies make cheeses. | ||