Soil Your Undies to Test Health of Your Yard ecori.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ecori.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Farmers, ranchers, and backyard gardeners all may have questions on their soil health and if it is up to par. The Western Sustainable Exchange, Winnett ACES and United States Department
Farmers, ranchers, and backyard gardeners all may have questions on their soil health and if it is up to par. The Western Sustainable Exchange, Winnett ACES and United States Department
How Healthy Is The Soil On Your Farm? Soil Your Undies To Find Out nhpr.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nhpr.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Armidale, Australia – What can white cotton underwear tell you about the health of the soil in your farm or garden? Quite a lot, it turns out.
Hundreds of people – from farmers to schoolchildren – are burying their cotton underwear in their back gardens to dig up eight weeks later as part of a citizen science project called the Soil Your Undies Challenge that began in the United States before spreading overseas and is now gathering momentum in Australia.
Cotton is made of a sugar called cellulose, making it a tasty snack for microbes and the army of other tiny decomposers that live in the soil. The state of the garments when they are retrieved will indicate the health of the microbiome. If there is not much left of the cloth, then the soil is healthy and teeming with activity. If it is mostly intact, then work is necessary to improve the situation.