Adventures in Soil

12/05/2022

Check out some of the pages from our entry for the Children’s Soil Booklet on the theme “Soils: Where Food Begins”. Happy Thanks to the amazing team of Teresa Porter and Franco Campomanes for their dedication year after year!

12/03/2022

Who else is using this incredible technology to write sad poems about soil erosion and fertility loss for World Soil Day?

11/30/2022

11/29/2022

Found the perfect spot for my new tardigrade sticker!

11/23/2022

Swipe to see some of the soil bugs we found in class. We’ve got lots of collembola, mites, and millipedes!

11/18/2022

Swipe right to check out the fungal associations these plants have. Hemlock, Douglas fir, alder, and clover can get help from fungi to fix atmospheric nitrogen into a usable form for plants!

11/08/2022

Berlese funnel traps collecting soil fauna! These traps require a funnel with a mesh lining along the bottom, then you place the soil on top and a flask with ethanol below. The light dries off the soil and forces soil fauna to the bottom into the flask.

09/10/2022

A typical gleysolic soil in Delta, British Columbia! We are having lots of fun showing people the dominant soil forming process (gleying) at the Day at the Farm

08/31/2022

Sprucing up the old MacBook with some new sticker 🐝🐛🐞🪱

08/21/2022

More stickers! It’s so great to connect soil concepts from the classroom and reading to in the field - which is the concept behind this sticker.

08/17/2022

That’s a cool sticker bro! Now available in my Etsy shop (link in bio)

08/14/2022

A teaching kit showing some of the rocks and minerals used in industry! Cool to see all the different colours of these common minerals. Also, do they still sell these? Seems weird to have mercury and arsenic in there 😵