The Green Team and Bringing Nature Home sponsored the “Soil Your Undies” challenge to help celebrate Earth Day, 2021. On or about April 22, residents buried pristine, white cotton undies in their home gardens or in their plot in the Community Garden. On June 26, participants dug up the undies to see what soil microbes had done to them in just two months. You can see in the pictures that the microbial life in our garden soils is abundant and active — no need to add fertilizers and commercial soil amendments.
Thanks to everyone who participated in this event. Rick Simpson took before and after photos… click this link: https://ricksimpson.smugmug.com/Rose-Villa/2021/06-26-Earth-Day-soiled-undies-experiment
Alice Lane gets ready to plant their undies on April 22
Pictured left to right are Marilyn Gottschall, Miranda Manners, Wes Brown, Karen Hudson-Brown, Pat McAleer.
Two months later on Alice Lane — Pat, Miranda, Marilyn, Karen, Frank Ramos, Wes, Penny Ramos
Louise Williams before and after
James Carthel before and after
Click this link to see all of Rick Simpson’s photos: https://ricksimpson.smugmug.com/Rose-Villa/2021/06-26-Earth-Day-soiled-undies-experiment