Christina Ek

I have a new culture of Chlorella growing, and plan to start pea and radish crops next week.

Netflix has released a documentary called Kiss the Ground which has a wealth of information about soil restoration and climate change. Woody Harrelson narrates. It is very timely in its content and...

The PLFA results are back from the company. I need to formally analyze them, but it appears as if results are expected. For example, the soil sample that was most diverse was of the beets in the 5 ...

I am reading a very interesting book called Gendered Fields by Carolyn Sachs. She analyzes quite well the connection between patriarchal agricultural systems and the negative impacts of them on com...

The soil samples for the PLFA test are at the lab and in queue for processing. It will take the company a couple of weeks to complete and send me the results. I will let everyone know any updates.

After a temporary setback, I plan to send my samples for PLFA out Monday. I also plan to conduct a second set of experiments in March/April on peas and radishes. I am reading some wonderful books o...

Hopefully next week I will be able to send in soil samples for the PLFA tests (which are expensive). I will make sure to have an equal number of samples from both healthy and subpar soil. There wil...

Both the beets and turnips grew roots, although the beets grew more of them and they were larger than the turnips. The turnips grew the least successfully of all of the crops, and the beets perform...

The crops are still developing; hopefully within the next two weeks I can take height and weight measurements.