Wednesday, October 5, 2011

ALL THAT SOIL!

So last Wednesday we had a lab that took us to a community garden in Macon, GA that is maintained through MaconRoots.org. It's a pretty cool thing, though I'm not sure if organic gardening means letting ants destroy a large portion of your crop. There has to be some kind of natural treatment for ants.

In any case, we did a lot of different things. We took soil samples and looked that different layers of dirt in the area, though we really only barely got down into the clay layer. We also dug up some dirt and felt it with our hands. Sometime around then, we sifted some dirt, though that was not super successful since it was pretty wet and rainy and whatnot that day.

I remember being cold.

Then we ate some different things from the garden and threw dirt at Dr. Rood and Alvin Huff couldn't figure out how a faucet works so I had to help him out with that.

Also, I found out about inceptisols, which are soils that are not very developed. It's like going back in time--soil time, if you will. This is a helpful link for learning about them.

And that was my lab experience.