Healthy soil is full of tiny lifeforms – bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes, arthropods and earthworms. A fun way to determine the biology in your soil is by performing the Soil Your Undies Challenge. This challenge consists of burying a pair of 100% cotton undies beneath your soil and digging them up

Dr. Judith Fitzpatrick, microbiologist and developer of microBIOMETER®, had the pleasure of being interviewed on the Galil Garden Podcast. Some of the important topics discussed include: Microbes and pesticide use Microbes affect on erosion The microbial food chain

Microbial biomass (MB) can be used to determine if you are sequestering carbon, which improves soil and helps combat global warming. In 1989 Anderson and Domsch showed that increasing microbial biomass predicted an increase in soil organic carbon (OC).