by Content | Dec 27, 2016 | Previous Animal in the Cycle
Caption: Male downy woodpecker on Governors Island, New York City, December 16, 2016 The Downy Woodpecker By Matt Civello Tap, tap, tap. Methodical, deliberate and thorough, with distinct pauses between each tap. Tap, tap, tap, tap. The sound of a small sharp beak...
by Content | May 6, 2016 | Previous Animal in the Cycle
View Image Source By Kam Yau Riddle: Question: What has seven legs, two antennas, and rolls up into a ball? Answer: A rollie pollie! A rollie pollie (also spelled roly poly) is one of the many macro-organisms that can exist in a healthy soil or compost medium. Along...
by Content | Mar 8, 2016 | Previous Animal in the Cycle
Image Sources – Left: WikiWel |Right: Wikimedia Commons By Infinitae Stockton Holy Basil, (Ocimum Sanctum) is not the same as Basil (Ocimum Basilicum) typically found in your everyday culinary herb collection. Holy Basil goes by many names. It is known as...
by Content | Dec 14, 2015 | Previous Animal in the Cycle
Slugs lay average of 30 eggs (see white eggs in center of the photo). They use their top 2 antennae for finding their way and their bottom antenna for smell and taste. Marisa DeDominicis and Infinitae Stockton This month’s “Nature Celebrity” is the...
by Content | Dec 8, 2015 | Previous Animal in the Cycle
“Formica polyctena”. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 de via Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Formica_polyctena.jpg#/media/File:Formica_polyctena.jpg by Marisa DeDominicis + Charlie Bayrer Our beloved decomposer friends, the ants, make up...
by Content | Jul 23, 2015 | Previous Animal in the Cycle
David Granik (left), seasonal apprentice, creating a batch of Bokashi. Marie Farrell (right), seasonal apprentice, trenches this two-week old batch of fermented food scrap in our Soil Start Farm’s lasagna compost bed. by David Granik and friends ...
