Apparently, this is World Earthworm Day!
The Trust has a... worm house... in the classroom at their county HQ. It's not called a worm house...It's called a Can-O-Worms. I think I'd like one. Yes. Might inform those who purchase festive and birthday season gifts for me.
My worms would have to live outside as the house is too full what with the peanuts and bird seed.
Anyway.
I almost managed to interest a surveying head honcho in my soil project. She said that the best they do on soil is that OPAL survey, which I did - so I sounded like I was surprisingly ‘in the know’! I was rather astonished that they have done very little on soil until the last year or so and then only a tiny bit using OPAL. There’s stuff about the bacteria in Ancient Woodlands that seems to me to be critical to be on top of, as well as knowing the impact on soil of distance from field edges and what different soils do to impact the flora and fauna. Plus controlled studies in improving it, perhaps, by using chopped up brash as a compost, for example - something organic farmers are doing. Or even growing leguminous plants...
I mean, to study the flora and fauna without considering the soil seems to me like looking at the security of a building without even considering the foundations!!!
What is the point of building another storey, if the house is built on sand?
So. Worms. Two more images of the lovely creatures from my garden.
This shows that where I was digging in my garden was unlikely to have been disturbed at least during my occupancy (20 plus years) - so I found all these worms in uncultivated soil.
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