March 18th, 2009 We've started to analyze different soil samples from gardens around campus to see how we check out in terms soil life and nutrient content.  This sounds fancy, but practically from my end this has involved a lot of shakin' test tubes with chemicals and small pieces of soil (see impressive science-in-action photo below).  After I do my part, it goes off into this magical machine that spits back concentrations of different compounds.  We'll get the numbers together in a couple ...
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