Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Beneath the surface of the Earth lives a tremendous diversity of microbes, including many species of bacteria and fungi. These microorganisms vary in shape and size, and most of them are not even as thick as a hair. Though invisible to the naked eye, soil microbes play a fundamental role …
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Let’s take a closer look at the overall process of decomposition of dead plant and animal tissue. The tiniest single-celled microbes, like any living thing, need to eat. What they prefer to consume is organic matter—anything that was once alive or, in the case of some pathogenic microbes, still alive. …