Soil Conservation

Chances are when you hear gardeners talking about their favorite manures you’re thinking of horses, cows, or chickens. But your local zookeeper hopes your tastes might run a little more exotic than that. With rhinos, hippos, zebras, camels, llamas, elephants and many other exotic animals to clean up after, a zoo produces a lot of… [Read More]

“ . . . And the worms crawl in, the worms crawl out They crawl all over your dirty snout Your chest caves in and your eyes pop out Your brain turns to sauerkraut They invite their friends, and their friends too They all come down to chew on you . . .” — old… [Read More]

Don’t you just love it when science catches up and confirms what grandmoms of old used to know? How many can remember your dear old, saintly grandma saying when she was watching you while mom and dad were out, “You have to eat a pound of dirt before you die, so have fun.” (Only to… [Read More]

When we talk about moving, a quarter of a mile from one home to another doesn’t seem like much. That is unless you are about 105 years old, have a storied beginning, are over ten stories tall and weigh in excess of 800,000 pounds, considered a local landmark and are a sequoia tree. Saint Luke’s… [Read More]

(The image above is sand taken by Dr. Gary Greenberg using an Edge 3D Microscope and can be found in his book, A Grain of Sand.) As you stroll along the sandy beach what consideration do you give what’s under your feet? Probably very little. Would you be surprised to know that it is quickly… [Read More]