Project Happy Soil (PHS)
by Audy Lebovitz
Humans have been gardening since the their first known existence, the American Indians. We have somehow developed a means to harvest food from nature, and live off of our environment. The human species continues to evolve, continuing to use the methods our ancestors have used to survive. Some of us trust the tradition of the people from long ago, but perhaps this may be the time, in a nearing environmental crisis, to think about our decisions. We know that gardening benefits the soil, and the well-being of humans, with its harvest. Do these benefits harm other species around us, who are living in the soil? In this advent, we will zoom down into the soil, and look at how the insects are reacting to the tradition humans have carried out for so many years.
Project Happy Soil aims to solve the questions that may be asked about the impact of gardening on insects. Project Happy Soil is an experiment that will test the growth of plants on the insect populations in soil. We hope to find that gardening does increase the insect population, that the plants may be benefiting the insect species. We hope to see that the plants are promoting the growth of insects, filling our soil with more life, and more insects. These insects can benefit our ecosystem in many ways, perhaps giving more nutrients to plants. We must also think of the observe way, that perhaps insects may degrade the living of plants. In this case, we must stop gardening, and show the world to the light.
There lies another light in the horizon, we may find that gardening negatively impacts the insect population and we must halt our traditions. We must save our planet for all that threatens it. Like global warming, killing other species is creating a black hole in our ecosystem, sucking in all the life around it. Project Happy Soil will prove a justification for the Environmental Club, providing us with a rationale for our gardening. Together, the world shall unite, and seal up this black hole. Whether this black hole exists or not, when we are all done thinking about it, the hole will be long gone.
by Audy Lebovitz
Humans have been gardening since the their first known existence, the American Indians. We have somehow developed a means to harvest food from nature, and live off of our environment. The human species continues to evolve, continuing to use the methods our ancestors have used to survive. Some of us trust the tradition of the people from long ago, but perhaps this may be the time, in a nearing environmental crisis, to think about our decisions. We know that gardening benefits the soil, and the well-being of humans, with its harvest. Do these benefits harm other species around us, who are living in the soil? In this advent, we will zoom down into the soil, and look at how the insects are reacting to the tradition humans have carried out for so many years.
Project Happy Soil aims to solve the questions that may be asked about the impact of gardening on insects. Project Happy Soil is an experiment that will test the growth of plants on the insect populations in soil. We hope to find that gardening does increase the insect population, that the plants may be benefiting the insect species. We hope to see that the plants are promoting the growth of insects, filling our soil with more life, and more insects. These insects can benefit our ecosystem in many ways, perhaps giving more nutrients to plants. We must also think of the observe way, that perhaps insects may degrade the living of plants. In this case, we must stop gardening, and show the world to the light.
There lies another light in the horizon, we may find that gardening negatively impacts the insect population and we must halt our traditions. We must save our planet for all that threatens it. Like global warming, killing other species is creating a black hole in our ecosystem, sucking in all the life around it. Project Happy Soil will prove a justification for the Environmental Club, providing us with a rationale for our gardening. Together, the world shall unite, and seal up this black hole. Whether this black hole exists or not, when we are all done thinking about it, the hole will be long gone.