Welcome Spring!

Spring Is Here – Time to Create A Microbe Community in a Jar!

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A Winogradsky column is a microbial “garden” or “city” that grants you a window through which to witness the birth and growth of a microcosm of earth’s microbial community.

You can make your own microbe city in a clear glass jar.

One way to make a Winogradsky column to collect some sediment from the bottom of a lake or river.

Spring time is one of the best times to make your column. There is a more diverse microbial population in the spring time soil and sediments.
In the spring time earth right now, a community of trillions of diverse microbes are streaming about, eating organic nutrients. Did you know that they depend on one another for survival?

The Winogradsky column creates an artificial replicate of what goes on in the sediment, so that these diverse communities are stratified. These layers of different bacterial communities are separated by their access to oxygen and by access to nutrients which are depleted or abundant, depending on where they are locate in the column’s strata.

These Microbe communities depend on one another in their microcosm. Just like we do, especially now!

There is more on the recipe for making your own Microbe City, by going to the video on my Microbe Whisperer Youtube Channel.

Have some healthy fun in the sun, and welcome spring with this tip from Microbe Whisperer.

JeM YinJoy, Ph.D.

Create a Microbe City in a Jar!

A wonderful way to celebrate Spring, and to shake off those quarantined cramps, is to create a "Microbe City" in a jar.

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