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Last summer we took a crack at microscopy in a bit of an unconventional way. Matt Powers said that you could look at things without a coverslip and shine light from above to see roots and such in a new way for testing. It ends up becoming like a weird macro camera. I was sold, in fact I started doing that before I finished the base curriculum of his course. As a kid I would imagine being really small and experiencing what we see as a texture on something or a shape at a whole other scale. This quickly became my favorite way to use the microscope. The architecture of the microverse is oddly satisfying and reminds me of the cover of a science fiction novel. I’ve watched nematodes slither across biochar micro landscapes and soil mites climb blindly on soil aggregates as if bouldering in the compost pile. Matt has videos of bacteria being exuded out of a root hair using methylene blue as a stain. I found that life at this scale is translucent, even wood chips. Unreal. Though I had learned about the light receiving nature of things like leaves and even roots and microbes from Matt, to see wood and watch the light pass through it like an odd crystal was on another level for me. One by one I would continue to see this effect as you'll see in this footage here.

Anyway, Sarah caught wind of the technique and wanted to check out mycelial cultures from her friend’s grow. We pulled together an assortment of weird things and invited her over. We saw leaves from the yard with aphids and whitefly (basically aliens), fungal mycelium from Sarah and our other friend, the head of a housefly I carefully detached, and an open top liquid I let get weird on the counter. It was a combination of stuff like kombucha, coffee, orange pulp and I forget what else. The batch before that produced countless naked amoebas on like day 5, so I was kind of gamin on countertop brews for a minute… (probably not the best idea.)

I recommend checking out the white fly and aphid life cycle videos on youtube if your interested in what we were looking at in this video. I tried to guess but, not only was I wrong, those videos are incredibly interesting and capture shots of every aspect of it as they are explaining. Oh, also check out leaf miner, that ones cool too.

Then at the end, we walked around the outside of our house taking a look at the rain water harvesting food forests we have in our front and back yard if your interested in that sort of thing.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:33 Getting Setup
2:22 Fungal Mycelium
12:12 Fungi 2
20:28 Fungi 3
31:33 Peach Leaf Aphids
53:32 Whitefly On Hibiscus
1:00:35 Fly Face Prep
1:03:33 Fly Face
1:10:25 Mikey Outro
1:12:28 Tristan Intro + Countertop Fluid
1:19:50 Property Tour
1:25:51 Food Forest
1:29:21 Outro

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