Oliver Knox, a senior lecturer at the School of Environmental and Rural Science at the University of New England in New South Wales, and CottonInfo, the Australian cotton industry’s joint extension programme, are behind the effort, which started in 2018 when Knox and Sally Dickinson, a regional extension officer with CottonInfo, asked 50 farmers if they would be willing to bury their underwear for science. If it is mostly intact, then work is necessary to improve the situation. If there is not much left of the cloth, then the soil is healthy and teeming with activity. The state of the garments when they are retrieved will indicate the health of the microbiome. Hundreds of people – from farmers to schoolchildren – are burying their cotton underwear in their back gardens to dig up eight weeks later as part of a citizen science project called the Soil Your Undies Challenge that began in the United States before spreading overseas and is now gathering momentum in Australia.Ĭotton is made of a sugar called cellulose, making it a tasty snack for microbes and the army of other tiny decomposers that live in the soil. It appears that there are people who buy and sell and wear strange underwear.Armidale, Australia – What can white cotton underwear tell you about the health of the soil in your farm or garden? Quite a lot, it turns out. Which is very different than when I posted in another mom group site which was like “I always sell my really cheap at sales” and “I always donate to school/day care/foster closet”. Darn rural American there is not easy access recycling.Īlmost everyone here says trash. Sadly none of the recycling places seem to want to ship to me. Since these are stained they are getting cut and trashed today. My husband says someone who has no money and truly in need won’t care if they are used. I know day cares and schools have used underwear stashed for accidents which is what made me question donating (before I saw the stains). I didn’t want my privilege get in the way. My husband is usually great but I definitely grew up with more advantages than he did. (They don’t use socks or underwear or many baby clothing as it is too little to clean their hands with) Large clothing gets used as a grease rag in the workshop so those items disappear quietly. MIL is always bringing us stained or items with holes she finds at garage sales. Husband grew up quite poor and money was always a issue so I think he got second hand underwear although he doesn’t specifically remember. I say that no one wants stained underwear and why make trash for the blessing box caretakers. I want to toss them but now my husband says I am spoiled and if we don’t want them I should but them in the charity blessing box. When I get them out to fold I notice the crotch of all of the are stained (almost like female discharge stains). I toss them in a sanitize load of laundry. My husband says it is fine so I wash them. I don’t like the idea of having kid wear them as I don’t know who the family is. My mil went to a garage sale and got used kids underwear. If you don't see your post in the new section, please message the mods. Want to share a blog? Please link it in our monthly blog thread, and don't forget to post it at /r/mombloggers! Downvotes are for comments that add nothing to the discussion. Please don't downvote opinions just because you disagree with them. We've been there (some more than others) and we want to help. Please feel free to post ANY question, no matter how "silly" or irrational you think it is. Offers or requests of assistance are not allowed and may result in a ban. Unkind comments or personal attacks may result in a ban. "Am I pregnant?" and preg test posts will be removed.īe Kind. Moms only, whether commenting, or posting. NO blogs or surveys outside the stickied monthly blog/survey post, absolutely NO promotions/advertising. We want to be here for other moms who are going through the same experiences and offer a helping hand. It may not always be pretty, fun and awesome, but we do it. We are moms mucking through the ickier parts of child raising.
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