DIY Winogradsky Column
Make Your Own!
To make your own mud painting, Just do the following!
- Find a clear soda bottle
- Collect your mud (shovel, bucket, and an eye for anything that is different from anything else and scoop!)
- Get some chalk (it acts as a pH buffer), some eggs (the more eggs, the stinkier, so beware), and some shredded newspaper (it's like microbial potato chips - fast energy).
- Mix it all together, cover the soda bottle opening w seranwrap and an elastic band, and place it in your window!
- Daydream like Winogradsky and conceive of the "Cycle of Life".
Or go to these resources for methods.
- Soil Science: Make a Winogradsky Column, Scientific American 2013
- YouTube by NASA scientist Dr. Dodson