We’re excited to announce our topic and speaker for November’s Virtual Super Stellar Friday! On November 6 at 7:00 PM, Wallis Boram will be talking to us about invasive jumping earthworms and their role in Northeast forests. Join us for Invasion of the Jumping Worms and learn how earthworms arrived in the Northeast, what their unique life cycle involves, and how their presence influences soil characteristics.

In honor of National Wildflower Week, this week’s Distance Learning offerings are focusing on the plant world.

Plants use their roots to absorb nutrients from the soil in which they are growing. The process of nutrient cycling captures elements such as nitrogen from the atmosphere, converts them into a usable form for plant nutrition, and returns those elements back to the atmosphere when the plant dies and decomposes. Learn more about the “how” and “why” of nutrient cycling here!