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Scientists Have Just Successfully Grown Chickpeas In Simulated Moon Dirt For The First Time Using Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi To Absorb Nutrients And Water. (dailygalaxy.com)
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[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

We’re already working on worms in space!

https://www.esa.int/kids/en/news/Worms_in_space

Granted these aren’t the works we’d make vermicompost from … but still steps in that direction

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Cool. Sadly it doesn’t seem like it was even a goal for those worms to survive.