I am currently developing Beneficial Bacteria Biodegradable Milk Polymer, an ever-growing detailed archive of artifacts and recipes for transforming raw fermented milk into a biodegradable polymer. During one step of the process, the substrate is a nutrient rich source of probiotic food known as milk kefir. The substrate is made of milk kefir, is entirely edible until it is polymerized, and will decompose back into the earth without harming the soil. To date, I have several different recipes for a variety of ways to manipulate the substrate into polymeric sculptural forms, including molding by hand, casting, press-molding, recycling/reconstituting, and 3-D printing.

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