Re: [compost_tea] wood compost vrs. manure-based compost

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:45:59 EDT

Correct, manure-based compost USUALLY is strongly bacterial, because the
manure is anaerobic, has foods to grow bacteria more than fungi, and is high in
nitrate.

If you put together a starting recipe that adds enough fungal food, then you
can make a fungal dominated manure-based compost. But most composting
operations don't understand the biology they are working with, and so don't compost
in a way to help the fungi. Most of the time they don't compost aerobically,
so they don't make compost.

Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com
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