Re: [compost_tea] remediation

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:56:11 EDT

Hi Jeff -

Thanks for checking out their website and getting back to the list. It is a
different group than what I thought.

The product you are looking at works great on certain kinds of oil spills,
but not on others. This product works great in moist, humid climates, but not
wet, and not in arid areas, or in soils with little organic matter. Of course,
the petroleum spill is organic matter, but not something you would really
count as useable food.

140 billion microbes, but of limited species diversity.

All of us who work with real soil know what that means.

The fatty acids they use are specific foods that give the bacteria the energy
to do their job of breaking down the petroleum products that they are
effective at decomposing. Where the microbes are matched to conditions and petroleum
product, this product works great. But it doesn't work on all things in all
places.

OK?

Elaine R. Ingham
Soil Foodweb Inc., Corvallis, Oregon
Soil Foodweb Inc., Port Jefferson, New York
Soil Foodweb Institute, Lismore Australia
Soil Foodweb Institute Cambridge, New Zealand
Laboratorios de Soil Foodweb, Culiacan, Mexico
Soil Foodweb Inc., Jerome, Idaho
Soil Foodweb Inc., South Africa







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