[compost_tea] Re: Forest litter

From: Titel Ryzhomer <thegoodjob_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:44:35 -0000

This is a good point to raise. There are methods outlined, which are
available through Steve Diver, to place a medium (such as cooked
brown rice) into (under) the forest litter for a period of time and
collect the 'fungal innoculant' (presumably mycorrhizae) in this
medium. This can then be taken to your farm and intrduced into your
compost pile, garden bed, microbial stew or whatever other broader
medium you choose to 'experimentally' expand it into. That way you
are removing very little substance from the forest and leaving the
ecology intact. This is something that you must make your own
decision about following research and experimentation. You cannot
simply assume that what you have is packed with goodies. It seems
that the compost pile would be the safest place to innoculate and
grow this fungi.

Cheers,
Tim  'Titel'

--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, "Pamela T. Henares"
<pthenares_at_r...> wrote:
> In the Korean Natural Farming which Gil Carandang shared with us
and
> also with Steve Diver, we use forest litter to extract
microorganisms
> and we use this in the brew that we make.
>
> Pam
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LB [mailto:rlbct_at_c...]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 7:44 AM
> To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [compost_tea] Forest litter
>
>
> > I have not heard of anybody using litter from old forest floor.
It
> > is full of fungi so mixed with thermal compost to make ACT make a
> > fungal tea. I am thinking of using it on row crops and wheat. any
> > thoughts.
>
> It has been mentioned before as an innoculant;  but of course if
you
> take
> very much it deprives the forest of its livelihood and ecology
suffers.
> I take it the if there is a lot of litter, it won't miss the odd
> handful...
>
> Lynton
>
>
>
>

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