Soil Foodweb Week at BD-Now: Here are some additional resources as background material to the soil foodweb week at BD-Now, Elaine Ingham's work with compost teas, etc.
Notes on Compost Teas: A 2001 Supplement to the ATTRA Publication Compost Teas for Plant Disease Control http://ncatark.uark.edu/~steved/compost-tea-notes.doc This is a brand new update to the ATTRA publication from 1998. It lists the equipment suppliers for compost tea brewers and their websites; it provides a summary of Elaine Inghams' characteristics for healthy soils, composts, and compost teas; it provides an intrepretive summary of the key points to compost teas; and it provides a big collection of web links to resources on compost biology, compost teas, compost disease suppression, etc. Some of these web links are exceptional resources from Ingham, Brinton, OFRF, CWIMB, etc. A complementary compost tea item on my web page, PowerPoint slide notes from the seminar at Mtn. Organic Grower's School in NC: Compost Teas: A Tool for Rhizosphere-Phyllosphere Agriculture [Six slides per page -- print for quick reference format; = 1303K] http://ncatark.uark.edu/~steved/compost-tea-print.pdf Next, my home-spun treatise on clay-humus: clay-humus, food and shelter for the soil foodweb, clay amendments, rock dust amendments, applied microbiology, paramagnetism, bioenergetics, biodynamics, eco-farming, Luebke compost, etc. Clay-Humus: The Seat of Soil Fertility; A Treatise on the Vital Role of Clay-Humus Crumb Structure and Organo-Mineral Complexes in Soils http://ncatark.uark.edu/~steved/clay-humus.html Finally, Web Resource Collections on Soil Biology Sustainable Soil Management: Web Links to Make Your Worms Happy! http://ncatark.uark.edu/~steved/soil-links.html Content: Web resource list from ATTRA Soil Biology Information Resources For Land Managers, Resource Professionals, and Educators http://www.statlab.iastate.edu/survey/SQI/SBinfo.htm Content: Web resource list from NRCS-Soil Quality Institute Steve Diver
