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



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
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