Re: [compost_tea] Organica

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 06:39:37 EST

The point of compost tea is to have the bacteria, fungi and protozoa ACTIVE
when you add them to soil or plant surfaces. When orgnaisms are is in a
product that has to sit on the shelf for days, weeks or months, those
organisms must be "asleep", or the product would spoil. Therefore, no
product that can sit for days or weeks can function as a true compost tea.

None of the products from Organica contain the diversity of organisms that
are present in compost or in compost tea. Thus, no commerically available
product even comes close to being an "instant" compost tea.

If what you are saying about Organica is true, it would be sad to see a
company I always thought of as being reputable trying to hype a product in
such a fashion.

Please be wary.

Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com
SFI Oregon, USA
SFI Australia
SFI New York
SFI Europe
SFI New Zealand

"Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well,
but the conviction that what we are doing makes sense, no matter how things
turn out." -- Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic





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