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Re: [compost_tea] Re: Fwd: compost tea applications - persistance



Thanks again, Elaine.  People probably do what they know is right.  The better they know it the harder it is to modify the pattern.  Prime example - religion. People are killing the world over something they have no proof of.  Re- learn? Haven't in centuries.  Bob

 soilfoodweb@aol.com wrote:

Hi Bob -

If only the Growing Solutions and Soil Soup people would get their heads on straight, the world of compost tea could forge ahead faster.  But we have to bring the recalcitrant along with the rest of us. We waste time having to educate them, over and over. 

And if anyone doesn't believe that they have been harmful to the world of compost tea, just look at what Growing Solutions did with the work with BBC Labs.  We could have avoided all that frou-ha-ha with the Compost Task Force if the OMRI recommendation had just been followed from the very beginning. 

Sigh.  Can their ignorance harm the rest of us?  Very clearly, yes. Would there be less likelihood of harm if they would communicate with the rest of the world of compost tea before doing stupid and ignorant things on their own?

that over the eons native soils were reported by the expert(ELAINE)
to be generally very rich in microbes. Therefore microbes must
normally prosper in natural soil on native plants.  But there needs
to be plants and roots to complete the soildfoodweb for the mocrobes
to persist.  Am I on the right track?  Passionately,  Bob


The particular set of microbes that the particular plant needs will be benefitted.  and their residues must remain as foods to get the microbes through the winter. 

When we plow and till soil, we cause bacteria to bloom, and burn off those organic residues much more rapidly, leading to bacterial dominated soils, and loss of organic matter.  This has been documented over and over a
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