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Re: Beneficial microbes - Destroying forest soil?
Hi Allan -
You certainly can use "bait boxes", where you let the soil and litter layer critters move into the bait. That's a way to get many of the bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes, microarthropods to move into the bait without destroying the forest soil. The longer you leave your bait box in the system of interest, the more likely you are to get more of the organisms. The more varied the food resources in the bait box, the greater the diversity of organisms you will be able to get from the system.
That's what Hoitink does with his compost piles at the edge of the forest. Why not do that, or why not just take a SMALL amount, just once, from the forest and get the inoculum in your compost? Multiply the organisms that are in your best soil in the compost. Don't use up all your forest soil by spreading it on your ag fields.
Elaine
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com