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Title: Compost, Vermicompost and Compost Tea
Condition: New
Description:

What are the advantages of making one's own compost? Is there really a benefit to using compost as opposed to building soil organic matter through other means? How can the decision about compost making affect a farm's economics? Part of the NOFA Guides series, this manual will help answer these questions, and is specifically intended to address the conditions faced by organic farmers in the Northeast.

Information on composting techniques, including:

  • Principles and biology of composting
  • Temperature, aeration and moisture control
  • Composting methods
  • Materials (additives and inoculants, biodynamic preparations)
  • About costs (site preparation, equipment, labor and time)
  • What do you do with it?
  • Compost tea and other brewed microbial cultures
  • Compost and the law

With extended appendices including a recipe calculator, potting mix recipes, and a sample compost production budget sheet.


Author: Grace Gershuny
Contributor: Jocelyn Langer (Illustrated by)
EAN: 9781603583473
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Illustrator: Jocelyn Langer
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1603583475
ISBN: 9781603583473
Edition: Revised and updated edition
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 153mm
Subtitle: Feeding the Soil on the Organic Farm
Type: Paperback
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
Topic: Technology & Engineering
Release Date: 25/03/2011
Language: English
Item Width: 7mm
Item Weight: 181g
Series: Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series
Release Year: 2011

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