Compost, Vermicompost and Compost Tea

Feeding the Soil on the Organic Farm

Grace Gershuny (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

104 Seiten

2011 | Revised and updated edition
Chelsea Green Publishing Co (Verlag)
978-1-60358-347-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Grace Gershuny, in addition to her position on the staff of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Organic Program, has worked for many years as an educator, organizer, and market gardener. She is nationally known in the alternative agriculture movement, is the author of Start With the Soil, and Compost, Vermicompost and Compost Tea: Feeding the Soil on the Organic Farm as well as co-author of The Rodale Book of Composting and The Soul of Soil. She is on the faculties of the Institute for Social Ecology and Goddard College, and lives in Barnet, Vermont.

1. Why compost?

2. Principles and biology of composting

3. Temperature, moisture, and aeration

4. Composting methods

5. Materials

6. About costs

7. When is compost finished? and how is it applied?

8. Compost tea and other brewed microbial cultures

9. Compost and the law

Reihe/Serie	Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series ; 3
Illustrationen	Jocelyn Langer
Zusatzinfo	Index; Bibliography; Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	White River Junction
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 229 mm
Gewicht	181 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-60358-347-5 / 1603583475
ISBN-13	978-1-60358-347-3 / 9781603583473
Zustand	Neuware