Compost, Vermicompost and Compost Tea (eBook)

Grace Gershuny (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011 | Revised and updated edition
104 Seiten
Chelsea Green Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-60358-348-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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 compostingTemperature, aeration and moisture controlComposting methodsMaterials (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 culturesCompost and the lawWith extended appendices including a recipe calculator, potting mix recipes, and a sample compost production budget sheet.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series
• Reihe/Serie: Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series
• Reihe/Serie: Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series
• Illustrationen: Jocelyn Langer
• Zusatzinfo: Black and white illustrations
• Verlagsort: White River Junction
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: Arnie Voehringer • compost biology • composting • compost potting-mix recipes • compost recipe calculator • compost vermi • compost, vermi • compost vermicompost • compost vermicompost and compost tea • compost worms • Earth Care Farm • Farm • farming • farm-scale composting • high-temperature composting • how to brew and use compost tea • how to start composting • Humus • Ideal Compost • Karl Hammer • low-temperature composting • Massachusetts • Mike Lombard • Mike Merner • Moody Hill Farms • New England Small Farms Institute • New Hampshire • New York • Nofa • organic • organic farming in the Northeast united states • organic farming with your own compost • organic natural fertilizer • Rhode Island • Rodale Institute • Rodale Research Center • Soil • Soil Ecology • Soil health • Vermont • Vermont Compost Company • White Oak Farm • Worms
• ISBN-10: 1-60358-348-3 / 1603583483
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60358-348-0 / 9781603583480