Tag Archive | "Compost Tea"

Landscape Sustainability: Examples in Three States

Friday, September 30, 2011

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I just returned fully energized this evening from a whirlwind tour of three Mid-Atlantic states. The topics at each stop were landscape sustainability and safety and the examples, at dozens of locations, were stunning. Wednesday evening began with an overview of the Delaware Center for Horticulture with Lenny Wilson, Assistant Director of Horticulture and Facilities at [...]

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Compost Tea Gets Mainstream Plug

Friday, September 9, 2011

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Just back from a soil biology training session with one of the country’s leading experts, Paul Wagner, at the Soil Food Web on Long Island, I remain in awe of the world’s smallest creatures. These are the bacteria, protozoa, nematodes etc. that make our life on the planet possible. Healthy soil, ironically, can probably best [...]

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NOFA Plans Clinic on Compost Tea in September

Monday, August 16, 2010

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Compost tea is one of the oldest, yet most misunderstood, tools for the organic gardener — whether professional or amateur. The Northeast Organic Farmers Association will hold a day-long seminar “Producing and Applying Actively Aerated Compost Tea” open to the public on Sept. 21 beginning at 9 a.m. at Stonewall Farm, Keene, N.H. Here’s the official [...]

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Compost Tea: Resources for Brewing Your Own

Monday, June 14, 2010

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Applications of compost “tea” have been around as long as gardening has been around. Long before science proved the efficacy of compost tea, our forebears just instinctively knew that the substance — biologically active liquid — would have beneficial results in the soil. And while many are still mired in the debate about whether compost tea [...]

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Does Compost Tea Work? A View From the Post

Thursday, April 15, 2010

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Adrian Higgins, the gardening writer for the Washington Post, has been a good friend to SafeLawns in the past four years — including this rather epic front-page article back in 2007: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/19/AR2007091900472.html. In today’s Post, Adrian, a devout organic gardener himself, tackles the age-old question of whether or not compost tea works: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/13/AR2010041303646.html. It’s a subject matter [...]

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Compost Tea: Does It Work, or Not?

Sunday, February 7, 2010

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I’ve long told the story of my Grandmother, Clarida Van Dyne, and her “manure” tea that she made on her dairy farm in Bradford, Maine. In recent years, as I’ve espoused the virtues of applying compost tea to the landscape to add valuable micronutrients and, most importantly, microbial life to the soil, I’ve had all [...]

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