The Soil Foodweb Approach to Compost Tea

Soil Foodweb Technology is based on years of research by many different people. All science builds on previous science, the efforts of scientists to understand why the world works the way it does. Science is an on-going process of quantitative assessment and understanding of mechanisms on which life is based.

In the following information, we have provided a number of links to pages that also share in this voyage of discovery. There is much yet to discover. Please work with us to find the sustainable approach…

Soil Foodweb Approach

1. Understanding the Soil Foodweb
1. Benefits of a Healthy Foodweb
2. Soil Food Web Model picture diagram
3. Soil Food Web Model box and arrow diagram
4. 12-Step Approach to Understanding the Soil Food Web
5. What Food Web Does My Plant Need?
6. Plant Succession diagram
7. Interpreting Soil Foodweb information
8. The Nitrogen Cycle and Soil Food Webs
9. Repairing the Soil Food Web
10. Recent Papers to Understand the Soil Food Web
2. Understanding Compost Biology
1. The SFI Compost Approach
2. Compost Food Web box and arrow diagram
3. How to Tell Good Compost – Compost Standards
3. Understanding Compost Tea
   1. Why use Compost Tea?
   2. How does the Foliar Food Web Affect Plants?
   1. Foliar diagram enlarged
   3. The Foliar Food Web
   1. How to make Actively Aerated Compost Tea
   2. Fermentative Compost Tea
   3. Long-Brewing Compost Tea
   4. Not-Aerobic Compost Tea
   4. How to tell if a tea is good
   5. Compost Tea Standards
   6. Compost Extract, Leachate, Plant Tea Definitions
   7. Compost Tea Application Approaches. Application Amounts
   8. Programs for Converting to Biological Farming.
   9. USGS Maximum Dissolved Oxygen in Water table.
   10. Grower Experiences with Compost Tea
   11. The Compost Tea Brewing Manual