permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@bellsouth.net>]

=-you'll need to seek other opinions and the literature, but aerobic compost
=tea and its army of billions of soil microbes does wonders on our crops and
=pasture land. In my experience, It is the only sane economic path to take
=for compost on acreage. And, if we are to believe Elaine Ingham and others [
=which I do] these critters are the secret of the work that compost does.
=Dick Pierce

Useful links on this topic:

Glomalin: Hiding Place for a Third of the World's Stored Soil Carbon 
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/sep02/soil0902.htm
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/SoilWiki/message-archives/composttea+soilfoodweb+soilquality/1/maillist.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/SoilWiki/message-archives/composttea+soilfoodweb+soilquality/2/maillist.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/SoilWiki/message-archives/composttea+soilfoodweb+soilquality/3/maillist....  Read 
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/SoilWiki/message-archives/composttea+soilfoodweb+soilquality/3/maillist.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/SoilWiki/message-archives/composttea+soilfoodweb+soilquality/4/maillist.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/SoilWiki/message-archives/composttea+soilfoodweb+soilquality/5/maillist.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/permaculture/mailarchives/discussion-threads/soil-quality
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/orgfarm/remineralization/remineralization.selected-writings
http://www.pmac.net/slqual.htm
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/soil-links+lit.html