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There are a good number of resources on the web and in bookstores on the
methods and science behind making healthy compost teas. Below are resources
on making compost tea and the science behind it.
BioCycle Magazine Reprints: Compost Teas and Compost Microbiology
"Understanding Compost Tea"
Vicki Bess, BioCycle, October 2000
www.jgpress.com/BCArticles/2000/100071.html
"Time for (Compost) Tea in
the Northwest
Adrienne Touart, BioCycle, October 2000
www.jgpress.com/BCArticles/2000/100074.html
"Brewing Compost Tea"
Elaine Ingham; A Kitchen Gardener reprint
www.taunton.com/finegardening/pages/g00030.asp
"Brewing Up Solutions To
Pest Problems"
Lisa Wickland, Todd Murray and Joyce Jimerson, BioCycle, March 2001
www.jgpress.com/BCArticles/2001/030164.html
"Evaluating Microbiology of
Compost"
Vicki Bess, BioCycle, May 1999
www.jgpress.com/BCArticles/1999/0599Art4.htm
"Using Compost To Control
Plant Diseases"
Tom De Ceuster and Harry Hoitink, BioCycle, June 1999
www.jgpress.com/BCArticles/1999/0699Art5.htm
Compost Microbiology and
the Soil Food Web
California Integrated Waste Management Board,
www.ciwmb.ca.gov/publications/default.asp?pubid=857
Microbial Activity and
Diversity of Soils and Composts
Vicki Bess, BBC Laboratories. Tempe,
Arizona
www.bbclabs.com/toppage3.htm
Information Bulletin No. 9, Winter 2001 (several
articles)
Organic Farming Research Foundation
www.ofrf.org/publications/news/ib9.pdf
(PDF, 1.9 MB)
Organic Teas from Composts and Manures
Richard Merrill, OFRF Grant Report 97–40
www.ofrf.org/publications/Grant%20reports/97.40.10.Merrill.Fall97.IB9.pdf
(PDF file of unknown size)
"Compost Tea for Organic Farming and Gardening"
2001. By William Quarles.
The IPM Practitioner. Vol. 23, No. 9 (September).
p. 1–8.
Bio-Integral Resource Center
(BIRC)
P.O. Box 7414, Berkeley, CA 94707, (510) 524-2567, (510) 524-1758 Fax
birc@igc.org,
Website:
www.birc.org
Peach Brown Rot Study at
Woodleaf Farm, Oroville, Calif.
Carl Rosato; OFRF on-farm research report
www.agroecology.org/cases/brownrot/studies.htm
North Coast Apple Scab
Trials 1993/1994, Organic and Conventional Materials Comparison
Paul Vossen and Doug Gubler; reprint from UC Plant Protection Quarterly
www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/newsltr/v7n4/sa-8.htm
Compost Tea Trials Final
Report
Submitted to Office of Environmental Management, City of Seattle.
Cascadia Consulting Group, March 8, 2001
www.cityofseattle.net/environment/Documents/Final%20Compst%20Tea%20report.pdf
(PDF file of unknown size)
Alternatives for Use &
Management of “Compost Tea”
Clean Washington Center
http://cwc.org/organics/cm002.htm
Evaluation and
Prioritization of Compost Facility Runoff Management Methods
Clean Washington Center
http://cwc.org/organics/organic_htms/cm002rpt.htm
http://cwc.org/organics/org002rpt.pdf
(PDF file of unknown size)
Evaluation of Compost
“Tea” for Reuse Opportunities (1997 & 1998)
Clean Washington Center
http://cwc.org/organics/cm981.htm
Evaluation of Compost
Facility Runoff for Beneficial Reuse, Phase 2
Clean Washington Center
http://cwc.org/organics/organic_htms/cm981rpt.htm
www.cwc.org/organics/org981rpt.pdf
"'Compost Tea' Allows
Gardeners to Brew Greener Pastures"
Steve Hill, University Week, University of Washington
http://depts.washington.edu/uweek/archives/2001.03.MAR_08/article9.html
"Making Fermented Compost
Tea"
Natural Life Magazine #44
www.life.ca/nl/44/compost.html
"From The Garden:
Oxygen-Rich Compost Tea Can Help Ward Off Summer’s Water Blues"
Ann Lovejoy, Thursday, March 15, 2001, Special to the Post-Intelligencer
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/nwgardens/lovejoy15x.shtml
"Feed Your Foodweb: Compost
Tea Strengthens Plants, Defends Against Disease"
Rachel Foster, Eugene Weekly
www.eugeneweekly.com/gardens/gardens01.html
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