[Pil-pc-oceania] Soil Fertility:- Albrecht and Ingham

[Robyn Francis]

There¹s loads of good information on the Soil Food Web (Elaine Ingham) site
http://soilfoodweb.com  (check out the ezine archives) and they¹ve a lab in
Lismore NSW for soil testing. http://www.soilfoodweb.com.au/
Soil Food Web is about managing/encouraging the right organisms in soil to
correct nutrient imbalances, and pest and disease problems. It involves a
holistic view of life in the soil. A lot of their approach involves using
compost teas to introduce the required organisms  (bacteria, fungi, micro &
meso fauna) to the soil.

Elaine¹s work, along with Paul Stamets fungi research should be introduced
in PDC¹s.

Ciao
Robyn

On 7/4/08 9:39 AM, "Laurence Gaffney" <l.gaffney at bigpond.com> wrote:

> Two names keep cropping up in relation to Soil Fertility.
> 1.    Dr William Albrecht
> I have heard David Holmgren advocating Albrecht. In connection with Albrecht I
> think he once said that he was sending soil samples to the US for "special"
> analysis, as the type of analysis was not being done in Australia.
>  
> 2.    Dr Elaine Ingham
> This name I have heard associated with Soil Courses that she offers (in
> Australia from time to time) at some considerable expense.
>  
> Having undertaken some research myself I have found it difficult to grab hold
> of the basics of either of these approaches.
>  
> Can anyone nutshell either of these or had any experiences?
>  
> Laurence Gaffney 
>  
>  
> 
> 
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