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I’m part of the “big business, energy- and resource-consuming compost tea industrial complex”

We started selling compost tea last year, and soon enough the name Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott came up. Dr. Chalker-Scott is a professor at WSU (Washington State University) who has written about compost tea before. She feels the science is far … Continue reading

29. February 2012 by Trey Pitsenberger
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Compost tea serves up controversy

We have started brewing and selling compost tea at our garden center. Never having brewed or used it I though it would be fun to see what happened. So we have been applying it in my vegetable garden as a … Continue reading

02. August 2011 by Trey Pitsenberger
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Feeling crunchy?

Got my latest issue of one of the trade magazines we receive every month, Today’s Garden Center. Jennifer Ploanz, editor writes about “Going after ‘Crunchy”. As she explains, the term “crunchy” is a newer more positive version of hippy. It’s … Continue reading

24. April 2011 by Trey Pitsenberger
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