Earth Tea

Eco Sustainable Village

Note: This article has been studied by our experts and we have found it as a viable technology for eco sustainable villages.

Few gallons Equal 20 Tons of Compost

PART -1

Summery of Proposal:

We offer the most advanced technology in organic farming to the people of Pakistan. The soil soup is the extract from compost with millions of microbes per tea spoon that surpass any previous technology in agricultural science to increase the yield by 300-400% and reducing the risk of crop diseases by the same ratio.

Objective: Low cost solutions to rebuild the economy of Pakistan and creating thousands of new jobs while transferring technology & training the local work force to rely on their own resources that are locally available and manufacturing future units inside the country, steering the economy towards prosperity by our cutting edge innovative technology.

Executive Summery: Most of Pakistan is rich in hilly fertile land however the fertility decreases over time and it needs to be revived by high quality compost. The required compost for each acre is between 10 to 20 tons. The most advanced technology makes it possible to get the same benefits from just 20 gallons of soil soup properly brewed in our specially designed brewer. It is a very cost effective technology that works with the plants and soil itself to increase the growth by nearly 400% while giving the crops many fold strength to fight all kinds of known diseases.

The Benefits of Using Soil Soup

	Soil Soup will out perform chemical fertilizer. Increasing both plant size and yield. This is due to interaction of Soil Soup microbes with the soil microbes and protozoa, soil particles and the roots of the plant itself.
	Soil Soup used as an inoculant for potting soil will suppress airborne pathogenic fungi that can readily infect sterile potting medium. The organisms in Soil Soup also produce hormones, vitamins, nutrients, enzymes, amino acids and minerals needed by seedling cuttings and young plants. Inoculation should be done two weeks prior to planting.
	Plants grown in soil treated with Soil Soup are healthier due to the symbiotic relationship between the plant and the microbes in the root zone. Plants feed the microbes and the microbes produce or make available all of the food and medicine the plant needs to thrive.
	Plants grown in soil treated with Soil Soup are more nutritious than plants grown in soil treated with chemical fertilizer. The food value of these plants is increased due to the availability of minerals, vitamins, enzymes and amino acids.
	Soil Soup can remediate soil that has been damaged by agricultural chemicals. With repeated application the microbes will adapt to the soil, convert and metabolize organic and inorganic chemicals. They will also sequester heavy metals not required by plants.
	Soil Soup can treat lawns affected with thatch, which is a condition caused by sterility in the underlying soil. Chemicals usually cause sterility. Soil Soup will repopulate the soil with microbes, enrich the roots and break down the thatch turning it into food for the grass.
	Soil Soup applied to the soil improves water retention. Many of the microbes manufacture protective mucus that acts as glue to agglomerate soil particles. Microbial colonies also make a bio-slime that is mostly water and is retained to protect the colony. The water retentive property of healthy soil can be 3-4 times greater than unhealthy soil.
	Soil Soup applied along with insoluble granulated or powdered minerals such as: granite, limestone and rock phosphate will supply 95% of everything the soil needs. The other 5% is organic material applied as mulch or litter on the surface of the soil or as dead root material under the soil surface.
	The microbes in Soil Soup turn organic matter into humus, storing energy for later use. This is the basic unit of soil fertility.
	The microbes in Soil Soup feed other organisms in the soil food chain. Protozoa and nematodes feed on bacteria and fungi directly while worms ingest bacteria laden soil particles. All life in the soil depends on microbes, directly or indirectly.
	Soil Soup applied, as a foliar spray will act as a fertilizer. Plants will produce more foliage and larger stems. This is a good treatment for plants that are stressed or lacking enough sun.
	Soil Soup applied to a compost pile will accelerate the breakdown of plant material reducing the amount of time to make compost. It can also be used to re-inoculate the pile after it has gone through its hot phase, which inactivates or kills many of the beneficial microbes. Re-inoculation increases the population of beneficial microbes, which continue to breakdown organic matter and form humus.

IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT THIS TECHNOLOGY

How Soil Soup work

When plants are provided with the appropriate microbial populations in their biosphere, they are able to gather and offer the nutrients that the plant needs at every given moment, upon demand. The demand for nutrients varies throughout the plant's cycles, and is determined by sunlight, heat and the plants in question. When microbes are put back into the soil, they do the search out the nutrients and provide them for the plant as needed. Bacteria give off nitrogen as they live and die and cycle through the soil. Carbon sources, like bark mulch on the soil, decaying matter, or peat in a potting media, are essential in providing a food source for the microbes to digest.

Microbes life cycle in the soil

They can live for hours, days or weeks, depending on the type. A good Soil Soup contains a large diversity of organisms, the idea being that with a wide diversity some will adhere to the foliage, and some to the stems or the root zone of the different plants. Those that find the environment appropriate, and find a food source on the plant or in the soil will live and replicate. As the microbes expire, they offer an available form of nitrogen to other microbes and to the plant itself. There are hundreds of thousands of species of beneficial bacterium, and they all provide nutrients as they live and die in the soil.

When to treat with Soil Soup

If your soil is hungry and deficient in nutrients, plants are likely to exhibit signs of yellowing on the leaves or various forms of discoloration, depending on the nutrient deficiency. Often the soil is lacking a minor trace element, and the microbes can help with making these nutrients available from the Soil Soup or surrounding mulches and/or the soil itself. A treatment with Soil Soup once every week or two for 3-4 weeks in a row would be an inexpensive way to provide the plant with the tools that it may need to solve its own problem.

Lawn and turf applications should be judged by how healthy the lawn is, how old it is, and what kind of soil is under it. Many lawns are laid with little or no organic matter under them, mostly sand. After a few years, these lawns fall into decline, unless they are boosted regularly with heavy chemical fertilizers. The Soil Soup will work on decomposing the thatch in the lawn, breaking it down into nutrients that are then available to the plants. A troubled lawn may benefit greatly with once monthly applications of Soil Soup instead of chemical based fertilizers. A healthy lawn may only need 4 treatments per year. If a lawn was laid with a heavy-duty base of well-composted soil, tea treatments may be made only 2 times yearly. Trees and shrubs can be evaluated on a case-by- case basis.

Excessive use of soil soup

Well-composted material is used for obtaining Soil Soup's microbial content, and that is what makes the difference. Beneficial bacteria are largely the bulk of the liquid. The bacteria adhere to everything in their path, leaves, stems, and soil particles all in the same way. Run-off is not an issue, unless someone dumps them directly into a lake or stream. As with all materials, caution should be made not to over saturate the ground.

As far as hurting plants is concerned, using a fresh, high quality Soil Soup, on very fresh, tender seedlings the only concern would be watering at 100%, without diluting. The active bio-chemicals in the Soil Soup may cause some burning on the leaf tissue. Other than that, it cannot over-treat. It is more an issue of time and energy used to make the Soil Soup. Again: the plants take what they need when they need it, and most of our garden soils are so far from being microbially diverse and healthy that we have a long way to go.

Most common dilution rates

For aerobically produced Soil Soup of good quality, the standard rate is 1:10 parts water. When spraying for the first time on soil or new foliage, use undiluted Soil Soup is the best choice. Two weeks later, spraying again diluting to half strength with water and after that, spray once a month. In gardens that have been chemically maintained and are transitioning to natural care, dilute monthly sprays 2:1 with water. In gardens that have been maintained only with organic amendments, monthly sprays may be diluted as much as 10:1. As a rule of thumb, the healthier the soil, the healthier the plants.

How long does it take to make Soil Soup

The brewing time depends on the system, and temperature that the operator is working with. If the ambient temperature is 70 degrees F, it takes approximately 24 hours, possibly 36 when the nights are cool.

Difference between Compost and Soil Soup

Compost is the bulk, solid material with which we amend or top dress gardens orchards and crops. Many of the benefits of compost can be seen with Soil Soup, with the exception of the physical bulk of the compost itself. As long as there are nutrients for the Soil Soup microbes to work with in the soil, the same benefits will be had by using Soil Soup as with using compost. Soil Soup works particularly well in situations where it is not easy to add the bulk compost itself, like onto lawns, and into containers, and into difficult to reach areas of the garden. The microbes in the tea are readily available to the soil and roots of the plants, into whatever depth water can penetrate. With established plantings, it is sometimes difficult to get the microbes to the root zone. Some landscapers are injecting Soil Soup into the root zones of established plantings.

Compost tea is a solution made by steeping compost in much the same way as a normal pot of tea. Regular compost tea contains approximately one million microbes per teaspoon. We found that by adding our Soil Soup Nutrient Solution to this tea and using the Soil Soup Bio-Blender to aerate the mixture, we were able to increase the microbe count to as many as one billion per teaspoon.

Why are microbes important

Microbes are the living part of our soil. Microbes, decaying organic matter and other critters that live in the dirt combine to form the rich, sweet-smelling soil that lets us grow healthy crops.

Microbes are of the greatest importance because they:

	Help make up the bottom of the food chain
	Make nitrogen and minerals available to plants
	Break down plant and animal waste
	Make medicine for plants
	Store energy for later use
	Microbes are not washed away by water.

Why not just use compost?

We can and should if you have enough of it. However, the amount of compost required for raising vegetables is from 10 to 25 tons per acre. A large compost pile weighs between 2 and 3 tons. Therefore, we would need 5 to 10 good-sized compost piles to properly fertilize just 1 acre of vegetable crops!

How much Soil Soup is required?

The recommended quantity is about 20 gallons per acre. We can use more or less depending on your particular situation. It is important however, to do this once a month-just before and during the growing season.

Why does the soil need compost or Soil Soup more than once?

The soil and the plants that grow in it form a symbiotic energy system. This means that if we do not harvest the plants and just leave them in the field to die, we could get by with just one application because the decaying plants would feed the soil. The soil would do just fine, but we would starve. Every time we harvest we remove energy from this symbiotic system which must be replenished. This is why we must apply these beneficial nutrients more than once.

What equipment is needed to make Soil Soup?

We only need three things:

	The Soil Soup Bio-Blender
	The Soil Soup Mixing Tub
	The Soil Soup Tea Bag and Holder

What goes into Soil Soup?

Soil Soup's Nutrient Solutions when mixed with water and high quality compost are the ingredients needed to brew Soil Soup.

How to apply Soil Soup?

It can be applied as a spray or a drench depending on how much moisture is in the soil. It can be applied full strength to new soil or diluted down as much as 100:1 for other applications. Soil Soup can be used as a foliar spray to feed plants and combat diseases such as late blight and other fungal diseases.

Can Soil Soup be saved for later use?

Unfortunately it cannot be saved. Because the microbes use up all of the oxygen that was stirred into the soup the shelf life is only about 12 hours. After that, some of the microbes die because they cannot live without air. Others become anaerobic which causes them to produce a foul smelling gas and other useless by-products.

What is a Soil Soup Bio-Blender?

The Soil Soup Bio-Blender plays the most important part in the making of Soil Soup. Without it you would only have compost tea. The Bio-Blender stirs oxygen into the compost tea, creating an environment conducive to the aerobic reproduction of the microbes in the tea. The end result is a Soil Soup Compost Tea mixture containing a highly concentrated level of microbes.

Compost 'tea' and 'soil soup' are good for ailing plants

Soil Soup can prevent or cure many of the nasty diseases that afflict plants. That's because compost is alive - and some of its helpful little organisms actually consume plant diseases directly. By providing all of the nutrients that plants need, compost also increases their overall health and vigor, making them much less attractive to pests and disease. And some of the organisms in compost even seem to boost the immune system of plants.

PART-2

What is Compost Tea?

Compost tea is a highly concentrated microbial solution produced by extracting beneficial microbes from vermicompost and or compost. This "brew" is produced by adding nutrients to water that is highly aerated. Compost and or Vermicompost is then placed in a "tea bag or basket" and suspended in solution and the extraction process begins. Using the proper equipment, good quality compost tea can be brewed in 24 hours.

What are the potential benefits of compost tea?

Compost tea provides:

Direct Nutrition

· A source of foliar and soil organic nutrients.

· Chelated micronutrients for easy plant absorption

· Nutrients in a biologically available form for both plant and microbial uptake

Microbial Functions

· Compete with disease causing microbes

· Degrade toxic pesticides and other chemicals

· Produce plant growth hormones

· Mineralize plant available nutrients

· Fix nitrogen

· Plant surfaces are occupied by beneficial microbes leaving no room for Pathogens to infect the plant (squatters rights)

Food for thought- If a man has cancer, does he have cancer because of a lack of chemotherapy in his body? Absolutely not! So it is with plants. Does a plant have a disease because of a lack of pesticides or herbicides? "Healthy plants" grow in soils that are vibrant and full of microbial life.

Compost tea will help to create a balanced soil foodweb.

A balanced Soil Foodweb will:

1.Suppress disease-causing and pest organisms

2. Improve the nutritional quality of the plant.

3. Produce good soil structure, improving water infiltration, oxygen
diffusion, and water-holding capacity.

4. Retain nitrogen and other nutrients such as calcium, iron,
potassium, phosphorus, etc.

5.Make nutrients available for plant growth at the times plants require
at the rates plants require.

6.Decompose plant residues rapidly

7.Reduce worker exposure to potentially harmful chemicals

8.Produce hormones that help plants grow.

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