Extracts & Slurries - Compost Tea | Nicole Masters | RegenerateLA Training Series 1 | Part 21

In this video, Nicole Masters presents information on extracts and slurries, like compost tea, and how they can be applied to soil systems.
The RegenerateLA Training is designed to provide City staff, land managers, and soil health advocates with information on 1) how to build and maintain soil health, 2) how to compost and why composting organic waste is an important way to promote climate resilience, and 3) using native plants to promote ecological resilience. In Series 1, Nicole Masters covers how to assess soil health, why soil health is important, and how regenerative land management can reduce inputs and costs and increase resilience.

[@KimClark-1]

Yucca as a sticker- didn’t know that. Thank you. Thanks for taking the time to explain the three product differences. Always learn something good from Nicole!

[@MrMichaelStangl]

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[@donlourie769]

Are you making the third one? The slurry? Do you run it through a screen before it goes into the spray tank? What is your experience with how long the extract/slurry stays viable.

[@MrMichaelStangl]

@@donlourie769 I start with a slur into an extract using a spaghetti strainer straight into my tank to be sprayed on grass n more, for ag I put it through 400 microns for ease of flow, I have gone a week, with foods bacteria populations will increase, I hadn’t looked at it under the microscope to see what really happens, I can expect spores to become active, and everything else having fun.

[@cosmiclatte7282]

Hi, European here, I don't understand the term 'slurry'... do you mean a brew fermented in an anaerobic conditions with the mineral ammendment?

[@riccardogalie5045]

How do you add Yucca in a liquid form

[@barryyoung1711]

What kind of machine keeps the slurry in suspension and spreads it on a field other than a hog or beef pit tank?

[@ziggyd3114]

☝️ good question

[@davepennington3573]

Hydroseeder (also called a hydromulcher) Bowie makes the best one, you want a pump with the least amount of violence to preserve the microbial and mycelial life.

[@billiebruv]

So the extract doesn't have microbiology, odd

[@greighenning9091]

Yes it does, that’s the point of making it. The slurry is similar to the but has minerals added to the solution and kept in aerated state. I think by using constant aeration at this point will stimulate bacteria and may affect the F:B ratio the wrong way.

[@billiebruv]

@@greighenning9091 she didn't mention bilogy, they wouldn't survive more than a few hours anyhow I've yet venture into bubbling teas yet meself