The pages of Compost, Vermicompost and Compost Tea list materials used and their sources, plus recipes for soil mixes. Gershuny defines the elements of compost quality and stability, tells where, when and how to use compost, and explains its disease-suppressing properties. There's a section on how to adjust C:N ratios, moisture and nutrient content and what materials to avoid. The volume covers current findings about compost tea and effective microorganisms (EM) as well as worm-powered composting and the biodynamic method.

Grace Gershuny is the author with Joe Smillie of The Soul of Soil (Chelsea Green) and is herself the author of Start with the Soil (Rodale Press). She developed NOFA's first organic certification program in 1977 and was a founding member of the Organic Trade Association. From 1994 - 99 she served on the staff of USDA's National Organic Program. Grace teaches about gardening and agriculture issues at the Institute for Social Ecology and at Sterling College, both in Vermont. She is now consulting for the organic industry and working on a book about the real meaning of organic. She still grows most of her own veggies at her homestead in Barnet, VT.

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