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Originally Posted by maikeru View Post
there are oils on top of the brew, and I imagine there still must be some, and many other chemicals, present in the spent grounds. Also, soymilk has quite a lot of plant oils. I wonder if these might be absorbed by the terra preta as decomposition takes place. Perhaps in agricultural settings waste vegetable or plant "juice," if rich in oils, could be used as a "bio-oil inoculant" for the terra preta?
Hard to know withjout some proper research trials
But to give an "educated guess" bio-oils/resins seem to be very important to the development of Terra preta soil micro fungi and bacteria.
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