The following is from the Regeneration International website.
Healthy soil is teaming with life in the form of billions of microscopic soil organisms. A teaspoon of healthy soil can contain more soil microorganisms than there are people on earth. The soil microorganisms found in healthy, or “living soil,” have important functions including converting nutrients for plants, building soil structure, improving how soil absorbs water, and allowing soil to draw down and sequester more carbon.
Unfortunately not all soil is alive and healthy. According to the United Nations (UN), a third of the earth’s soils are severely degraded. Soils that have been degraded by degenerative forms of agriculture may have lost the living organisms that allow soil to perform the functions necessary for the health of plants and the environment.
Dr. David C. Johnson, molecular biologist and research scientist at the University of New Mexico, has developed a system that brings lifeless soils back to life by reintroducing beneficial microorganisms to the soil with biologically enhanced compost.
The Johnson-Su composting method creates compost teeming with microorganisms that improve soil health and plant growth and increase the soil's potential to sequester carbon. This simple composting method produces a biologically enhanced compost by creating an environment where beneficial soil microorganisms and thrive and multiply. When this biologically alive compost is applied to the soil the microorganisms inoculate the soil and work in harmony with growing plants to improve soil health and increase the amount of carbon drawn out of the atmosphere and into the soil.
Benefits of Johnson-Su Bioreactor Compost:
Increases soil carbon sequestration
Increases crop yield
Increases soil nutrient availability
Increases soil water-retention capacity
Produces biologically diverse compost
Produces nutrient–rich compost
Results in a low-salinity compost
Improves seed germination and growth rates
Benefits of Johnson-Su Bioreactor Composting System:
Reduces water usage up to six times
Reduces composting labor time by 66 percent
Requires no turning and little manpower
Is a low–tech process that can easily be replicated
Can be made using a diversity of compost materials
Produces no odors or associated insects
Materials generally cost less than $35 USD and can be used for up to 10 times
No leaching or groundwater contamination
Get the instructions here.