Life Underground Labs
A SoilFoodWeb Regeneration service. Join the underground revolution to maximize the life, health and resiliency of our soils!
You may not notice… but something quite magical for your soil and plants is happening above!
Soil + Compost Testing Services
Options for quick checks before you make any decisions, or a thorough assessment that gives you the numbers behind what’s in your soil or the compost you want to use.
Discount on quantities of 3 or more assessments
Quantitative Biological Assessment ($100)
Best for testing compost (or compost extract or tea) or soil if you want to know for certain that it has a sufficient quantity of key beneficial microbes that will result in maximum health and pest/disease resistance of what you want to grow.
Qualitative Biological Assessment ($50)
Good value for quick checks of soil, compost, or foliage to determine whether beneficial, facultative, or pathogenic life is present.
Compost coaching ($250/hour, half hour minimum)
- Thermophilic: hot+ fast – best for making the foundation of biologically complete (BioComplete™) compost
- Static piles: hot + slow – best for handling frequent kitchen or pathogenic/pet waste
- For vermicomposting or liquid ammendments coaching, please inquire
Contact Me
Susan Stuart, Certified Lab Tech, through the SoilFoodWeb program
212-810-0246
available to support busy Soil Food Web consultants
Maximize your land’s life
- Over-tilling, pesticide and fertilizer use (and drift), and more have degraded our soils. The UN reports that we only have a little over 50 years of arable top soil left on our farmlands.
- Don’t guess! Identify by looking, microscopically, at whether your soil or compost has beneficial life, pathogenic life, or not enough life
- A healthy soil food web reduces erosion, flooding, drought
Benefits and Uses
- Knowledge that can help you increase health of your plants, resistance to disease and pests, and overall yields
- Saved money on inputs
- For applications in farming, erosion control, and water filtration
