Yes Julia I saw Dr White’s class.
I think that introducing microbiology as you do is great (although we don’t have 
here anymore lol) but what I also notice is that in a preserved natural environment like here it brings nothing visible in terms of results. The dead leaves of the nearby forest arrive with the wind, the hay for the mulching of the natural meadow, the animals pass to make their droppings…etc the bacteria and fungi still circulate freely. And if we grow healthy without tillage as we do this capital is not damaged.
On the other hand in a dead soil, with plots in intensive agriculture next door, a violent tillage…etc I think it is an indispensable means to support microbiology
Adaptive Seeds has a deal today that looks like diverse microorganisms and diverse seeds from their description:
> May include one or more seeds for any of our over 600 varieties! Packet includes seeds, pine needles, dog and/or cat hair, and general floor dirt. May include dead flies and small rocks.
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$4.01 for one gram of floor sweepings^^… And they don’t seem to be joking!
I am amazed someone can think of selling that… And then doing it!
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There are so many replies that I didn’t read them through so I don’t know if this has come up. I have no experience with vermicompost, but I do have experience of worms getting into pots when I use bokashi that have had worms sneak in. Worms need food and in closed system there is a danger that they eat roots of the seedling if there is nothing else to eat. I have had this happen to me. Often seedling that has been struggling has had a worm inside the pot. How big of a problem this is depends on plants and for how long they are going to be in it, but at least something to consider.
I just realized today is April 1st 
. Outside the U.S. that might not mean anything.
Maybe that’s why the price is 4.01!
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Haha ;-). Yes we are the 1st of april! And that means something in here too 
funny
I laughed a lot because I started my salad grex like that after an evening of bagging lettuce seeds in our association. I swept the table put in a bag and sown in my garden so more than 60 varieties that would end up in the trash… 
Went for a little walk. Collected soil samples from healthy spécimens of wild apple, Lila, oak, wild cherry, and black locust.
Hosed pond water into the barrel and pump air through the device. Added soil and mélasses and i’ll sée in 24 hrs, maybe a bit longer because of cold it should be ready. 48 hors for mycelia, 72 for flagellates.
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without knowing their industrial secret, the laboratories we work with can deliver the bio-amplified liquid several weeks after sending soil samples. I do not know if it is their multiplication technique that takes time, their commercial delay, or the delay of laboratory studies to extract the right strains.
So give time to your bacteria because as you say it is still cold, a liquid at 20°C would probably be faster
I’ve learned much of these series. I think to focus as well on all succesfull trees and plants that grow in and around people’s gardens locally and multiply their microbiome in the aerated compost tea device.