Sterilize Compost? No — Pasteurize Instead for Safe, Living Soil
“Sterilize compost” is a dangerous misnomer—and attempting it undermines the very purpose of composting. True, functional compost is a vibrant, biodiverse ecosystem: a living matrix teeming with beneficial bacteria, actinomycetes, fungi, protozoa, nematodes, and arthropods. Sterilization—defined as the complete elimination…