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Welcome to O'Grady Rural the home of SmartBugs DownUnder !

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O’Grady Rural focuses on rebuilding an abundance of soil organic carbon by encouraging and nurturing farmers to form more diverse partnerships with Nature to create a healthier and more sustainable farming system and hopefully making the World a little better.

Explore our web pages and discover how this can be achieved by integrating biological and/or conventional methods into softer alternatives resulting in a regenerative and sustainable relationship with the land by developing an attitude of making a living with the land rather than making a living from the land.

O'Grady Rural manufacture and import specialised products including Moso BioChar, PandaChar, PandA (pyroligneous acid), compost tea brewers and associated equipment such as side-channel ring blowers, air pumps, vibrating screens, air diffusers, LivingSoil (microbial inoculant) and microbial nutrients.  

Moso BioChar

Moso BioChar is imported finely ground bamboo charcoal. The Australian availability of Moso Biochar enables research and development of new innovative products containing biochar to be proven under  field conditions.  Our enthusiasm and interest in Moso BioChar is well founded and is based on research and the applications of biochars in Asia, and the more recent studies and longer term observations of the terra preta do indio, the Amazon's dark earths.  These man made soils thousands of years old and created by the original inhabitants of the Amazon continue to be fertile and productive today.  This ancient wisdom enabled them to turn the "worlds worst soil into the worlds best"  by the mixing of biochar and organic waste they mastered their environment.


Compost Tea Brewers

O'Grady Rural is the home of SmartBugs and DownUnder compost tea brewers.   Brewers range in size from the 200 Litre SmartBug compost tea brewer that is popular with  bowling greens and golf course superintendents and the serious home gardener, who is keen to enjoy the benefits of those proven plant tonics such as liquid manures and compost teas. 

The 200 litre and 1000 Litre SmartBug compost tea brewers are a popular choice for small crop farmers and orchardists, while the larger 3250 Litre and 5000 Litre DownUnder compost tea brewers are in use on larger plantations, vineyards and broadacre cropping properties in all mainland states of Australia.  Our compost tea brewers have a well earned reputation for simplicity, easy cleaning, durability, and value for money.

SmartBug and DownUnder compost tea brewers are fitted with the highly efficient, gentle-acting  rubber aeration membranes for efficient oxygen diffusion into the compost tea. The small bubbles generated by this specially designed rubber membrane creates a massive surface area of tinny bubbles, that ensures high aerobic conditions essential for the rapid growth of beneficial microbes and the humification of organic matter.


 

  "When we live in our memories we recreate history. When we live in our imaginations, we create the future" Scott 2000

 
 
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