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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 BioChar, AgriChar, compost tea brewers and associated equipment such as side-channel ring blowers, air pumps, oxygen meters, vibrating screens, air diffusers, soil microbial inoculants and microbial nutrients.  

Our services and products enables clients to break away from the win-lose focus of destructive and exploitive industrialized farming that promotes a continued reliance on the application of chemical inputs.

Compost Tea Brewers

O'Grady Rural is the home of SmartBugs and DownUnder compost tea brewers.   Brewers range in size from the 80 Litre SmartBug compost tea brewer that is ideal for 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.

AgriChar & BioChar

AgriChar and BioChar are new products based on exciting new research that is rapidly emerging from the recent studies 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 charcoal and organic waste they mastered their enviroment.

 

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