Re: [biofuel] Re: Farmers Turn To Composting, Georgia, USA sulfur

2002-07-05 Thread Grahams
At 05:42 PM 7/4/2002 +, you wrote: Thinking back, I recall that for quite awhile we were trying something we'd read about to help keep the goats warm in Winter. The idea was to just keep putting down fresh bedding, not removing the old or the manure. This would compost and the heat would

[biofuel] Re: Farmers Turn To Composting, Georgia, USA sulfur

2002-07-04 Thread Keith Addison
Hi again Harmon --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Harmon I should mention too that the guy at MREA, whose been composting humanure for decades, said turning is a bad idea, it loses heat, and, for humanure you want as much heat as possible. He also

[biofuel] Re: Farmers Turn To Composting, Georgia, USA sulfur

2002-07-04 Thread harmonseaver
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perfectly safe, if you do it right. Entire populations have used the sanitizing effects of topsoil for this, and grown their crops on it, through many generations, without ill-effects, and still do. Hot-composting makes

Re: [biofuel] Re: Farmers Turn To Composting, Georgia, USA sulfur

2002-07-04 Thread Ken
nomadicism... - Original Message - From: harmonseaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 8:12 AM Subject: [biofuel] Re: Farmers Turn To Composting, Georgia, USA sulfur --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[biofuel] Re: Farmers Turn To Composting, Georgia, USA sulfur

2002-07-04 Thread harmonseaver
Thinking back, I recall that for quite awhile we were trying something we'd read about to help keep the goats warm in Winter. The idea was to just keep putting down fresh bedding, not removing the old or the manure. This would compost and the heat would be a great help for the animals, then

[biofuel] Re: Farmers Turn To Composting, Georgia, USA sulfur

2002-07-04 Thread Keith Addison
Harmon wrote: Thinking back, I recall that for quite awhile we were trying something we'd read about to help keep the goats warm in Winter. The idea was to just keep putting down fresh bedding, not removing the old or the manure. This would compost and the heat would be a great help for the

[biofuel] Re: Farmers Turn To Composting, Georgia, USA sulfur

2002-07-03 Thread harmonseaver
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], MH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Keith, Hi Hoagy Thanks for this, nice... Could be quicker, could be hotter too, only 120-130F. Still, that's okay, they're doing good. Makes you think, though, eh? - all that free heat going to waste. Wonder why they don't

[biofuel] Re: Farmers Turn To Composting, Georgia, USA sulfur

2002-07-03 Thread harmonseaver
I should mention too that the guy at MREA, whose been composting humanure for decades, said turning is a bad idea, it loses heat, and, for humanure you want as much heat as possible. He also said let it go a year, make the piles big (pallet size), and just build another pile when the first if

[biofuel] Re: Farmers Turn To Composting, Georgia, USA sulfur

2002-07-03 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Harmon I should mention too that the guy at MREA, whose been composting humanure for decades, said turning is a bad idea, it loses heat, and, for humanure you want as much heat as possible. He also said let it go a year, make the piles big (pallet size), and just build another pile when

[biofuel] Re: Farmers Turn To Composting, Georgia, USA sulfur

2002-07-03 Thread Keith Addison
Harmon wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], MH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Keith, Hi Hoagy Thanks for this, nice... Could be quicker, could be hotter too, only 120-130F. Still, that's okay, they're doing good. Makes you think, though, eh? - all that free heat going to waste.

[biofuel] Re: Farmers Turn To Composting, Georgia, USA sulfur

2002-07-03 Thread harmonseaver
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Harmon I should mention too that the guy at MREA, whose been composting humanure for decades, said turning is a bad idea, it loses heat, and, for humanure you want as much heat as possible. He also said let it go a