> > Bovinely, > > Woody [PS-for all the folderol about plant-based vs. animal-based compost > material, no one has mentioned the obvious: that the cow manure IS plant > material, run through the most awesome digestive system in the known > universe.] Too obvious, even, eh? Sam Ogden once wrote that a vegetative compost has everything in it that manure does, plus what the animal didn't take out of it....I think we all know that cows eat plants, plus a few microarthropods and yer occasional cow parasite.... Someone writing within the biodynamic paradigm who nevertheless distinguishes between composts made from cow manure and those made directly from plants, is Heinz Grotzke: http://www.acresusa.com/books/closeup.asp?prodid=130&catid=14&pcid=2 And, like Coleman and Steve Moore who Allan mentioned earlier in this thread, Grotzke recommends veganic compost in the greenhouse, where he suggests a manure based compost can cause problems. Woody, have some compassion on your land poor, cow deprived urban and suburban brethren, eh? If biodynamics is ever going to be mainstreamed, it will have to address the situations in which the family cow is just not a possibility. So what do you suggest? Frank Teuton---noting that to err is human, to moo, bovine.....:-)
