Hey Keith; >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Keith Addison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Thanks very much Chip. Those are good. > >Compost 'tea' distillery, though? No need for a distillery. Take a >5-gallon pail, add 2 double handfuls of worm casts or finely sifted >compost (aerobic, thermophilic compost, ie it got hot), a bottle cap >of liquid seaweed emulsion and a tablespoonful of molasses to give >the bugs something to eat, plus a little less than 4 gallons of water >(preferably rainwater if the local tap water is chlorinated), stir it >up with a paint-stirrer in a drill, then use a fishtank aerator pump >with a bubblestone on the end to keep it aerated. Leave for at least >24 hours, stirring occasionally with a stick. Filter through an old >pair of pantyhose and use.
Neat. yeah, She did do a cursory explanation of what they were doing there with all that muck, but I didn't follow it, was paying attention to the soil warming system at the time, I just snapped a few pics. >There are some folks (like Elaine Ingham for one) who've figured out >a response to the difficult problem that it's hard to make any money >out of organic growers because they don't need anything, and >overcomplicated compost tea brewers accompanied by overspecialised >lab tests is one such response. Lol! Yeah, true enough. This farm is a lab. They are doing a lot of stuff that looks completely counter intuitive to me. But they are also growing a lot of food and feeding a lot of people. This farm belongs to a university, and it stocks their kitchens, as well as acts as a faculty CSA. The way they are handling their mountains of compost goes against everything I've read, in that ALL of the kitchen waste, and I mean ALL of it goes in there. Scares the willies out of me. However, it's their farm, not mine. And I like these folks a lot, and they are wonderful neighbors. It's all a grand experiment. Personally, I think they'd do well to read more Howard and Price; But it's most certainly not my call. They are a school, and schools are, well, schools. :) And I'll be well pleased if I can come close to feeding as many people in my life, as they do in a year. >All best And you, --chipper _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
