Re: [compost_tea] Re: keeping brew at 70 F

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 17:50:40 EDT

Can you cool the tea by placing the machine in the shade, or using
evaporation to cool?

We have been working with Leon Hussey about reducing the tea brew time. It
might be possible to brew for only 12 hours in the warm summer months.

Higher temperatures mean the organisms grow faster, so the tea might be ready
sooner. Then you could brew through the night time, cooler temperatures.

Reduce foods going into the tea when it is hot out too. You need to monitor
oxygen use in the tea brewer and let everyone know what happens when the
temperatures get warmer.

The little microscope is still in process of being worked out. Intensity of
light is still a problem. Art said that he something he thinks will work, so
stay tuned. Still working on it!

Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com
SFI Oregon, USA
SFI Australia
SFI New York
SFI Europe
SFI New Zealand

"Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well,
but the conviction that what we are doing makes sense, no matter how things
turn out." -- Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic





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