[compost_tea] Re: Compost Testing?

From: compost160 <compost160_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 17:53:21 -0000
I never said no testing! I said test the compost for fertility and be
done with it. Nor should you test every batch of tea, redundant! If
it's in the compost it will be in the tea, right?
What one can afford to spend is very get real relevant to ones income.
Testing tea is not my primary source of income so I can see why you
might get riled when someone sugest other means and lab options. My
stock will not rise or fall one way or another. You are doing great
work to help the movement back to organic agriculture. Rodale's
organic  approach has probably done the most to help in the cause. Far
less controversial and confrontational in their approach. Oh well just
a home gardeners point of view.

--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, soilfoodweb@a... wrote:
> No one has suggested that that anyone, rich or poor, should test
themselves into bankruptcy. 
>
> Your response that it all depends on income is just nonsense. 
>
> Over and over again on this list, many of us have suggested useful
testing methods that people strapped for money can do, that will not
cost anything. 
>
> A few well-thought-out samples, sent in to assess the appropriate
factors, can guide people away from spending thousands of dollars on
un-necessary toxic chemicals. 
>
> Or do you advocate that people go through life without determining
why anything works, just because it might cost a few dollars to do the
testing? 
>
> If you like flying in the dark, doing trial and error without any
idea of why something does or does not work, then proceed to live
without the benefit of doing any testing. 
>
> For those of us who like to know why things work the way they do,
testing is necessary.  We can determine clearly what the next step
needs to be, based on the results from appropriate tests. 
>
> Enough of the snide comments and undermining of the science-based
approach.  Adequate testing is required.  NO ONE has suggested testing
just to spend money.  Get real. 
>
> Elaine Ingham
> President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
> SFI Corvallis, OR
> SFI Port Jefferson, NY
> SFI Lismore, NSW, Australia
> SFI Hilversum, The Netherlands
> SFI Cambridge, New Zealand
> SFI Culiacan, Mexico
> SFI Jerome, Idaho
> http://www.soilfoodweb.com



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