Re: [compost_tea] Re:Re: Searching for basic instructions on compost tea brewing

From: butch ragland <wilddog_202_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:11:13 -0800 (PST)
Kirk tell me about what you believe in, I have enough
doubts of my own.

Don't know about chicken manure everywhere but Tyson
treats their houses here with large quanities of salt.

--- Kirk Leonard <kirkleon_at_open.org> wrote:

> Couple years ago I took issue with Dr Brinton on his
> characterization of ACT
> and his lack of response to this list serve.  I
> still do.  Tom's email today
> is excellent news that the good doctor, inventor of
> the solvita test, is
> still tuned in to compost tea, though somewhat
> archaically.  He's also
> advertised in the latest Tilth journal for testing
> compost teas, any stripe,
> apparently.
>
> It's not clear from the report summary when the
> compost tea was foliar or
> soil applied, but I'm glad to see "cattle compost"
> as a source worked in
> every instance, and even chicken manure was ok,
> apparently tested
> separately.  Why has Dr Brinton not pushed back on
> USNOP's insistence that
> all compost teas are raw manure?
>
> What does he have to offer up for a good real time
> test of home garden or
> farm-made teas, steeped, stirred or aerated?
>
> And Steve Bridges, where is that report on the Texas
> tea-off?  I hear it's
> good.
>
> Kirk
>
> > Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:58:20 -0000
> > From: "tomjasz" <tom_at_livesoil.com>
> > Subject: Re: Searching for basic instructions on
> compost tea brewing
>
> [snip]
>
> > "Compost extract preparation: Cattle compost from
> Greenleaf (Olds,
> > AB) and chicken manure compost from a poultry farm
> in Armstrong, BC
> > was  used for the extractions (see analysis in
> Results section).
> > Both composts were actively turned for the first
> month  and  then
> > only  once  a  month  for  the  next  3  months,
> then  cured  for
> > another  6  months.    A  method  of compost
> extraction  proposed
> > by  researchers  at  the  Wood's  Hole  Laboratory
>  was  used
> > (Brinton,  1995).
>
> [big snip]
>
>


=====
Butch Ragland
Conflict is as addictive as
cocaine, alcohol, cigarettes,etc
I'm sorry to report that
cooperation is not


           
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today!
http://my.yahoo.com



Yahoo! Groups Sponsor
ADVERTISEMENT
click here


Yahoo! Groups Links

Received on Thu Nov 18 2004 - 20:28:23 EST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Tue Feb 07 2012 - 14:15:36 EST