Re: [compost_tea] Terra Cycle
To sum up your question, what is Terra Cycle good for?
Remember the rule; "What is it good for? What ever you
can sell it for."
Compost tea must develop a product with shelf life
that ships in any weather condition. I know everyone
thinks about that problem everyday.
--- soilfoodweb_at_aol.com wrote:
> Terra Cycle products are good nutrients, but no
> biology worth talking about.
> We all know, and have known for awhile, that
> organic sources of nutrients
> are less detrimental than inorganic salts.
>
> But it is good to get out information to the rest of
> the country with the
> enormous marketing budget these folks have.
>
> I like the waste reduction idea they are
> emphasizing. Recycling waste
> material by having worms deal with them, and using
> used plastic bottles to bottle
> the leachate from the worm compost. Cool!
>
> But, no biology testing shown on the website. In
> the materials we've had
> come in from clients, there isn't any biology in the
> liquid.
>
> Which is probably what Terra Cycle wanted; less
> trouble from regulatory
> agencies.
>
> Could Terra Cycle be used as food in a compost tea
> brewer? Maybe.
>
> When anyone uses it that way, could you do some
> testing and let us all know
> what the brown liquid does to the organisms in the
> tea? I'd expect bacterial
> growth to be enhanced, possibly fungal. But, data
> required.
>
> Or, why not ask the manufacturers to do that
> experimentation and post it on
> their web site?
>
> Elaine R. Ingham
> Soil Foodweb Inc., Corvallis, Oregon
> Soil Foodweb Inc., Port Jefferson, New York
> Soil Foodweb Institute, Lismore Australia
> Soil Foodweb Institute Cambridge, New Zealand
> Laboratorios de Soil Foodweb, Culiacan, Mexico
> Soil Foodweb Inc., Jerome, Idaho
> Soil Foodweb Inc., South Africa
>
>
=====
Butch Ragland
Conflict is as addictive as
cocaine, alcohol, cigarettes,etc
I'm sorry to report that
cooperation is not
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