Re: [compost_tea] Terra Cycle

From: butch ragland <wilddog_202_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 09:12:43 -0800 (PST)
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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