Re: [compost_tea] Terra Cycle

From: Robert Norsen <bnbrew_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 11:19:29 -0800 (PST)

No, Butch - don't spend the oil shipping water and microbes all over - Ship one small brewer to each of those people who need ACT, let them use their kitchen waste and yard waste in a compost pile. Use the compost and the brewer to make ACT and use it in their own and the neighbors yard. Builds friendly neighbor hoods.
 
This takes the place of running on a tread mill to use up the food they over eat, uses the time now wasted on TV and PC, grows vegies that have some food value and delivers them with minimal processing and less oil, fewer traffic jams. Bob

butch ragland <wilddog_202_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

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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