Re: [compost_tea] Meanderings & Nomenclature

From: Robert Norsen <bnbrew_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:03:06 -0800 (PST)

Hi Kirk, I thought about NACT but that is a standard abreviation for another nutrient?
something and NCT like ACT would be a learned abreviation either way. Do't know that it is a big dea either way. Would ANCT be useful ? Bob
 
kirk Leonard <kirkleon_at_open.org> wrote:

Kick back Friday, looking at lots of ct posts and NOSB materials, waiting
for feedback on a comment, couple unrelated but relevant things occur to me,
so I'm meandering.

Someone in the digests today used the acronym NCT for non-aerated compost
tea, I think. Could we abbreviate that NACT? NCT is more like "not compost
tea" to me. NACT and ACT could be a good dynamic duo, like protozoa preps
for tea. Based on recent and past dialogues, there should be beneficial
combinations possible there.

And speaking of not compost tea, I think I found a great but totally subtle
flipping of USNOP attitudes about tea embedded in the CTTF report, in which
"Manure Extract" is defined - a true raw manure preparation - distinctly
separate from compost teas, which turns NOP's desire to define compost tea
as raw manure on it's head, as it well should be. Was this a breakthrough
or what? How's that for a sentence? Or sense?

I don't want to build this up too much but I'm gonna loose a comment to USDA
and NOSB on compost tea certification standards soon which I'll also post
here - it might be the only new comment you hear that USDA got, unless
others post. I hope we can bat it around, I hope both Steves will
participate - there may be more Steves here but I'm thinking of Diver and
Scheuerell, who recently signed on, and as I understand it was the principal
author of the CTTF report, which is a quality document, and I hope he'll
speak up too. I also hope I don't piss Diver off again.

Kirk









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