[Market-farming] manures/GAP training

KAKerby at aol.com KAKerby at aol.com
Wed Mar 3 20:55:31 EST 2010


When I first saw those questions I thought holy moly!  But yes, I did  
offer to send in questions to the microbiologists who hosted the class.   I'll 
follow through with that offer and see what they say.  They may be  able to 
shed some light on some of these issues and perhaps initiate some  studies in 
those areas which are insufficiently covered.  I just had a  moment of "too 
much data!".  
 
And yes, it is a huge topic.  But I just read through your other  response 
after reading the whole paper.  Thanks for your careful  analysis.  You 
brought up some excellent points that I may also pass along  to the 
microbiologists.  Perhaps this will stimulate exactly the types of  research we'd like 
to see happen.
 
Each time I think I have a good handle on what's going on in the soil,  
something comes along to teach me that I really know very little.  Probably  a 
healthy thing.  :)
Kathryn Kerby
Frog Chorus Farm
Snohomish, WA
 
 
In a message dated 3/3/2010 5:49:48 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
organic87 at frontiernet.net writes:



On Mar 3, 2010, at 5:04 PM, _KAKerby at aol.com_ (mailto:KAKerby at aol.com)  
wrote:



I'm sorry, folks, but I'm getting really overwhelmed with all  this.  I 
started this thread because I just took the class and was  concerned about what 
I learned.  I was curious if other folks had  gone through the GAP training 
and if so, whether they were going to change  their practices because of 
them.  Now I'm fielding all sorts of  questions about why this paper?  Why 
those testing protocols? Why  didn't the researchers do this and that, and did 
they know about such and  such, and so on.  I have no idea.  




Sorry! I didn't reply with that list of questions because I  expected you 
to be able to answer them, but because I thought you had asked  what 
questions we thought important. Apologies if I gave the impression of  expecting you 
to come up with the answers.


It is a really complicated subject; that's part of the reason that hard  
and fast answers about what to do -- or sometimes, even about how to design  
the studies -- aren't easy to come by.









 
-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale






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