[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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