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  • From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Cold composting with aeration channels.
  • Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 16:24:43 -0400

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Linda Kruhmin <lindakruhmin@gmail.com>
wrote:

> We use spent mash from a local micro-brewery on our urban farm. We layer
> it in our 4'x4'x4' wooden pallet bins with straw, about 1 part mash to 3 or
> 4 parts oat straw (2" of mash to 6 to 8" of straw [or dried leaves from the
> fall]). It gets turned 2 or 3 times within a 3 month period and it is
> ready. Using less straw/leaves leaves a pretty smelly mix. We try to add
> compost tea periodically.
>

Tht's a great solution. I have forwarded this to the original poster.
What kind of compost tea did you use and how did you make it?

LL


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