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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

A friend bought an old dairy farm and it had one of those underground 
holding tanks for when they washed down the barns.  She uses that to make 
her "tea" and has old water truck that she got from the local fairgrounds 
that they used on the race track and used it to spray the fields.  Works 
great!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <eureka AT hctc.net>


> Has anyone on the list experimented with large scale
> compost tea application? Our friend who raises grass fed
> longhorns here made a giant compost tea brewing station in
> one of his barns and applies the stuff to all his pastures
> over a couple thousand acres with amazing results. An
> organic garden center in Austin that produces and sells it
> for consumer use  recently told me it would be easy enough
> to set up my own. I know this is about adding microbes to
> the soil, but it seems to me that it would go hand in hand
> with enhancing soil fertility and could be accomplished
> very cheaply for any size of property. I plan to create a
> set up soon.