Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[mtncats@planetcomm.net]

Kathy, I'm sure you're on to something.  May not be particularly efficient 
use of a basic resource, just more expedient.  The following was recently 
posted on another list:

"I spent the weekend before last moving horse manure - about 19 tons or so.  
My Satoh Bull 630D keeps piling it into a rented hydraulic dump trailer and I 
keep hauling it to the dump.  This weekend is more of the same, probably more 
than 20 tons to go.  I feed them one ton and two tons comes out the other 
end!"

No idea what his "dump" does with it.  Would be much better for all if he had 
a use.  I suggested that here, also horse country, he'd have no problem 
giving it away.  He's exactly the sort of horse owner I love to find.  40 
tons?  Great!  When do I come?

Then I offer it to anyone interested.  Pickup load or 5 gal buckets- doesn't 
matter, just so somebody's making better soil with it.  And take a look while 
they're here to see my lazy-man's composting method and product.

This guy's got a rented trailer, paying dump fees, and burning a lot of fuel 
to no productive end.

Tom (in central Va)

On 4/28/06 at 8:19 AM Kathy Moore wrote in part:


>I don't think corporate farming is going away and it would seem methane
>extraction, etc. could be  a collaborative method of reducing the negative
>effects of the manure mountains while promoting composting after methane
>extraction.  I saw this in Tillamook, Oregon with multiple dairy farmers
>and
>it cleaned up several rivers and the bay.  If I'm missing something,
>please
>steer me in another direction.
>Thanks,
>Kathy Moore
>