Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Kathy Moore" <anichinimoore@hotmail.com>]

Tom,
Thank you for this information/post.  I thought it was pretty sadly funny 
and I wished I lived next door; I'd be there everyday!  Most of the factory 
guys don't even take the manure to the landfill.  Instead they pile it high 
near the rivers.  Our landfill is near the river.  Insane to me,but, they 
wouldn't take kindly to my dislike of their customs and beliefs.

Hence, I have tried to devise a way to collaborate to take manure out of the 
water supply and "show them the money" instead.  Started an OK Composting 
Council with the help of a friend, an environmental engineer in Virginia.

I've also been trying to learn as much as I can to further advance these 
concepts, and, eager to learn more.  Went to the University of Maine's 
Composting School for a week and to the Carolinas for training about 3 years 
ago.

BioCycle has been my partner supplying me with magazines to further 
demonstrate the benefits of composting for economic development.  I'm also a 
member of the USCC and find their free list serve a great help to my 
learning curve.  Been going to meetings and speaking with legislators with 
the hope of educating them about alternatives for manure that don't involve 
lawsuits.  Still learning and love this list particularily for my own farm 
which is organic or natural.  The word "organic" has now been legalized by 
USDA unfortunately.
Thank you again,
Kathy Moore




From: mtncats@planetcomm.net
Reply-To: mtncats@planetcomm.net,Healthy soil and sustainable growing 
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To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" 
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Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Fertilizer use by crop in Brazil
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:53:43 -0400


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
>


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