Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Compost is appropriate of course. And I'm free to state my view on ethanol
too. It's an insanely inefficient use of farmland, no matter what happens
to its byproducts.  And it's being promoted by all sorts of front groups on
the Internet in the pay of ADM and the corn lobbies. If ALL the corn grown
in the USA went to ethanol it would only supply 10% of the country's fuel
needs. Those who insist on ignoring the hard facts will be suspect. I am
the listowner. 

"the potential of Biogas to replace petroleum" is off topic. Our topic is
Living On The Land, not Making fuel on the land.  Don't tempt me. 

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all
our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to
foster its renewal is our only hope.
   - Wendell Berry 

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On 7/4/2006 at 11:25 AM Zachary Domikez wrote:

>Biogas produces good methane, plus excellent compost. 
>I think it is appropriate for this list because the
>remainder is a good soil builder.
>
>see: 
>http://www.wisconsinpublicservice.com/farm/gasrecovery.asp
>and:
>http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16613
>
>In the ethanol debate, I was waiting for information
>to show up on the potential of Biogas to replace
>petroleum.  I imagine that the ethanol ingredient
>materials can be fed to animals, and the biogas
>collected from their manure plus the harvest wastes.
>
>This also prevents greenhouse gases from escaping
>(assuming the animals are potty-trained . . . )
>
>The ethanol debate has provoked some interesting
>comments about the political lobby of fat-cats who can
>capitalize and centralize the materials; so perhaps it
>is good news that the two www pages listed above show
>a large scale, and a smale scale, application of
>Biogas that would appeal to the present politicians as
>well as participants in Living On the Land.
>
>Sincerely,
>Zachary
>