Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Greg and April" <gregandapril@earthlink.net>]

I don't know, un-eaten food is crop waste ( at least to me ).

I know of one guy that goes around to all the bars in his area leaves tanks 
with them, and the bars dump all the left over beverages into the tanks. 
He later picks the liquid up and checks for alcohol content and sugar 
content.    If the alcohol content is high enough, he distils it, for fuel.

At least to me that is one way to utilize a type of crop waste.

Greg H.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harvey Ussery" <huboxwood@earthlink.net>
To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 6:29
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Wheat is the new oil


> Thanks for passing this on, Paul.
>
> A minor quibble with the author's thesis, tho not news to most on this 
> list:
>
> > A big question mark has to be put next to ethanol fuels, except those 
> > made
> > from crop wastes.
>
> It is *not* the case that biofuels from corn & grain are wasteful, but
> it's okay to produce them from "crop wastes." Going down that path means
> never returning "crop wastes" to agricultural soils, means the
> continuing loss of humus from soils, means continuing industrial
> agriculture as more mining operation than farming.
>
> ~Harvey
> --
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