Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Nancy Babbitt <nbabbitt2003@adelphia.net>]

What does he use to heat the still???


On Jul 28, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Greg and April wrote:

> 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
> > --
> > Harvey in northern Va
> > www.themodernhomestead.us
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