Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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Cheryl and Harvey:

It is very interesting. It appears that the larvae generate enough heat to 
keep such a system functioning even in the cool temps at 2400 meters. People 
who are not accustomed to living in a constantly cool climate have no real 
idea of how different it is :-)

Phil Bunch
Piedras Blancas/Medellin


---- Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us> wrote: 
> On 07/11/2010 04:07 PM, CHERYL WESOLOWSKI wrote:
> > Don't know if it legal but it is very effective, use a privy and feed 
> > the human waste to black soldier flies.
> >
> > http://www.esrint.com/pages/bioconversion.html
> 
> 
> Here's a link to a good introduction to this concept of cultivation of 
> BSF grubs for responsible management of organic "wastes," reclamation of 
> their residual fertility to feed the soil, and "harvesting" of the grubs 
> themselves as high-octane poultry, pig, or farmed fish food. I'm pushing 
> this one hard myself, as a way of generating more high quality protein 
> feed for my poultry. Check it out.
> 
> http://themodernhomestead.us/article/Black+Soldier+Fly.html
> 
> ~Harvey
> 
> -- 
> Harvey in northern Va
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> 
> My book, THE MODERN HOMESTEAD POULTRY FLOCK, will be published next year by 
> Chelsea Green Publishing.
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