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  • From: Liz Pike <pike AT always-online.com>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Manure usage on certified organic farms (fwd)
  • Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 19:54:00 -0500





DON'T BE AFRAID TO USE COMPOST!!! Dennis Avery would love this--for
any farmer--no matter what the method!! So whether organic,
conventional, sustainable, etc--we'd all have to "buy" our fertility
instead of using what we have. Here's a post I made on another forum
on compost tea. The same can be said for compost--keep it aerobic and
those pathogens don't stand a chance!!

>Okay, guys. I'm passing goose with a few feathers to shed
>on this topic. Robert's compost tea culture takes
> Max's recipe a step further. When this tea is warmed & aerated you
> not only make a food for the soil & plants, you create a compound
>that can also control plant diseases when applied as a foliar spray.
>Compost tea in & of itself is a "good thing", but these procedures
>extract & increase vastly the microbes & humic acids of the compost
>to maximize the tea's usefulness. It must be aerated & warmed to 65*-90*,
>for approximately 18-24 hours to encourage growth, then used within
> 24 hours or the aerobic microbes begin to die off & the anaerobes
>reproduce. The heat & oxygen stimulates the aerobic microbes to multiply
>rapidly. Without
>the heat and oxygen the pathogens multiply. With this "living" culture, it
>is quite perishable,
> thus the need to use it promptly, within 12 hours. If it "stinks", there's
> been an increase
>in anaerobes which can result in unwanted pathogens. It should smell like
>good finished compost.
>dark brown, sweet, earthy.

Liz Pike
Morningstar Gardens
Pollocksville NC




  • Re: Manure usage on certified organic farms (fwd), Liz Pike, 03/11/2000

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