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  • From: "mamica5" <mamica5 AT sssnet.com>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] ecoli
  • Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 10:10:50 -0500

Just to clarify a little, are we talking 210 days for E. Coli after it
leaves the digestive tract of mammals? I do not knowingly use manure less
than a year old. However, our bottomland vegetable production is in a flood
plain subject to winter and early spring flooding. It seems that you are
suggesting that growing there might not be safe.

Nevertheless..it is amazing that he human race is still around considering
all the varmints wandering through our vegetable patches.


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[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Michael
Meredith
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 8:50 AM
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Subject: [Market-farming] ecoli



S, then, composting gets rid of the ecoli, which is perhaps a better proces
to use anyway( ups soil microbes)?
Michael


Message: 6
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 21:11:47 EST
From: KAKerby AT aol.com
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] ecoli
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
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Just to be clear, we're not talking about compost.  We're talking  about
direct manure application to the land, and/or rotating animals on/off of 
crop
growing grounds, and/or having irrigation water moving from livestock areas
to growing areas.  Compost treatment protocols have NOT changed.
Kathryn Kerby
Frog Chorus Farm
Snohomish, WA


In a message dated 3/2/2010 5:49:21 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, 
meredith848 AT yahoo.com writes:

I have  always been led to believe that proper composting, with the high
temperatures  involved, will eliminate virtually all pathogens ( then , just

bury the stuff,  so it is not on the surface, just to be  sure...).
Michael
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