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[Heide Hermary <heidehermary@pacificcoast.net>]

One of the presenters at the recent IFOAM conference was relating how 
the application of EM bacteria completely eliminates the loss of 
nitrogen gas from manure piles. I haven't tried it yet. Should work the 
same in compost.
Heide

Jerome Osentowski wrote:

> Mark,  We use Rock dust and gypsum here in our sheet mulching and add to the
> forest garden from time to time.  I still don't see how you can keep all
> that ammonia from escaping from the pile with  an applaction of rock powder.
> I have used 6 inches of straw on top of the pile as a scrubber.  the
> straw helps to absorb the amonia.  The carbon soaks up the ammonia.
> We make lost of comfery tea, plus rabbit and chicken manure tea by the 30
> gal trash barrol . Our mulching system supplies our compost and worm casting
> tea in place.  As the rain or watter form our drip or the pond moves down
> through the mulch, it desolves the half inch of worm castings .  This tea
> drains down the into the soil through the worm holes.  It's all part of
> natures design.  Got you in the forest to see a carbon copy of this in
> action.   jerome
>
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>
> > From: Mark <mpludwig@facstaff.wisc.edu>
> > To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> > Subject: Re: [permaculture] SoilFoodWeb
> > Date: Mon, Oct 7, 2002, 9:28 AM
>
> > At 08:41 PM 10/5/02 -0600, you wrote:
> >
> > > Much of the fertility and many of the  bugs and microbs are killed during
> > > the compost process.
> > N loss can be minimized by adding rock P or gypsum, this binds the ammonia
> > and makes the P available.
> >
> >
> > Mark P. Ludwig
> > Poultry Research Lab
> > University of Wisconsin -Madison
> > 608-262-1730 WK
> > 608-846-7125 HM
> >
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