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["Jerome Osentowski" <jerome@crmpi.org>]

Robin,  Ya, whatever ......     jerome
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Jerome Osentowski, Director
Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute
PO Box 631
Basalt, CO 81621   U.S.A.

Tel/fax (970) 927-4158    E mail: jerome@crmpi.org

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>From: <permed@nor.com.au>
>To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [permaculture] SoilFoodWeb
>Date: Fri, Oct 11, 2002, 5:36 AM
>

> Jerome Osentowski wrote
>>EM  stands for effective Microrganisms, and they do not work in  Hot
>>composts  They will fry along with about everything else.
>
> I have encountered this veiwpoint of hot composting "frying" everything
> before in UK pc publications (think it was 'Pc in a Nutshell') and don't
> understand what the problem is. Is it a pc myth from an ill-informed pc
> teacher in the early days that's been perpetuated?
>
> Hot composting is a natural process generated by beneficial
> microorganisms working at their optimum in an ideal carbon/ nitrogen
> environment. At these temperatures (60+deg C) plant pathogens are
> destroyed along with many weed seeds (a positive 'frying') and the
> beneficial organisms break down chemical residues, antibiotics etc. As a
> certified organic grower I can only use non-certified materials (plant
> and animal manures) if they've been through a hot composting process.
> Different organisms operate in different conditions and there are
> beneficial MO's specific to various temperature ranges. This blanket
> bagging of hot compost processes almost smacks of a kind of
> micro-organism apartheid...
> Robyn
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