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["Cochran, Jason" <jcochran@pa.peacecorps.gov>]

Hello all:
Volunteers working in our projects down here in Panama are reporting the
presence of army worms (translation from spanish) that are eating everything
up and may be keeping the inactive-composting side from really getting hot.
Has anyone had similar experiences?  The worms are small and grey and are
quite abundant.
Thanks for your help!
Jason Cochran

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Today's Topics:

   1. Brewing Compost Tea (Forest Garden)
   2. Fw: [greenaction] Spain Mandates Solar on New Homes
      (Victoria Clarke)
   3. Re: Horinca/palinca (dtv@mwt.net)


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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:15:19 -0600
From: "Forest Garden" <forestgarden@austin.rr.com>
Subject: [permaculture] Brewing Compost Tea
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Brewing Compost Tea at Home.
7-9 pm, November 12, 2004
Red Rock Elementary School - 2401 FM 20  about 35 miles SE of Austin, TX
(there is a playscape outside and my kids will love to play with yours)
Sponsored by the Texas Organic Farmers and Growers Assoc.

Come spend an evening learning how to brew your own compost tea - its easy
and fun!.  The simplest method only requires a 5 gallon bucket and a bit of
attention.  Learn about the different techniques, the ingredients, and the
process for making the 'juice' your plants will love.  Learn how to tell
when the brew is going well, and when it is not.  And, most importantly,
learn about the bacteria and fungi that create the incredible benefits of
compost tea.

Gary Freeborg is the speaker.  He is a land restoration consultant and
permaculture designer  He regularly teaches classes on sustainability, land
management, biodiversity, and eco-agriculture.  Gary began his career in
1982 working for Lowery nursery, which is Texas oldest native plant nursery.
>From there he spent 6 years at an 1800 acre nature preserve involved with
all aspects of native plants and animals, habitat restoration, organic
gardening and environmental interpretation.  He then moved to Austin TX,
where he and two brothers acquired land and began exploring organic and
Biodynamic agriculture, growing native trees, produce and mushrooms.  An
intensive Permaculture course with Bill Mollison in '95 began a process of
bringing a wide range of disciplines together with the goal of healing the
land by jump-starting natures own cycles.  His company BioDiversity offers
large and small landowners a wide variety of revolutionary strategies to
bring vibrant health back to the land, and increase the biodiversity in
soil, plant and animal communities through consulting, education and
research.  Gary has brewed thousands of gallons of compost tea and regularly
uses teas in his land restoration projects.

If you can, bring a bucket of your best compost to share with others.  We
will have a compost swap after the class.

This event is free of charge.  Call Marjory Glowka at 512 442 7037 for more
info.





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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:55:41 -0800
From: "Victoria Clarke" <v.clarke@mindspring.com>
Subject: [permaculture] Fw: [greenaction] Spain Mandates Solar on New
        Homes
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 03:05:18 US/Central
From: dtv@mwt.net
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Horinca/palinca
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org, nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Message-ID: <200411110905.iAB95IEs010225@westbyserver.mwt.net>

For the sake of accuracy rather than argumentation, slivovitz (or slibowitz)
is a synonym
for tzuica 
which is the first distillation of the plums, & is slightly cloudy & is
lower alcohol
content than palinca/
horinca.  Palinca/horinca is the redistillation of tzuica/slivovitz.  Here
in Romania
there is a saying 
about how the weather when it is sleeting is like slivovitz falling from the
sky.

Sloe gin is made from Blackthorn plum (prunus spinosa) tho it could
potentially have any
number of 
other plums added to it.

For horinca/palinca everyone uses grafted plums (regional cultivars of
prunus domestica)
grafted on 
Myrobalan plum.

mIEKAL


On Nov 10, 2004, at 1:47 AM, David Neeley wrote:

>FYI, palinca is better known in the West as slivovitz, which is sold
>in package stores throughout the U.S. It is also the national drink of
>Croatia, among others.

>Sloe gin is also flavored with the same type plums used for slivovitz,
>by the way.

>David


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