Re: [compost_tea] Re: added more food to long bew time lost booming population of flag

From: Lee Jolliffe <profleejolliffe_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:00:51 -0500

Evan, what are some of the foods you are adding? (I am only working in a 5
gallon bucket, but still would love to add good things to the brew.)

Lee
(35-year amateur fills-two-freezers&shares-a-lot gardener)

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Evan Folds <evan_at_progressearth.com> wrote:

>
>
> May I ask what evidence there is for not adding food sources to “finish=
ed”
> tea? And may I also ask what defines “finished”?
>
>
>
> I understand people to have a wealth of experience looking at microscopes=
,
> and I respect that, we do as well. But very rarely do I see anyone connec=
t
> this microscope reality with their effects on growing plants. That’s th=
e
> point in the end, right? How are we so sure we know when something is
> “finished” when we have no biological baseline of what it “should=
” be?
>
>
>
> For instance, I just got off the phone with a humic acid distributor who
> works globally from Germany. We had a very interesting conversation about
> humic acids in regards to having no baseline. There is no objective way t=
o
> say one is better than the other except results considering it depends on
> oxidization, rate of oxidization, source material, binding sites (COOH, O=
H),
> fulvic:humic ratio, etc. And all humic molecules are not the same, even t=
he
> one structured similarly.
>
>
>
> This is even more complicated and true with microbes. One cannot measure
> true diversity, or more importantly strength or ability, of microbes unde=
r a
> microscope. We’re all humans, and one of us may be the most accomplishe=
d
> soccer player (N cycler) on the planet, but we cannot tell that through a
> conversation or by looking at the individual. This ability is discounted
> when we look materialistically through a microscope. This “strength and
> ability” is one of the factors that defines BioDynamic composts and the
> organisms associated.
>
>
> We have used compost tea brewed for over 4 months perpetually by adding
> humus, catalysts, and food sources daily with spectacular results. Grante=
d,
> it may not be perfect, but, again, what does “perfect” mean if we are=
 not
> attaching what we are telling ourselves to the results of growing plants?
>
>
>
> Be a farmer, start a garden.
>
>
>
> Evan Folds
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