[compost_tea] Re: Sustainable Farming News & Biological Agriculture Information. > Blog Archive > 8 Essentials for Successful Microbe Brewing

From: Dan <dansquest2005_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:39:53 -0000

Hi Jason,
   Louis Pasteur thought the same but bokashi is a biological fermentation =
process. Has anyone took a look at the microbes from bokashi? I must get a =
microscope one of these days and I will as soon as I can intelligently expl=
ain to the wife why I need one to garden.

Dan in Ct Zone 6A Where who would of thought you could get the big pictur=
e looking through a microscope.

--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, Jason Kalka <shortstop42000_at_...> wrote:
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> Fermentaion is a biological process used to create alcohol. Using fermen=
tation to describe another biological process would be inaccurate.
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> From: mikethewormguy <mikethewormguy_at_...>
> Sent: December 19, 2011 1:26 PM
> To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [compost_tea] Re: Sustainable Farming News & Biological Agricult=
ure Information. > Blog Archive > 8 Essentials for Successful Microbe Brewi=
ng
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> Tim,
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> I think it is a matter of accepted convention, within a specific context=
, as to what language is used. In other words, it depends on where you were=
 schooled and what industries you worked.
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> In the commercial industrial microbially world when they grow out microb=
es, the process is called fermentation. The device used is called a ferment=
or or biofermentor.
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> There are two phases for fermentation, solid and liquid. Thus you have l=
iquid state fermentations and solid state fermentations.
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> From this context, the EM process would be liquid phase anaerobic fermen=
tation.
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> So there is no right or wrong. It is a matter of what you words you are =
use to using.
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> The ACT folks use the word 'fermentation' in a different way than folks =
that work in industrial fermentation. This how they were taught.
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> In regard to using EM ferment liquid, as a stubble buster, I would agree=
 that there is a place this liquid. But the microbes in this blend are not =
the optimal choice. The fungi have the enzyme systems that are better suite=
d for stubble busting.
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> I have read Doud's work concerning on-farm production of endomycorrhizal=
 microbes using nurse plants. It is pretty cool stuff.
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> At the end of the day, folks will continue to use the bio-tools that wor=
ks for their soil and crop, no matter what are called.
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> Happy Holidays to All !!!!
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> --- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, "Tim Wilson" <thegoodjob_at_> wrote:
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