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[compost_tea] Re: Fwd: compost tea applications - persistance
GSI and Soil Soup have plenty of company?..
I saw another group of purported experts and their machine at a
Horticulture trade show in October. They based their claims on BBC
results almost exclusively. They represent CT much like the chemical
paradigm. A cure rather than a method. A real albatross of a machine
with an attached RO system. I really got the biggest laugh out of a
drain, placed for product removal, 2 inches off the ground dependent
on gravity to move the CT.
Here's the post I've had in my draft file unfinished?.
I saw a couple of tea machines at a horticulture trade show last
week. Soil Soup had a booth, and Worm Gold also had an act. On my
first pass by the Worm Gold booth a young man jumped in my face and
flashed a "giant pumpkin" picture, laminated and emblazoned
with "WORM GOLD". Giant pumpkins again, this time without the long
days of sunshine. In less than 5 seconds I heard about their trials
at a prominent strip hotel The machine was to be delivered the next
day but they already had results????? Every acquaintance I met who
had seen the booth had been accosted by the same antics.
The machine and the approach by the sales and design force were
consistent with my past experiences with this crew. The brewer
apparently costs in excess of $6900 in the current 100-gallon
version. A 3 HP Siemans blower supplies air to 4 diffusers. A 650-
gallon per day RO unit is designed to provide the water. Tea is
emptied by gravity fed valve 2 inches off the floor. All in all an
overbuilt affair represented by a carnival like crew of non-
gardeners!!!
--- In compost_tea@yahoogroups.com, soilfoodweb@a... wrote:
> Hi Bob -
>
> If only the Growing Solutions and Soil Soup people would get their
heads on
> straight, the world of compost tea could forge ahead faster. But
we have to
> bring the recalcitrant along with the rest of us. We waste time
having to
> educate them, over and over.
>
> And if anyone doesn't believe that they have been harmful to the
world of
> compost tea, just look at what Growing Solutions did with the work
with BBC
> Labs. We could have avoided all that frou-ha-ha with the Compost
Task Force
> if the OMRI recommendation had just been followed from the very
beginning.
>
> Sigh. Can their ignorance harm the rest of us? Very clearly, yes.
Would
> there be less likelihood of harm if they would communicate with the
rest of
> the world of compost tea before doing stupid and ignorant things on
their
> own? Very clearly, yes.
>
> How do we get them to stop messing things up? I'm open to any
suggestions
> that the rest of the community would like to make.
>
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