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Re: [compost_tea] Composting Council



Hi Jack and others -

As soon as the annual report for this year's SARE grant is done (by Dec 31, of course), we'll get the report out to the list serve, ok?  We're still working on the statistics.....   A graduate student, Kirk Waterstripe, will present the paper at the US Composting Council meeting.  We'll publish in Applied Soil Ecology, or Biology and Fertility of Soils as soon as the paper gets formally written up.  But please realize, that we have one more year left to go on the grant.  Then we will write up the whole project, with three years worth of data.

Cindy Salter will present a paper as well at the US Composting Council, and it would be good to get a copy of that paper from her.  Although please realize that  the president of Growing Solutions has stated that I cannot communicate with any of his employees or associates at all in any way, under duress of a lawsuit coming my way if I do speak with them.  Not talking to anyone selling Growing Solutions products is fine by me, but then how can anyone associated with Growing Solutions possibly present an overview of compost tea?   Cindy's employer prevents her from talking to one of the major researchers in the area of compost tea, so how can she present an industry overview of compost tea? 

There will also be a field demonstration of a great compost tea machine - one that actually gets GREAT fungal extraction and growth in the tea maker - and a tour of the clearly visible benefits of compost tea given by Tom Jaszewski, the head horticulturalist at the Mirage Hotel, on the last day of the meeting.  Tom's presentation and tour should be very informative, and I suspect that he will give the real overview of what's going on in the world of compost tea.

Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com

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