John, I am in Brenham.
Tim
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From: urbanworms [mailto:urbanworms_at_houston.rr.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 12:47 PM
To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: [compost_tea] Re: The Year of Compost Tea in San Antonio
Hi David.
It's good to hear from ACT proponents in Texas. Sometimes I get the
impression that no one in the Central Time Zone knows about tea. But
that
might be because I'm in Houston. We seem to be lagging behind the
rest of
the state when it comes to natural gardening and agriculture. Luckily
there are
now several of us planning to fix that.
I wonder if there are any list members besides myself in Houston? If
so,
please don't be offended -- I'm a relative newbie to the list.
John Gardner
Urban Worms Recycling
urbanworms_at_houston.rr.com
--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, "David Hall" <dchall8_at_t...> wrote:
> For the past few years, Mr. Malcolm Beck, San Antonio's primer
> organic farmer and promoter, has organized the Valley Conference on
> Sustainable Agriculture. The 2004 conference was held two weeks
ago
> to a standing room only crowd in Weslaco, Texas. What has happened
> down there is the USDA's subtropical agricultural research center
in
> the Texas Rio Grande Valley has declared that their center will be
> an organic research area. Malcolm has capitalized on their
interest
> by bringing in speakers from around all over the U.S. to talk about
> their successes in using organic methods and materials with the
idea
> being to stimulate the flow of research ideas. Keep in mind the
> researchers were not necessarily organic minded before their boss
> declared they would be, so some of them have to unlearn a few
things
> they were taught in school. Here is a link to Malcolm's website
> where he kept the conference schedule
>
> http://www.malcolmbeck.com/schedules/Organic_Conference.htm
>
> If you'll notice from the speakers' list, there were very few
> research academics or government folks. The speakers were organic
> producers and sustainable agriculture promoters from all over.
> Again, the idea is to stimulate research.
>
> So what about it? Malcolm does a 20 minute bit on a Sunday morning
> organic gardening radio program in San Antonio. Yesterday based on
> the discussions at the conference, he declared that 2004 was going
> to be The Year of Compost Tea. In fact he bought a compost tea
> brewer and plans to sell fresh tea at farmer's markets on weekends.
>
> Malcolm is an institution in San Antonio. What Malcolm says to the
> relatively large organic community in San Antonio is pretty golden.
> When he gets interested in a subject, the entire community gets
> interested. Based on his comment this weekend, I expect to see
> enthusiastic interest in compost tea usage with significant
increase
> in amateur production in San Antonio.
>
> For what it's worth, I think the rest of the industry will notice
> the blip.
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