Re: [compost_tea] Re: Re: My compost

From: Jeff Lowenfels <jeff_at_gardener.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 10:25:20 -0900
Kirk, you may be on to something. For years I have used the concept
that when I say compost, I mean compost....if it isn't properly made
then it is not compost.  I think many of us think this way.  If you say
compost, we know what you are talking about because we know what
properly made compost looks like, feels like, tests etc...

Unfortunately, the term is not ours to control and there is no question
that some businesses pass off 'not really compost' to an uneducated
public.

So, may be it is time to bend a little in our conceptualization of the
word compost. We are correct, of course, but it is clear that the
public is confused as to what really constitutes compost. May be we,
and by way of extension the NOP, should start to use a different term
so as to make clear when we say compost we mean properly made, fully
completed, e-coli free material?

How about "tea-quality compost" to encompass the thought.   Ingredients
for tea might include " de-chlorinated water, molasses and TEA-QUALITY
compost. Just as someone will ask how to de-chlorinate the water, or
you will explain that the molasses has to be sulfur free,  they will
ask what "tea-quality compost" is....

Cheers,

Jeff
www.alaskahumus.com

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Received on Sun Mar 06 2005 - 15:41:31 EST

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