[compost_tea] Is ACT urgently needed?
PROBLEM (s) At the pump, gas is high priced. The supply of oil is, long term, going to be harder to get, much higher in cost, if in 10 to 30 years it will be available at all.
This year the entire Northwest, east to Minnesota, the land is dry,
I'm not here to tell you ACT can fix this problem. It can help.
1) No til farming can reduce the energy used to til. Less oil. Less CO2
2) No til can reduce run off, hold moisture to soak in, reduce evaporation to 1/2..
3) No till can reduce dust storm erosion and guard shoots from drying wind and sand blasting.
4) ACT can live on and convert the surface trash to plant nutrients, minimize disease in trash.
5) ACT can help soil adsorb water and hold moisture in soil texture and slime.
6) ACT can help send roots deep to find moist earth.
7) ACT can help satisfy the nutrient needs of plants with less water. When nutrients are readily available, plants pump & expire less water to satisfy their need for nutrients.
8) This partial solution to our oil and water problem needs to be known and acted upon by every home owner, gardener, lawn care, landscape service, golf course, school and park grounds keepers, road way keepers, farm, mega farm, ranch -- It is urgent that we conserve oil, minmize CO2 in the atmosphere, conserve water, prevent desertification of this vast part of our world. We who know this, need to get the word out. It is urgent. Yes we are not the only ones who know this. Many farm groups are aware. Will there be enough action to help THIS SEASON ? Is this a job for this LIST to promote?
All the brewers makers together can't begin to provide the equiment needed this spring. A company the size of Boeing might make enough equipement. Then to get it to the users and teach them how to use the equipment and the ACT in APRIL ? May?
Possibly directions to users as to how they can build the equipment. with the directions why and how ACT should be used? Anyone see a way to meet the urgent schedule?
Is this a self serving message? If Bob's Brewers was making a financial return it would be self serving. BB, like most of you, are doing this at less than poor pay because the Planet needs ACT. Needs the change. Except for No OIL and No RAIN we could let it happen as it has. Slowely. One dink dink detail at a time. I think ACTION is URGENT this spring. I think ACTION is needed on an urgency neither we nor the USDA have addressed. Bob
PS When I say ACT I mean to include the broad scope of building the SFW
and related materials and process of restoration of the SFW.
Received on Fri Mar 18 2005 - 04:04:05 EST
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