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 Chris, 
  
Feel free to use my test data in any way that you like.  
I'll be doing some field trials on turf next year and will make that data 
available too. 
  
Paul Sachs 
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  Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 7:17 
  AM 
  Subject: [compost_tea] Offer to Create 
  Best Practices Lists 
  
  Jason Austin said:
  Some of those lurkers have been 
  snapped at in recent months, that'll drive people for cover pretty 
  quick.    More tolerance to "dumb" questions will probably 
  see more activity.  There will be dumb questions; there will be 
  questions that have been asked and answered before; but that is what a list 
  is all about, people come and go.
  Jason's post reminds me that on 
  lists, it is a challenge to go back through old posts and figure out the 
  answer to your questions.  Yes, people do come and go on a list and 
  making it easy to learn as people join can help more people be up to speed 
  more quickly, and raise us all to new levels of expertise much 
  faster.
  I offered to compile weed test results (a couple of people 
  responded but no one has sent any data).  I also offer to compile and 
  put in document form other group information.  Here is an example of 
  what we could collect and make available, especially to new list 
  members:
  1.  Our compiled list of BEST PRACTICES FOR BREWING, 
  including tips we have learned about cleaning equipment, water type and pH, 
  aeration before brewing, temperature, container size and shape.  This 
  can be an ongoing list of BPs and as people learn from making and testing 
  teas, we can add to the list or append/annotate.
  2.  BEST 
  PRACTICES - TEA SPRAYING: Our similar compiled list of BPs for spraying 
  teas, including specific information about equipment, pressure, nozzle 
  types, spray technique, weather conditions, and other "learned the hard 
  way" info.
  3.  Ditto for BEST PRACTICES - TEA 
  APPLYING
  4.  RECIPES AND RESULTS:  A list of recipes and test 
  results for those willing to share their SFI test and the ingredients they 
  combined to get the result. (This would be intended as a starting point for 
  people, rather than with any implication that if I make your recipe I will 
  necessarily come up with the same results.)
  5.  BREWER 
  OBSERVATIONS - A table formatted to show consumer observations about their 
  brewers:  are they easy or difficult to clean?  Are there caveats 
  to using it?  When you have used other brewers, what comparison would 
  you make about the features?  This feedback can also be given 
  to manufacturers for their comment or ideas to use in improving their 
  product or simply confirming the usefulness of their current 
  design.
  For example, the recent question related to spraying and spray 
  nozzles clogging could be more easily answered if we had a list of nozzles, 
  where to get them, and what firsthand experience had taught us about using 
  those nozzles.
  We are amassing a shared body of information and 
  knowledge here, and it seems wasteful for each and every person to have to 
  design a way to capture the info and store it so that it will be easily 
  retrievable.
  If anyone wants to do this, JUMP RIGHT IN!  I will 
  start tracking and making the lists when you start responding.  Don't 
  miss this big chance to be heard and have your wisdom recorded in the 
  Golden Archives of this CT e-group!
  To begin basking in your 15 minutes 
  of fame, just send a post with a heading that copies one of the TITLES IN 
  CAPS in the numbered areas listed above. Please send multiple posts if you 
  have multiple observations, so these posts can be sorted out by TOPIC and 
  put in an electronic folder as I collect them for making the lists and 
  tables.  Don't forget -- what is obvious to you now was not obvious 
  when you started!  The simplest tip will help the beginner.
  Please 
  note whether or not you have tested the teas produced by the method you are 
  suggesting.  Untested methods will be listed as 
  IDEAS/UNTESTED METHODS.  If others  read the list and discover an 
  idea/untested method for which they have already tested, we then would 
  welcome and add their information on the results the methods have produced 
  for them.
  If you find that this suggestion would be of value, please 
  vote with your ACTION.  I'd rather not debate it -- I'd rather just 
  get it done!
  Cheers,
  Chris Reid
 
 
 
 
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