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Pat Meadows wrote:
On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 11:16:14 -0400, WCD wrote: I was having the same problem. I was tooling down the boulevard here in Connecticut and I spotted a bunch of nice pallets behind a Sears Tool store. I inquired and they gave me all I could cart off in my pickup. The Sears people were very nice and the pallets are all new and they even match. I have since noticed there aren't always pallets there. I think I just got there on the right day. I do too. If I ever see a stack like that, I'll surely ask. Thanks. Pat If you know anyone that does 'Intarsia', a type of woodworking, they'll love some of the pallets too as some pretty exotic woods (grains and colors too) are used in them. Oak is very common. |
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Tom Jaszewski wrote in message . ..
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:51:15 -0400, NC_FUBAR wrote: Have also read in several places that cooked meat, bones, and human/pet manure should not be included in compost materials. I put nothing I wouldn't eat in my pile, that includes ALL animal products. For some of us organic meat is an oxymoron.... Thats because your confusing/intertwining two separate concepts. Organic farming (which favors renewable resources and recycling, returning to the soil the nutrients found in waste products) and vegetarianism. |
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I wouldn't put any animal type waste in a manure pile. There are disease
risks. "Andrew McMichael" wrote in message ... What do y'all put in your compost. Our pile is fairly far from the house, and we don't have a garbage disposal, so I put most everything in there--all organics (veggie cuttings, scrapings from the plates, oils, meat trimmings, etc]. But I've heard that one should stick to vegetable material. Is this so? Why? Andrew |
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In article , Andrew McMichael
wrote: Pat Meadows wrote: I think it would be nice to have a compost heap made out of pallets (or other wood). I've used pallets for years. I use those metal fence posts that cost about $3 at the hardware store to support them. Pallets can be found most anywhere, so the entire set-up costs me no more than about $15. Basically I stand a pallet on its end, and put the post down the middle. The pallets aren't tied together in any way so there's no need for anything other than a hammer, the pallets, and the posts. Takes about fifteen minutes to put it all together. Andrew Your local lumberyard may give away their damaged pallets for free. Ours does. Also, if you live near a shipping port, you can get pallets and wooden shipping containers made out of hardwoods (mahogany anyone?) for free, if you're a good scrounge. Jan |
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In article , Andrew McMichael
wrote: TomC wrote: A local dairy farmer sells compost and manure. Guess where his dead cows go! Cow heaven? Andrew One of our cows ran the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. She got photosensitivity from eating hay with just the right mold in it, the water system quit for a couple of days and the combination was just enough to push her over the edge. We gave her to Jack Berry, for dog food. So she ran the Iditarod six weeks later, as dog food. (She was a really neat cow, so we were bummed about her dying, but jazzed that her carcass went to such good use. Her daughters and granddaughters are the best brood cows in our herd these days.) Jan |
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In article , tomj wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:51:15 -0400, NC_FUBAR wrote: Have also read in several places that cooked meat, bones, and human/pet manure should not be included in compost materials. I put nothing I wouldn't eat in my pile, that includes ALL animal products. For some of us organic meat is an oxymoron.... I don't mean to demean anyone that eats or uses animal products, just happen to believe in "Diet for a Small Planet". Go surf around www.eatwild.com Growing beef on grass helps with carbon sequestration, among other things. Jan organic beef rancher |
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"Andrew McMichael" wrote
What do y'all put in your compost. Our pile is fairly far from the house, and we don't have a garbage disposal, so I put most everything in there--all organics (veggie cuttings, scrapings from the plates, oils, meat trimmings, etc]. But I've heard that one should stick to vegetable material. Is this so? Why? As others have posted, a "hot" pile will probably consume an old boot. More casual "cold" composting will turn leaves, grass, veg and fruit waste, and an occasional spade- or potful of dirt into a lovely mixture for digging into your garden. In addition to the above, I add (rinsed and crumbled) eggshells, coffee grinds, and sometimes a teabag or 3. The only time my pile has any odor at all is immediately after adding something like canteloupe rind. Fats, proteins, bones, etc. may attract rodents. I don't want oily stuff in my soil, so I keep that out, too. Trimmings from making salad? Into the pile. Leftover salad with dressing? Into the garbage. |
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If you know anyone that does 'Intarsia', a type of woodworking,
they'll love some of the pallets too as some pretty exotic woods (grains and colors too) are used in them. Oak is very common. another good place to check is grocery stores. They tend to get lots of stuff in on pallets. Smaller town stores are best, as some of the larger ones have special returnable skids they send back with thier own trucks... Central IL small garden, but do my best! email: daveallyn at bwsys dot net please respond in this NG so others can share your wisdom as well! |
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We've had a great worm bin for about 7 or 8 years in our backyard. When we
recently remodeled the kitchen, it turned out that composting had saved us a bunch of money! The plumber looked at our garbage disposal and the pipes attached to it and was amazed that we hadn't had a major breakdown, because the pipe was really too small to handle the job. He said there was no way the disposal should have lasted 25 years, as it had. The worm bin also has provided a great start for new planting gardens that I've been adding to my backyard each year. We started out with a yard that was just a big rectangle of bad lawn. Now we have a great veggie garden, a raspberry patch, a rose garden, etc. I hope to eventually have a back yard that is more garden than lawn. I put everything in the compost bin except fats and meat. I also get my husband to put a layer of grass clippings in a couple of times during the summer. (We usually compost the grass in a separate pile from the worm bin, but it "freshens up" the worm bin to add grass from time to time.) "Frogleg" wrote in message ... "Andrew McMichael" wrote What do y'all put in your compost. Our pile is fairly far from the house, and we don't have a garbage disposal, so I put most everything in there--all organics (veggie cuttings, scrapings from the plates, oils, meat trimmings, etc]. But I've heard that one should stick to vegetable material. Is this so? Why? As others have posted, a "hot" pile will probably consume an old boot. More casual "cold" composting will turn leaves, grass, veg and fruit waste, and an occasional spade- or potful of dirt into a lovely mixture for digging into your garden. In addition to the above, I add (rinsed and crumbled) eggshells, coffee grinds, and sometimes a teabag or 3. The only time my pile has any odor at all is immediately after adding something like canteloupe rind. Fats, proteins, bones, etc. may attract rodents. I don't want oily stuff in my soil, so I keep that out, too. Trimmings from making salad? Into the pile. Leftover salad with dressing? Into the garbage. |
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In article , tomj wrote:
On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 15:51:35 -0800, (Jan Flora) wrote: Go surf around www.eatwild.com Growing beef on grass helps with carbon sequestration, among other things. Jan organic beef rancher Thanks Jan, very interesting! We continue to buy organic beef when we entertain and you've succeeded in convincing us to continue for our unenlightened friends. :) We'll have to agree to disagree personally, but I respect your informed choice. namaste, tomj One of the ranchers in our cattlemans association is married to a vegetarian. It's NBD. When we have to go to convention banquets, he gets her prime rib and she gets his king crab legs : ) In my home, we actually eat a lot more seafood than beef, because my SO will cave in and sell "our" beef, when a neighbor needs one for a wedding, for Easter or some other big occasion. We go fishing all winter long out on the bay, to catch halibut & king salmon. And buy crab & scallops on the dock. And go clamming. A lot of our "recreation" is actually subsistence food gathering. (Neither one of us hunts moose, caribou or black bear anymore. We'd rather look at the animals than kill them. But it's tempting to shoot moose when they get in the garden and eat all the cabbage & broccali a week before harvest. There's a moose heifer hanging around here tonight, so I put a radio out in the garden and tuned it to a station that plays a lot of Rush Limbaugh all night. That should scare her off. *g*) Jan |
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Vegetarian, by definition, means someone who doesn't eat red meat, doesn't eat poultry, and doesn't eat seafood - in short, a vegetarian doesn't eat any dead animals. What about live animals? G (Sorry Pat couldn't resist...) Mike |
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On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 14:07:00 GMT, "Mike Stevenson"
wrote: Vegetarian, by definition, means someone who doesn't eat red meat, doesn't eat poultry, and doesn't eat seafood - in short, a vegetarian doesn't eat any dead animals. What about live animals? G (Sorry Pat couldn't resist...) Nah. It's too hard to catch them, except clams and other mollusks. :) Pat |
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