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    As far as the research, the Sunday Detroit Free Press on 8-9-09 ran a front page article, "Afraid of the Water". Michigan communities that rely on well water and are near factory farms, likes Birds Eye, are experiencing things like bath tubs that are stained bright orange and the cost of having to replace their plumbing due to the bright orange sledge.
    But here are the steps as they appear on the top of a page of the Sunday Free Press Article. 1. Food processors wash vegetables or fruit, creating waste water containing organic material, such as fruit waste, sugars and salts. 2. The waste water is pumped into pipes and then sprayed onto fields the processors rent or buy. The theory is the waste water is good for the crops and the soil, giving back nutrients. 3. Scientists have found that bacteria thrive in the waste water and strip the oxygen out. 4. The oxygen depleted water pulls naturally occurring metals, as well as arsenic, out of the soil like a magnet, as they head toward the water table. 5. The groundwater with metals and arsenic flows into people's wells and out of their taps.

8/14/2009 9:16:16 AM

Macomb County

And we are in the habit of pouring a stew of organic waste water around our plants and on weekly basis too.
    Talk to any grower who knows their compost tea and they will tell you what kind of microbes grow in compost tea, if you don't oxygenate the water with something like an air stone. It will turn rancid.
    What are these mysterious crown rot problems we have? What do we drench organic stew around?
    No, I don't think it implies, don't use organics. I think it means we have to become more enlightened about how to use them is all. And pay attention to the sound advice that's all ready known. Like ammend in the Fall and early Spring, not right before planting.
    Brewed compost tea has plenty of oxygen while it's brewing, plenty in it when it done and plenty in it when a grower applies it? Jutras has mentioned he uses compost tea?

8/14/2009 9:17:27 AM