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Re: response to Jeff-the other's wise comments.

Jeff Alaska,
The readers of your column will embrace scientific gardening, I promise.  I
started writing about it in my newspaper column in 1996, and readers called
in asking questions and emailed.  They asked so many questions about compost
tea, how to tailor compost for various needs, mycorrhizae and rhizobium that
I had to do several column devoted solely to those subjects.  When I stopped
writing the column in 1998 (I moved north to the Arctic), readers asked the
newspaper to rerun the columns on compost tea and compost piles.  The
interest is there.  We just have to deliver the message in an understandable
form.
Doreen Howard

----- Original Message -----
From: "JEFF LOWENFELS" <JEFF@GARDENER.COM>
To: <Gardenwriters@topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 10:38 AM
Subject: [GWL]: response to Jeff-the other's wise comments.


>
>  Jeff-the-lower 48er wrote: The problem becomes one of marketing and
> advertising a very complex concept
> in terms that bring people along slowly but firmly to change their ways.
> The task is not an easy one for any of us.  Elaine may be a true guru, but
> she is not the only guru.  We all need to work together to first get the
> basic facts together so we can at least begin to understand and use soil
> biology ourselves.  And then we have to share ways to get the story out,
> over and over and over again.
>
>
> Jeff-Alaskan-responds:  Yes, great point.  We have to solve it and I think
> some of that gets solved when GWAA does a great survey a la, but better
than
> the NGB's old survey.  People want to get away from ALL chemicals.
>
> I am taking the plunge, nonetheless. Starting next week my columns will be
> infused with Scientific Gardening---soil microbiology, compost and compost
> teas.  I will continue to give advice regarding "non-scienctific
gardening,
> but in Alaska, folks  are going to be heavily exposed to the soil food
web.
> I have meet with nursery owners and they are all extremely interested in
> co-operating. The largest is now experimenting with compost teas (see
below)
> on his annuals, perennials, trees and hanging baskets. He has agreed to
> carry bio-goods, so if any of you sell them out there, let me know and I
> will get you in to his nurseries and two or three others up here. The
Lowe's
> and Home Depot folks will come along later. I can pull this off here
because
> of the smaller population and "one newspaper"
>
> ,.......Incidently, if you want a great tea and tea maker----cheap and
easy
> to use, check out John Evan's web site WWW.ALASKAGIANT.COM   Some of you
may
> remember John Evans. He is the guy that grows all the big vegetables in
> Palmer, Alaska--has zounds of Guiness records. We all visited his garden
> when GWAA was up here (and will again this summer for those who come AFTER
> the Seattle meeting. His kit has a mix in it that includes the very same
> Alaska Humus he uses. It has some of the best biological diversity
> available.....35,000 different kinds of bacteria in a teaspoon.....Since
> leaving the big gas project I worked on full time, I have become very
> heavily involved in trying to produce this naturally occuring humus in
> enough supply to ship it in bulk to the lower 48.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff Alaska
> ______________________________________________
> PLANT A ROW FOR THE HUNGRY: Through PAR, over 3 million pounds of food
have
> been donated by home gardeners like you to feed the hungry. Ask me how you
> can join the effort.
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