[Summit] Food Composting and Worm Tea

[Hope for Health]

The worm tea is good stuff.

However, a caution about the "all-natural" peanut butter.
"All-natural" is a term with no meaning.  Worse, peanuts
were found to be the most heavily pesticided crop in a
study some years back.  The safest thing is to buy only
organic PB, especially if you have kids, who eat lots 
of it.  It's not that expensive if you figure the number
of meals you get from one jar.  Also, avoid the plastic
jars, and go for the glass.

Check out:  www.whatsonmyfood.org/food.jsp?food=PB

Blessings,

Liberty G

--- On Sun, 5/15/11, Sharon Lee Waldman <slwaldman at cox.net> wrote:

> From: Sharon Lee Waldman <slwaldman at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [Summit] Food Composting and Worm Tea
> To: summit at sna.providence.ri.us
> Date: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 3:53 PM
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> We get the most amazing all-natural peanut butter at the
> Virginal and
> Spanish Peanut Co in Providence, and it comes in large 7
> pound buckets
> that are great for sitting next to the sink for compost.
> (By the way,
> the company has been in busines almost 100 years, and it's
> like stepping
> back in time to go in the sales office. The 7 pound bucket
> of peanut
> butter costs about $15, cash or check only.)
> 
> Also, on the topic of composting, we have been putting all
> our food
> scraps into a worm bin in our basement all winter and now
> have a few
> gallons of worm tea from this, which is more than we can
> use. 
> 
> Worm tea is a 100% natural fertilizer. Worm tea is actually
> worm
> castings, i.e. the liquid part of worm excrement. It is
> produced from
> the unused, compostable fruit and veggie parts myself and
> my family will
> otherwise throw away (for example fruit rinds, onion skins,
> etc). It is
> an absolutely incredible fertilizer. I use it in my house
> plants and
> garden. If there was ever an organic fertilizer, this is
> it. Worms eat
> the food, digest it, and the liquid excrement is collected.
> If you are
> interesting in buying some for a nominal fee ($6 per bottle
> (about 20
> oz)), please contact me.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sherry on Greaton Dr.
> 
> 
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 9:55:36 -0400
> From: <flutesy at cox.net>
> To: Summit Neighborhood <summit at sna.providence.ri.us>
> Subject: [Summit] kitchen composting
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> 
> For those people who like to put their kitchen scraps into
> a
> "composting" container in their kitchens for later use in
> the compost
> pile in their yards, you might be interested in something
> available at
> the Farmer Market in Pawtucklet on Wednesdays.  The
> fellow at the front
> from an enrvironmental organization (sorry _ i don't
> remember the name
> of the porganization) has these really cool, much larger
> than normal
> sized plastic containers for $5.  He has reused
> containers that Seven
> Stars received olives in.  A unique idea for efficient
> reuse.
> 
> Phyl
> 
> 
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