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Gopinatha Acarya wrote:

 

>>Now what to do with the flour for 10 or 20 chappaties? Are we going to set

up a

biogas digester? No way. Pick up a few cow pats regularly, from around the

house,

throw them on the wall, pick them up when they fall off dry, put them in a

tin bucket

stove, shove some straw from the corner left over from the harvest

underneath as

tinder,, light it up and boil the milk you've just milked.

In this way just keep it simple. What to do with the left over ash? Use it

for cleaning

pots, making soap, or sprinkle it around your fruit trees or vegies.

But of course, the cows and bulls are not always around so you only use some

of their

dung. If you want to compost it, great. Another suggestion is to hang two

1/2 full 40

kg feed bags of fresh manure on either side of a piece of wood on top of an

open 44

gallon drum of water (hang them in the water) for a few weeks and give each

plant 1/2

litre to a litre of the liquid fertilizer. This avoids the weed seeds, from

using the fresh

dung straight.

My personal experience was to pick the best soil handy for growing

vegetables, and

don't worry about fertilizer. Certain vegetables grow best and stick to

them. If you

plant them at the right time you don't need to water them. As Srila

Prabhupada said, if

you grow one crop a year, the soil won't deplete. >>

 

 

Yes this text was very enlivening.

We must learn to leave more in the soil than we take out!

So whatever system you choose, for however many people you need to feed, we

must be replenishing adequatley.

 

>What to do with the left over ash?>

 

put some in the compost as it will balance acidity and add calcium/potash.

 

If you get Indore composting to work properly weed seeds, diseased plants

etc., are all destroyed in the compost and eight times the amount of compost

can be acheived from the amount of cow dung applied, just by piling up waste

in the right way, including all the stools.

 

It is so simple who needs a regular toilet system. Save money, time and

effort - Chant Hare Krsna.

 

Vedic principle: One good action performed - many problems solved.

 

On a farm or in a temple there should be no waste left hanging around.

Your servant,

 

Radha Krsna das.