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Re: Re: Interest in Commercial Composting
The University of California Sustainable Agriculture (UC SAREP) published a
$5, 40-page publication "Organic Soil Amendments and Fertilizers" in November
1992. It may not answer all the commercial inquiries you get re. composting,
but it's very useful and is easy to read and understand (it also has good
charts, tables and a few great photos.) The authors are David E. Chaney, UC
SAREP annual cropping systems analyst (dechaney@ucdavis.edu); Laurie E.
Drinkwater, formerly a systems ecologist at the UC Davis Dept. of Vegetable
Crops now at Rodale Research Institute; and Stuart Pettygrove, soils
specialist in the Dept. of Land, Air and Water Resources at UC Davis. To
order, contact:
ANR Publications
University of California
6701 San Pablo Ave.
Oakland, CA 94608-1239
Phone: 510-642-2431
FAX: 510-643-5470
Payment must accompany order. Price includes postage, handling, sales tax.
Please make check or money order payble to UC Regents. You may order by
phone or FAX using MasterCard or VISA.
> I have answered numerous requests for information on composting
> (mostly commercial type inquiries).
>
> However, this is not my particular area of expertise.
>
> Could any of you give me relevant information and/or internet addresses
> for folks working in these areas? I'm wanting to put together a package
> of information and mostly more and better contacts for those writing and
> calling me.
>
> Thanks for your help in advance!
>
> JPB
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> Joel P. (JP) Bach (409) 845-0996 Voice
> Range Ecology & Mgmt. (MS 2126) (409) 845-5579 RLEM Sec'y
> and Agri-Economics (MS 2124) (409) 845-2336 AGEC Sec'y
> Texas A&M University (409) 845-6430 FAX
> College Station, Texas 77843 jpb@ag-eco.tamu.edu
>
> "First there was the grass - then the people"
> "When there's no more grass, there'll be no more people"
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
Lyra Halprin
Senior Writer
UC Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Program
Davis, CA 95616
(916) 752-8664
lhalprin@ucdavis.edu
. a .. è J.Michaels-Books From inin@aol.com Mon Nov 28 16:33:31 EST 1994
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Subject: Re: Is there a Eco Dictionary ?
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Try dictionary of the environmental sciences. 1973. By Robert W.
Durrenberger. National Press Books.
Article 34444 of rec.gardens:
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From: greggpsky@aol.com (Gregg Psky)
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Subject: Re: Recommed books, etc.: Desert
Date: 4 Jun 1994 12:19:01 -0400
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In article <2so8iv$inp@news.CCIT.Arizona.EDU>,
stoddard@helium.Gas.UUG.Arizona.EDU (Mari J Stoddard) writes:
>After years in apartments and condos, I have house. And a yard.
Help!
>What's a good book on desert gardening and landscaping? I have the
Sunset
>Western garden book, but the lists of plants are a bit intimidating
>without more planning-type information.
>Tucson is zone 8, Sunset's region 12. Easy care plants, especially
herbs,
>edibles, or sweet scented shrubs that attract hummingbirds, would be
my
>first choice. It's a little yard, so little plants would be best.
>Recommendations for nurseries, seed catalogs, books, or magazines
will be
>appreciated. Thank you very much,
I'm told that the Sonoran Desert Museum in or near Tucson is an
excellent source for native landscape planting. I've never been
there but most museums have a book shelf, and they certainly have
people who want to help.
There is also Mountain States Nursery, (602) 247-8509. I'm not sure
if they are retail but I have some nice consumer literature from
them. Mountain States specializes in arid horticulture.
Finally, without getting too technical there is an HP Book on "Plants
for Dry Climates" and a new updated version of Bob Perry's book,
"Trees and Shrubs for Dry California Landscapes." Get the new
release it is spectacular.
Good luck
Gregg Polubinsky
Landscape Architect