Ordered a compost tea brewer from you today... bummer the ICmag coupons aren't running yet but glad you have such a great selection of hard to find items!
During your R&D period with your tea makers, did you find out if the design is scalable for smaller amounts of tea?
Basically, I barely have room for a 5 gal tank in my apartment and I dig your stuff, but can't justify brewing 5 gallon batches of tea at a time (I don't even have enough vegetables and other plants to give it too!).
Are there any possibilities you could make a smaller version (2.5 gal or 2 gal)?
it's strange, i came here to ask that exact same question, ive been doing a lot of research on the available kits and diy's, yours seems to be the best overall deal, i mean they have these vortex brewers that claim to be the best but they seem extremely expensive and pretty large, and the diy versions of the vortex look kinda crappy...and all the other diy ones out there mostly just look like crappy versions of yours...During your R&D period with your tea makers, did you find out if the design is scalable for smaller amounts of tea?
Basically, I barely have room for a 5 gal tank in my apartment and I dig your stuff, but can't justify brewing 5 gallon batches of tea at a time (I don't even have enough vegetables and other plants to give it too!).
Are there any possibilities you could make a smaller version (2.5 gal or 2 gal)?
Hey Eureka, so I am a Denver local and was checking out your site. I was wondering how organic your ingredients are? I see Flax, Soybean, cottonseed, corn gluten......all potentially GMO amendments (corn at a 98% probability). Can you guarantee your products insofar as non-GMO?
I don't get hung up on gmo inputs. There are far worse things that should be addressed before you get to a point where gmo inputs are going to be the deciding factor.
Wrong
GMO contains modified genes. Not inherently anything more.
GMO products tend to be less expensive, dollar-price-wise.
Like with most produce, non-GMO organic is often more expensive.
A fairly simple trade-off.
Genetically Modified Organism - Thats all it means. Traditionally bred varieties are subject to the same damn treatment.
Take a step back, I'm talking about GMO. Not interested in hearing a rant about our industrial food production system.
Composted genes are still just composted genes.
dude thats just industrial agriculture, they did the same shit to crops before genetic modification was possible.
Only in the last 100 or so years. Humans have farmed for thousands of years successfully without spraying their crops lol
But to say that GMO = pesticide, herbicide, etc is not correct.
As I stated before, I never said GMO = pesticide. You keep misinterpreting me. What I am saying is that crops that are genetically modified have lowered resistance to disease, pests, environmental stress. Because of this GMO crops require a heavy amount of chemical upkeep to keep them alive. Take away the pesticides and fungicides and there goes 46% of all alfalfa, 94% cottonseed, 96% soybean, 98% corn.
There are GMO crops that are designed to use nutrients more efficiently, be more drought resistant, provide more complete nutrient profiles. Its way bigger than roundup. Just wait until we can plant perennial everything.
GMO crops (even though effecient at nutrient absorption) are NOT effecient at outputting nutrients. Organic crops output higher nutrient levels across the boardEven on a molecular level GMO crops have shown to breakdown and have constant mutation all the while cross pollinating non-GMO crops. Look on a GMO label of corn or what have you and look at the nutrients. Everything on that label is a lie. You are not getting the levels of nutrients they say you are getting because Monsanto owns the industry.
I hate monsanto just as much as you do - but we need to move past the knee jerk GMO reaction if we want humanity to benefit from these technologies rather than them being used as a tool of exploitation.
That's your problem, genetically modifying any food will destroy it. The DNA code is not meant to be messed with. Do you see us testing animals in public view? Humans? Food is an easy target because no one has feelings for food. Organic all the way. Don't fuck with the DNA, it's best the way it is.
There is a reason 99% of the population doesn't know what a luddite is.