[Mikell]

Top Shelf Feeds carries a few things, including Bokashi material and two EM inoculants from Cowichan Compost.

There's also a chubby black cat that sits up on it's hind legs and waves it's paws in the air like a nutter. Had a mild buzz on the first time I saw it happen and laughed my ass off.

[bigbag]

^ you had a mild buzz on or the cat ? ha

mikell have you ever been to integrity distributors in saanichton?

Originally Posted by HiFiGanja

Both Terralink and Evergro/Direct Solutions will do walk in sales. You'll pay full retail though. For some products it might not matter much but for others it could, just depends on what price the retailer negotiated.

I have a love hate relations ship with Evergro. The employees and service is pretty good but they control the price of Pro Mix so you get monopoly prices on promix. Even if you try to get a container load you get fuck all on savings.

I just did the cash and carry at evergro / bought some omri listed pro-mix MP @ $31/bale retail.. I bought a shovel too, looks like good prices on gardening tools.. I should have picked up one of those huge aluminum landscaping rakes that I saw there, they are pretty useful.. the omri sunshine is closer to 40 bucks/bale at terralink.. I just use a few bales for veggie starts, omri because we are certified.. prob should get an acct..

[bigbag]

was told a couple years ago, we were the only acct, " in the industry". meanwhile an old hippy lady from Lasquiti was loading up and asked if they could deliver it to the dock and load on her barge...as well as a Vietnamese guy grabbing equally as much...ha, suppose they have landscaping companies or something

[Mikell]

Cats never enjoy going into the cardboard box of smoke.

Originally Posted by c-ray

mikell have you ever been to integrity distributors in saanichton?

Nope, good place? Or is that what you were trying to suss out?

yep the best for organic amendments on the island imho..

shar kare in nanaimo has cheap lime, aka imasco field marking powder.. 7 bucks a 50 lb bag.. mined in the north island, processed in surrey.. it's a real fine grind, and the vein they mine is quite pure, the same product in a super fine grind gets marketed as calcium carbonate for food applications.. shar kare in nanaimo also has cheap bags of perlite..

terralink has the black earth brand humates in a fine granule, 13 bucks a bag,.. water soluble fine grind gypsum 7 bucks a bag.. soft rock phosphate 23 bucks a bag.. trace sulphates are available in 2kg bags..

there's an organic alfalfa coming out of eastern sask. that's pretty good if one can find it.. I've seen in bc before just can't remember where: https://www.alfalfagreen.ca

red lake earth is a 67% diatomaceous earth / 33% calcium bentonite product mined north of kamloops.. pretty common in farm feed stores in the western provinces.. seen it in the 13-20 buck a bag range..
https://www.absorbentproductsltd.com

shar kare in courtenay has the pure white diatomaceous earth bulk and by the bag, like 70 or 80 a bag.. they also have stuff like kelp meal and a few other odds and ends..

who's making the kick ass compost commercially in canada is the question I would like to know the answer to?

[Bmac1]

Would it be SeaSoil?

is that a good one?
is there someone in canada doing luebke style controlled microbial composting?


another link, these guys have some microbes and ferts.. they carry Tainio products but for some reason don't list them on their website..
https://www.agriculturesolutions.ca/store