Re: Re: summer chicken broth?

July 17, 2002

At 07:28 AM 7/16/2002 -0400, you wrote:

>any suggestion? Do you make broth year round? btw, I still have plenty of

>frozen broth from the spring batch.....

>

>TIA,

I froze the broth, and still have plenty.

As for bones ... I'm experimenting with breaking them down by fermenting

and/or vinegar to feed the garden. Dirt needs calcium too!

Heidi Schuppenhauer

Trillium Custom Software Inc.

heidis@...

July 17, 2002

Quoting Heidi Schuppenhauer <heidis@...>:

> As for bones ... I'm experimenting with breaking them down by

> fermenting

> and/or vinegar to feed the garden. Dirt needs calcium too!

Don't bother--there's plenty of silicon in dirt, and it can be transmuted

to calcium!

--

Berg

bberg@...

July 17, 2002

At 03:06 PM 7/17/2002 +0000, you wrote:

>Be aware that vinegar itself will kill plants, and it takes a week or

>two for the acetic acid to break down. So, don't apply your calcium

>solution to live plants. Another thing you could try with bones after

>they've been softened up by broth making is to smash them into

>smaller pieces with a hammer and then pulverize them with some water

>in a Vitamix. That would create a bonemeal slurry.

That's a good point. The calcium carbonate should neutralize a lot of the

acid -- but it

would be good to test the results and maybe add some thing else to

neutralize too.

>

Heidi

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