Hi Beth, Thanks for posting on my community board. Looks like you got it figured out. Hope to visit plenty more. Talk more soon........smiles........Kelly ...
Hello, friends, I live in rural Vermont where I forage wild foods and garden biologically using cultures of Effective Microorganisms, compost and earthworms....
Welcome! I'd love you hear of your adventures with EM, personally. I killed off most of my earthworms this year because the lid broke and the rats got in and...
Thanks, Heidi. EM has served me well for the past 5 years. I'm happy to have an EM practitioner to converse with. I use EM in my extensive gardens, in ponds...
Thanks, Heidi. EM has served me well for the past 5 years. I'm happy to have an EM practitioner to converse with. I use EM in my extensive gardens, in ponds...
What is it about farm animals that attract rats? Is it the manure? I think that you can discourage flies by adding diatamaceous earth to the feed, but...
The problem is, these are native rats that always live around here. But when, say, a chicken scratches their food all over (they do) then a bit of leftover...
I looked for a bokashi fermenter, to see if it would help, but I remembered why I didn't get one. The bokashi is *wheat bran* which I just don't want to have...
Hi Heidi, Thanks for the great explanation, so it sounds as if you need a cat, beagle or rat terrier to help you out. Of course, that would probably be...
Hi Heidi, ... or rat terrier to help you out. Of course, that would probably be another mouth to feed, and then they come with their own set of problems...
Heidi, You crack me up....LOL. After ten years of fighting the rats here, (we have chickens & pigeons and have raised goats, emu, pheasant and quail) poison...
... You should patent your idea! ... Too funny (if you're not a rat!) I bet people would be lining up to play...... ... From what I understand, it's quite...
For a really, really cheap and safe rat poison, try coke. That's right, plain old Coke. One of our blood donors said that he had rats around his commercial...
... Last night, our dog Daphne, a cattle dog mix, was going to come in for the night cuz it's pretty cold here now. But DH saw that she had what looked like...
... [snip] ... [snip] ... OK folks... I'll bite; WHAT is EM and WHAT is Biosa? Please have pity on this (apparently!) newbie and don't worry about "talking...
The poison WORKS ... the problem is, the rats eventually get used to it and then when the owls (or dogs) eat the rats, it kills the predator. Which is not what...
Hm. If coke *doesn't* work, I wonder if vodka would? Rats are purported to love alcohol too ... Actually if you made the dish deep, they'd probably drown in it...
EM stands for Effective Microorganisms. It's basically a starter culture of some pretty neat germs ... I think you'd like them. The culture smells a lot like...
Wikipedia's external links policies are biting, so the Kefir page has lost its links for finding kefir grains. Thus, I've put together a page with links to the...
EM is Effective Microorganisms discovered by Japanese farmer and researcher Teruo Higa. You can read much more about these amazing microorganisms at...
... Back home in the hills, in WV, some of my folks kept pigs around to kill the snakes. They seem to like the taste of the things, and quite possibly the fat...
I think the best website for em information is www.eminfo.info The owner, Vinny Pinto, is pretty much the EM authority and runs a yahoo group about EM. EM is...
I live in Norway and have used Vita Biosa as a starter for about a year. If i use the liquid from my previous batch to make cabbage, it doesn@t work as well,...
Hi Tove, How do you ferment cabbage with EM? How much starter do you add and what temperatures do you use? Dirk ... [Non-text portions of this message have...
I use indoor temperature, maybe around 20 to 24 degrees Celsius I use about one or two dl starter pr litre ready cabbage. I donīt measure, it has been...
Have you tried adding some salt? It should help suppress pathogens, especially if it's too warm ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
... Coke makes a good windshield cleaner too, I'm told by truck drivers. I use it sometimes on my battery cables, when away from home and it starts getting...
coke has been used for years to clean the battery acid accumulation on cables and and post connections. i had trouble with possums....they don't like moth...
