[Cheese] Cheese Digest, Vol 16, Issue 10

[Peter Næslund Møller]

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From: "Joel Plutchak" <plutchak at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: <cheese at hbd.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Cheese] Cheese Digest, Vol 16, Issue 10


> Peter <peter at naeslund.dk> wrote:
> >The lactose in the whey is great bacteria food..  The local sewage
> >processing plant usually gets around 40 tons of whey per day to 
> >keep their bacteria alive.. They had been having problems since 
> >both the slaughterhouse and bisquit factory in town closed..
> 
>    Mmmmmm, bacteria!  I wonder if that means the whey would
> be good for my composte heap?  Other than the fact that all
> that excess moisture would probably upset the balance and
> make it stinky, something that happens if I don't spread out
> and turn over the spent grain from brewing beer that I dump
> on it every month or so.

>From time to time we have to pay the farmers to take care of some of our whey ( we do make around 300 tons of whey per day* ).. They just pump it into the tank containing the wasteproducts from the livestock and use that mix to fertilize the fields..

It depends on the size of your compost heap and how much whey you make, but I guess it would work.. Dont have any compost or gardening experience apart from groeing giggleweed in the closet, so I have no clue about the plantlifes reaction to this..

/peter