On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:17:56 -0600, Ashley Moran  
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> Well you two are still alive so I guess it must be pretty safe....Sounds  
> like soil is pretty safe after all.  I was expecting a few horror  
> stories :)

I don't have a problem with a bit of soil.  But be careful of relying on  
anecdotal evidence.  You could argue that eating processed grains must be  
OK since lots of people do it every day and don't fall over.  At least not  
immediately.

> We have a vegetable compost heap that is home to a decent size family of  
> voles.  If we had any manure, would you add it to this heap?  Or start a  
> manure heap?

I just throw everything into one big pile.  The vegetable matter for the  
carbon, and the manure for the nitrogen.  It seems to work out OK.

It reminds me of a strange occurrence, though.  Last summer we bought a  
pineapple at the grocery store.  Cut the top off, ate the rest, and threw  
the top on the compost pile.  To my complete surprise, it took root and  
started growing.  I dug it up and put it in a pot, so now I have a  
pineapple growing in our living room.  I looked it up online, and  
apparently you can do that and grow yourself a pineapple.  It takes two or  
three years for it to flower and fruit, but supposedly it will.  (Yeah, I  
know, probably not paleo.)

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   Robert Kesterson
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