The Nomco Story
(Page 4 of 6)
March/April 1973
By the Mother Earth News editors
"Our soil conditioner is essentially earth," Nate explains, "the closest equivalent we can create to the rich humus that builds up on the forest floor at the rate of one inch of topsoil in 300 years. At NOMCO, we simply speed up nature's method by processing and composting a combination of industrial organic wastes that are plentiful in our area.
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"We try to use the purest products available. Our whey comes from the raw-milk cheese produced by the Heath Cheese Plant in East Rodman, New York. The apple pomace we use is from Homer Rebb's Burrville, New York cider mill. We get it because Homer has designed a special washer that cleans each fruit before it's pressed and we feel that anything from his mill contains the least possible residual contamination.
"Although our poultry manure does come from an egg ranch, the stilbesterol and hormones and arsenic added to the birds' feed to stimulate production is much less now than it was two years ago. The level of contamination from this source is certainly not down to zero yet, but it is acceptable.
"We refuse to buy hay and straw from any farmer who applies 2-4-D or 2-4-5T to his oats for mustard control and we will not use manure from veal operations because the drugs fed to such calves in their highly medicated milk substitutes can upset the soil's microorganisms."
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