I'm a poo chaser. You see, I have a number of animals in my Oakland backyard - a pair of Nigerian dwarf goats and a herd of rabbits - that spend an inordinate amount of time making poo. Every week, I ...

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. — When done right, composting manure and livestock is an environmentally sound way to dispose of animals and their waste, according to Mary Keena, North Dakota State University ...

Many Brooklynites don’t know that an adult horse produces close to 75 pounds of manure a day. So if (for some reason) you find yourself with 25 horses on your hands ...

Over the nearly 20 years I've written about gardening, many readers have asked about the benefits and drawbacks of using animal manures as soil amendments and fertilizers. Here are several of those ...

Anyone who raises livestock on a farmstead knows that much of animal husbandry revolves around properly handled manure. To be sure, manure is one of the greatest benefits of livestock, which is just ...

Many farmers refer to manure as “black gold” and rightly so because it adds nutrients to the soil, which helps crops grow and be more productive. In earlier times, before the advent of synthetic ...

As spring tentatively appears, gardeners prep beds for early crops and lawn guys start wanting to feed their turf. For both folks, spreading composted or aged manure is a better choice, since plants ...

How did people manage to garden a century ago before megastores? They couldn't just run down to the store and pick up a bag of Miracle-Gro. They had to do it the old-fashioned, organic way: with ...

I'm a poo chaser. You see, I have a number of animals in my Oakland backyard - a pair of Nigerian dwarf goats and a herd of rabbits - that spend an inordinate amount of time making poo. Every week, I ...