Chicken manure could be a great addition to garden soil. Chicken waste is not waste at all, it’s actually a garden seed of gold that can be used as an organic fertiliser for lawn and garden. Hello ...

For folks who don’t farm or garden, a malodorous pile of manure is usually a fly-attracting eyesore to be avoided. But most farmers and gardeners won’t turn up their noses at such a deposit; where ...

Q. What’s wrong with my compost pile? This is a question we master gardeners hear often. Usually, the answer is straightforward, but occasionally we get some head-scratchers. This week I’ll cover some ...

One of the women I worked with in Ecuador was a composting expert. I never knew there was so much a person could learn from rotted garbage. At first I thought she was a nut — she started out her ...

Chicken waste is an excellent fertilizer, but with the growing season still weeks away it’s piling up in barns across the South. To reduce the risk of fire from spontaneous combustion, poultry experts ...

This past spring, I set out to design and maintain a sustainable garden in my backyard—and a big part of that project has involved using chickens to fertilize my soil and help process my compost pile.

Is it safe to use chicken manure on flowers? We have been told not to use it on vegetables, but we were wondering about flowers. A big pile has been given to us. A: What great fortune! That's almost ...

From Minneapolis, at the Second International Conference on Pharmaceuticals and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Water. Livestock naturally excrete large amounts of estrogen and testosterone, ...