Chicken manure, often called "black gold," provides one of the most nutrient-rich boosts for your soil. Different types of chicken manure exist, with variations in quality and composition. You can ...

A reader wonders about the brewing process for making manure tea to use as fertilizer. Gary writes: My neighbor raises chickens, and she has an abundance of chicken manure that she is willing to share ...

The following is an excerpt from Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind by Gene Logsdon (Chelsea Green, 2010). In his humorous, anecdotal manifesto, Logsdon imparts how to transform farm, pet and ...

Set aside your coffee and breakfast, gentle reader; the following is not fit for mealtime conversation. Fall is approaching, and with it a ritual of the garden: manuring. We pile it on to improve the ...

How many chickens do I need to keep on winter garden beds to leave the optimum amount of manure for next season’s crops without “overfertilizing” with chicken manure? Chicken manure is high in ...

Whether you are a Louisiana poultry farmer or just keep chickens in your back yard, there may soon be a solution to the vexing problem of disposing of chicken waste, thanks to a research project ...

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 ...

I keep a running file in my office of questions, comments and horticulturally focused quizzical ruminations that get sent my way. Sometimes I save them because they might make for a good column.

Scripps Howard News Service Call me crazy, but I just love the smell of horse manure. In fact, I’ve been up to my dark brown eyeballs in manure all my life. From a childhood among horses to a career ...