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 ...

What are the benefits of raising chickens? In a word, poop! Learn how to put chicken manure as fertilizer to use in your garden. Fresh, nutritious eggs and homegrown roast chicken dinners are reason ...

A successful garden doesn’t start at the garden center—it starts with resourcefulness. Rich soil builds strong plants, and strong plants deliver better harvests, but bagged fertilizer costs add up ...

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 ...

A natural, plentiful byproduct of the poultry industry has proven to be an effective fertilizer for use in commercial marigold production. Researchers report that chicken litter-based fertilizers can ...

When Julie Lay’s neighbors allowed sludge from a poultry processing plant to be spread over their fields, it was supposed to be a “beneficial use” of the material as a fertilizer. It didn’t feel very ...

CRYSTAL SPRINGS, MS—Recent movements aimed at managing environmental impacts of agriculture have spurred interest in the development and use of organic and natural fertilizers for commercial ...