MANHEIM, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In another effort to promote recycling and sustainable local agriculture, the eco-friendly Kreider Farms introduces a unique chicken and cow manure blend for use in ...

While at a meeting at the Ashland Public Library a few years ago I had a question from one of my readers and they asked me if they should use old farm yard soil in their vegetable garden. A few years ...

Going into the bagged soil aisle at a greenhouse gives us almost as many choices as the cereal aisle at the grocery store. Each bag of soil mix can have a place in one of your gardening projects.

Even amid the highly-prevalent chemical fertilisers use over the decades, the cultivators of hill vegetables like potato, carrot, cabbage and cauliflower still firmly feel that cow-manure is still ...

DEAR JOHN: Horse manure and cow manure are similar in nitrogen content when fresh, but when dried, or “aged,” horse manure is richer, so the first thing to consider when deciding between them is the ...

The use of cow dung as fertilizer is as common today as it was in the 1900’s. And it seems to have made a debut in recent months, perhaps due to the huge surge in fertilizer prices. But if there is ...

There’s a huge problem destroying gardens in the US. For those that aren’t familiar with the very high risk associated with putting manure or purchased compost in your gardens, you NEED to read this ...

If you're baby-stepping into composting for the first time, the do's and don'ts of what goes into the bin might seem daunting. To flatten the learning curve, we've compiled a few reference lists -- ...

The windrows at J&K Dairy in Sunnyside look and smell like mounds of rich, loamy earth. The only visible difference between these windrows and other regularly composted piles on the dairy are a ...