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 ...

One of the goals on our urban farm, the Bossy Hen Homestead, is to create a cycle of sustainability. This is certainly not to say that with a property as small as ours that we do not have to ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

EASTERN SHORE IS WELL POPULATED WITH CHICKENS 300 MILLION OR SO AT ANY GIVEN TIME RAISED BY FARMERS FOR BIG CHICKEN PROCESSORS. TH AATLSO MEANS A LOT OF CHICKEN MANURE A WASTE PRODUCT THAT CAN ADLE TO ...

We have recently learned students across our state are being taught a lesson in environmental education that is factually incorrect. We are concerned that students — and their parents — are being ...

Background and aims The relative proportions of phosphorus (P) forms present in manure will determine the overall availability of manure P to plants; however, the link between the forms of P in ...

The state of Maryland has been pouring millions of public dollars into private efforts to transform one of the Chesapeake Bay's biggest scourges — excess chicken waste — into something marketable. So ...