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 ...

As the growing season draws to a close and your garden beds are filled with dead plants, consider adding them to your compost ...

BLACKVILLE – Necessity was the mother of invention when it comes to Humble Acres Organics in Blackville, its owners say. Chicken farmer Tim McCormick and his son, Kevin, said they trusted in the Lord ...

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 ...

Like cooking an egg, timing is everything with poultry manure, a Vermont master gardener warns this week. First-timers in the world of small-scale poultry might be tempted to shovel a week's worth of ...

Anyone who raises livestock on a farmstead knows that much of animal husbandry revolves around properly handled manure. To be sure, manure is one of the greatest benefits of livestock, which is just ...

Dan Rodricks’ recent column urged the new governor to get a large-scale poultry waste incinerator built on the Eastern Shore (“Larry Hogan has a chance to be a green governor,” Dec. 13). This awful ...