Stephen Robb paid a visit to Living Green, an Inishowen-based company producing around 14 million worms each year for the ...

What do earthworms eat? Most of us learn in school that earthworms are good for the soil and help maintain a healthy ...

A good rough measure is to go for equal weights. A bucket of food scraps can be pretty heavy, so it will probably be ...

Jillian Patrie | University of Minnesota Yard and Garden Extension ...

It is time to think about planting your vegetable garden to minimize the effects of increasing food bills. This week and for the next few weeks, let’s consider a landscapes that feed us.

Before planting, cow or horse manure may be applied at 25 pounds per ... like organic fertilizer may be made through the process of composting. Simply put, compost is made by alternating layers ...

The primary raw materials for his garage-sized piles of compost were the brush from his land and horse manure. However ... One of the biggest benefits of composting at home is the ability to generate ...

The Site-Built Earth Flow 4012 composting system from Green Mountain Technologies is an automated enclosed system that minimizes odors and rapidly transforms the horse manure and bedding into valuable ...

Dry lots should be well drained and not overpopulated.” Once the manure is removed from the dry lot, horse owners can consider composting the material, a process that will help to reduce pathogens, ...

Composting of deceased livestock also is legal ... a certified professional agronomist based in Shenandoah County. So can horse manure, he said, adding it's a good source of nutrients such as nitrogen ...

The bulk substrate materials used are wheat straw, chicken and horse manure (some use urea if horse ... The process of composting (first phase) takes 15 to 21 days. The compost is allowed to ...