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 ...

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.

Questions are answered by experts at the Oregon Health Authority, other state agencies or community partners. Questions and answers are republished by permission. Q: Regarding H5N1 (aka Highly ...

Discover how Mark from Self Sufficient Me creates a productive chicken compost system to enrich soil for planting garlic in raised beds. This step-by-step guide covers preparing a compost bin using ...

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 ...

For folks who don’t farm or garden, a malodorous pile of manure is usually a fly-attracting eyesore to be avoided. But most farmers and gardeners won’t turn up their noses at such a deposit; where ...