(Colleen Zacharias) Each spring, Braun sources his composted cow manure by the truckload from a property owner near ...

Having never built a house before, Dan decided his first would be his dream home — a sustainable, off-grid hemp house in Tasmania, rendered with a horse poo mix and with an outdoor composting toilet.

Farmyard manure is a valuable resource in any grassland system. For an organic farm whose only other input sources are ...

LAVEEN, AZ — Dozens of residents in Laveen came out to a community meeting with Maricopa County and City of Phoenix leaders Thursday night to voice concerns over a composting operation in Laveen.

Pro Tip: A simple rule of thumb is to make sure the compost pile is approximately 2/3 “brown” materials and 1/3 “green” materials. Note: Manure is not recommended for home composting piles. There are ...

A hypothetical “fifth force” could tug on asteroids, if it exists. But the asteroid Bennu shows no signs that its orbit has been tweaked by such a force. That sets a ceiling on how strong a ...

In the current study, high-throughput amplicon sequencing analysis was used to obtain a deep understanding of bacterial population dynamics during thermophilic composting process of consortia with ...

Tensions are rising in California’s agricultural heartland over state subsidies for manure-based biogas that are meant to help reduce planet-warming emissions but that environmental groups and ...

Renewable natural gas is an industry term for captured methane. “The facilities capture animal manure from partner sites and convert it into renewable natural gas, fertilizer and water.

That means about 5% of the nation’s food waste is composted, with the rest ending up in landfills, where food is the most commonly found material. In landfills, food waste decomposes much slower ...

This is the main reason we composters have access to so much horse manure. Composting, particularly hot composting (over 55o c) kills parasitic worms and their eggs. However, even with regular manure ...

FIRTH, Neb. (KLKN) – People who live near Prairieland Dairy outside of Firth say the compost is putting off an unbearable stench. “It’s always the joke of, ‘When you smell those smells ...