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 ...

The comeback of backyard chicken-keeping is all about getting back to sustainable living. Each chicken not only gives you a fresh egg daily but also leaves you with quite a bit of manure - like a ...

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 ...

Manure often is dubbed black gold by gardeners for the wealth of organic nutrients and microbes it provides the soil. There are numerous types of manures — cow, horse, poultry, pig, goat, sheep and ...

Bob Murphy's Double Trouble Farms may be the most cutting-edge poultry operation on the Eastern Shore right now. But the significance of the farm in Rhodesdale is not the poultry itself. It's the ...