Tag: Fertilizer - Page 3
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There's Something About Dairy, Say WorldWatch
The WorldWatch Institute have published the first in a two-part series examining the potential environmental and economic impact of greater localization of food. And, as always, they've put together an interesting read for the current issue of
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How To Get Chicks
Some of the author's chickens going outside for the first timeDear Pablo, I am thinking about getting some chickens but I don't live on a farm. Can you raise chickens in the suburbs without causing trouble in the neighborhood?I am hearing of more and
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Green Eyes On: Start a Compost Pile With Your Gutter Cleanings
It’s spring and, like it or not, that means spring cleaning for you and millions of other like-minded home dwellers out there. It’s time to cleanse the windowsills, banish the dust bunnies, purge the closet and…well, whatever else it
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Pee Power! Recycling Urine to Powder Makes Superior Fertilizer
"Night soil" has for centuries been the fertilizer of choice for healthy gardens, and at TreeHugger we've tried all the bad puns there are when writing about the art of utilizing urine
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Organic vs Local? Who Cares. Neither is Sustainable.
While last year we were debating whether it's better to buy organic or local (or both), an article in Mother Jones now reports that we have even bigger fish to fry when it comes to our food production. While dreams of our future
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Crop Biodiversity A Cure for Ocean Dead Zones?
Biodiversity is the variation of life within any system. High biodiversity is a trademark of ecosystems that are healthy, resilient to stress, and those that provide valuable ecosystem services like clean air, water, or food.
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Big Water Trouble in Leaky China
Photo via China Daily News China's "Dead Lakes" Keep Reappearing Two years ago, an algae outbreak in China's renowned Tai Lake sounded a global environmental alarm. Now, despite China spending billions of dollars on lake cleanup efforts, some algae has
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Apparently Human Hair is a Great Green Fertilizer
Cut Hair to Go Please, I'm a Gardener Those of us that compost know that human hair, as well as cat & dog hair, is safe to throw in the heap. But Discovery News reports on a study published in the journal HortTechnology that shows that human hair might
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21st Century Green Farming with Wireless Soil Sensors
The goal would be to
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Organic Agriculture Wrongly Accused As Prominent Cause Of Heavy Metal Accumulation In Soil
Yellow journalism is expected from supermarket tabloids and local television news casts, but the once venerated Slate shocked with a recent headline. "Rusted Roots: Is Organic Agriculture Polluting Our Food With Heavy
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Earth Weave Craft Carpets of Wool and Hemp
I wasn't sure if we’d covered Earth Weave’s wool and hemp carpets, but I was wrong. Years ago, Kara had mentioned them in a nice little primer on Finding Solutions to Toxic Carpeting. What makes Earth Weave noteworthy is that they claim their Bio-Floor
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Our Oceans Are Dying and We're At Fault
A very interesting Los Angeles Times article on the state of the oceans sounds like something out of a horror movie - fishermen come in contact with a spongy weed, only to break out into a painful rash that won't go away and
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Eat Non-US Grown Hemp for Better Health
While the US is still the only developed nation where growing hemp is illegal, you can buy products manufactured with hemp here and this week I tried out some products by Manitoba Harvest, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba,
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How Does Organic Winemaking Work? Part II
When we left
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How Does Organic Winemaking Work? PART I
I recently traveled to Bonterra, maker of the most "wine
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Try Prairie Organic Vodka In Your Next Screwdriver
Straight from Minnesota comes Prairie Organic Vodka, made from a coop of over 900 farmers "who share ownership of the brand." Prairie describes their vodka as "beautifully smooth. With hints of melon and pear on the nose,
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A Dung Deal: Making Power from Poop
At a properly run farm, "nothing is waste. Everything is a resource. It's just a matter of harvesting." With 750 cows, Laurie Stanton's farm has a lot of manure to harvest. Martin Mittelstaedt writes in
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Waste Not, Want Not: The Future of Toilets
We have written before about the need to change our waste water system that mixes black and gray water and flushes it away; commenters were not impressed and wrote "Composting toilets are NEVER going to make it
