I'm a poo chaser. You see, I have a number of animals in my Oakland backyard - a pair of Nigerian dwarf goats and a herd of rabbits - that spend an inordinate amount of time making poo. Every week, I ...

The windrows at J&K Dairy in Sunnyside look and smell like mounds of rich, loamy earth. The only visible difference between these windrows and other regularly composted piles on the dairy are a ...

Lead-contaminated soil in urban parks, gardens, and schoolyards could be made safer by adding composted organic waste, new research suggests. The tactic could reduce the quantity of the toxic metal ...

Manure is an organic fertilizer made from the dung of domestic livestock including horses, cows, and poultry. It may also contain urine and bedding material like straw or sawdust. Manure is an ...

Adding composted biosolids rich with iron, manganese and organic matter to a lead-contaminated home garden in Baltimore appears to have bound the lead so it is less likely to be absorbed by the bodies ...

Question: I got a load of “composted” horse manure for my garden from my friend. It looks to me that it isn’t really composted all the way as there are “apples” of manure in it. Can I just put it in ...

FLORENCE — The Colorado Burial Preserve accepted Colorado's first composted human remains into their burial grounds. Participants were invited to work the soil back in the earth by spreading it over a ...

When Dennis Cunningham was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he wanted his death to reflect the values he lived by. A committed civil rights lawyer, he defended the Black Panthers, AIDS protestors, and ...