How did people manage to garden a century ago before megastores? They couldn't just run down to the store and pick up a bag of Miracle-Gro. They had to do it the old-fashioned, organic way: with ...

A reader wonders about the brewing process for making manure tea to use as fertilizer. Gary writes: My neighbor raises chickens, and she has an abundance of chicken manure that she is willing to share ...

It may not be the first thing you want to get your hands dirty with in the garden, but as a fertilizer, manure is something you’ll want to be up to your boots in. It may not be the first thing you ...

Effects of chicken manure tea (CMT) and vermicompost tea (VCT) as soil drench on vegetative growth, herb yield, essential oil content, total phenolics, total flavonoids and antioxidant activity of ...

The screen door slams shut when Annie Haven walks outside to greet us on her dirt drive at the Haven Ranch in Murrieta. It’s a sound she doesn’t hear with the other din of daily life – cattle mooing, ...

If you are trying to stay away from chemical fertilizers, stack the functions of the plants and animals on your property and save money then these simple fertilizer teas are just for you. There are ...

After two decades of raising chickens at her farm on Maryland's eastern shore, Carole Morison quit last year, in part because she was tired of polluting the Chesapeake Bay. "I'll be the first one to ...

It's called tea. It comes in a tea bag. You even put it in water and let it steep. But Starbucks is not likely to serve these flavors any time soon. Authentic Haven Brand "Natural Brew" in San Juan ...