From Humanure to ZooPoo, you’ll find all our articles on manure here. If you’re new to composting, we recommend starting with
Using Manure in Compost: How to Turn S**t Into Black Gold.
Every morning, Gill Thomas collects dog poop bags from the bins outside her local park and takes them home. It didn’t begin this way. In spring 2025, a resident flagged what Thomas describes as a “grot spot” – hundreds of littered dog waste bags dumped along a rural lane beside a Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust nature […]
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Did you know that the US and EU each produce a whopping 1.4 billion tonnes of manure a year? * In short, that’s an extraordinary amount of organic material that, if used correctly, can enrich our soils and nourish our plants in extraordinary ways. There’s so much around that it’s often free (if you collect
Manure v. Compost: Learn the Difference! Read More »
Boy, do we produce a lot of manure. In the EU alone we produce 1400 million tonnes of manure, and the USA produces a similar amount. (That’s just the animals, humanure excluded.) This causes problems – think methane being released into the atmosphere, for example. But it also has the potential for some serious benefits
Use Manure, But Make Sure You Compost It First, Say Scientists. Here’s Why… Read More »
17th April 2023 In an exciting new initiative, Tend, a sustainable product brand, has partnered with the Buffalo Zoo to produce compost made entirely from the manure and bedding of 14 different species of hooved herbivores, including rhinos, giraffes, and zebras. The combination of high-nitrogen exotic animal poop and carbon-rich aged stall bedding, straw, and
Zoo Animals’ Poop Turned into High-Quality Compost – Available for Sale Now! Read More »
To grow food in our modern civilization, we mine phosphate and potassium. We ship them across the world. We lose some, and use a lot of energy, in the process. These minerals are essential for making artificial fertilizers – fertilizers that have changed the world! Multiple times we have feared that our world faced mass
How Humanure Could Change The World (If We Don’t Turn Up Our Noses!) Read More »
I have a good few books on compost in my library, and the now stained and worn copy Humanure Handbook, Shit in a Nutshell is one of my favorites. Firstly, there’s the breadth of the book. It could easily have been a narrow polemic on the need for humanure, but instead, the book takes you
Humanure Handbook Review – You’ll Never Think About S**t In the Same Way Again Read More »
Manure may smell, but as a source of fertility for your soil, it’s hard to beat. It’s also one of the best compost materials you can use. Despite that, there are problems with manure that you need to be aware of. You’ll also find that different animal manures have different properties, and need to be
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A few years ago, a man knocked on my house door when I was at work. My wife answered. ‘I’ve got a trailer full of shit here for you.” (It was a big trailer.) She wasn’t very happy. When she asked me why I hadn’t asked her first, I asked her if she would have
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