#manure — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #manure, aggregated by home.social.
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Local gardener showcases work, provides advice over social media | News https://www.allforgardening.com/1754331/local-gardener-showcases-work-provides-advice-over-social-media-news/ #agriculture #botany #Broccoli #cabbage #cauliflower #culture #food #garden #gardening #horticulture #Kingdoms(biology) #lettuce #manure #Mulch #organisms #plant #PlantAgriculture #plants #PlantsAndHumans #PrimarySectorOfTheEconomy #Tomato #vegetables
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Which mulch should you be using for your garden? – The Irish News https://www.allforgardening.com/1647939/which-mulch-should-you-be-using-for-your-garden-the-irish-news/ #bark #compost #garden #gardening #manure #Mulch #slate #Straw #uk
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6 Ways #GoatFarming Impacts the Environment That Support #Sustainability
Excerpts: "Goats produce significantly less #methane than #cattle, emitting approximately 5 kg of methane annually compared to 70-120 kg from cows. Their efficient digestive systems extract more nutrients from fibrous plant material while generating fewer greenhouse gases. This lower methane output makes goats a more climate-friendly protein source, especially when raised on marginal lands unsuitable for crop production.
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"Goats offer a chemical-free alternative for controlling #InvasivePlant species that threaten native #ecosystems. Their unique browsing habits target woody plants and weeds that other livestock avoid, effectively reducing invasives like #kudzu, poison ivy, and multiflora rose without #herbicides. You’ll find that targeted goat grazing preserves soil health and protects beneficial insects and microorganisms that chemical treatments typically harm.
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"Goat #manure offers exceptional #composting potential due to its pellet form and balanced nutrient profile. When properly composted, these droppings transform into valuable organic fertilizer rich in nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. The composting process eliminates pathogens while preserving beneficial microorganisms that enhance soil structure. You’ll find that goat manure composts faster than cow manure—typically ready in 2-3 months versus 4-6 months for cattle waste."
Learn more:
https://www.farmstandapp.com/67170/6-ways-goat-farming-impacts-the-environment/#SolarPunkSunday #AnimalProducts #Goats #GoatMilk #ClimateChange
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Robin on a pile of manure
Rotkelchen auf einem Misthaufen#rotkelchen #robin #ErithacusRubecula #Mist #Manure #Dung #Nature #photography #fujifilm
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Stripping out the stable at the far end of the big barn. It's not very nice in there.
But a real treasure! Half a meter of compressed dung mixed with hay. Excellent fertilizer for crops.
Not sure if horse or cow. I think it must've been cows kept here last, long ago.
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CW: Flying Manure
Ah, the quiet dignity of the country life.
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As #NewHampshire summers grow drier, farmers evolve to cope
by Molly Rains, September 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM EDT
Excerpt: "Some more analog farming techniques are also crucial for drought resilience, Mathur said. A foundational element of soil health is related to how much organic material it contains, a measure boosted by additives like #compost, #manure, or #CoverCrops. In addition to adding nutrients to the soil, these materials also cling to water, helping keep soil damp and cool in times of limited rainfall, she said.
"Once organic materials are present in the soil, they can be retained for longer with methods like #NoTill farming or #ReducedTill farming, in which farmers refrain as much as possible from plowing their fields. Chewing up a field before planting a crop adds air to the soil, fueling the decomposition of the important organic matter within, Delisle said. While no-till and reduced-till farming isn’t a good fit for every crop, he added, many New Hampshire farmers have had success using the method with the common local crops of corn and pumpkins.
"Preserving the organic matter in New Hampshire’s soil is important not only in times of drought but also, Delisle said, in times of heavy rain and flooding, when farm equipment can compress fields. This compacts the soil and makes it less hospitable to plants.
" 'Soils with higher organic matter in them have the capacity to spring back once they’re pressed down, and that’s an important factor in the resiliency of that soil,' Delisle said."
Learn more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hampshire-summers-grow-drier-farmers-090040658.html#SolarPunkSunday
#ClimateChangeAgriculture
#ClimateChange #Composting #ClimateChangeAdaptation #Resiliency -
As #NewHampshire summers grow drier, farmers evolve to cope
by Molly Rains, September 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM EDT
Excerpt: "Some more analog farming techniques are also crucial for drought resilience, Mathur said. A foundational element of soil health is related to how much organic material it contains, a measure boosted by additives like #compost, #manure, or #CoverCrops. In addition to adding nutrients to the soil, these materials also cling to water, helping keep soil damp and cool in times of limited rainfall, she said.
"Once organic materials are present in the soil, they can be retained for longer with methods like #NoTill farming or #ReducedTill farming, in which farmers refrain as much as possible from plowing their fields. Chewing up a field before planting a crop adds air to the soil, fueling the decomposition of the important organic matter within, Delisle said. While no-till and reduced-till farming isn’t a good fit for every crop, he added, many New Hampshire farmers have had success using the method with the common local crops of corn and pumpkins.
"Preserving the organic matter in New Hampshire’s soil is important not only in times of drought but also, Delisle said, in times of heavy rain and flooding, when farm equipment can compress fields. This compacts the soil and makes it less hospitable to plants.
" 'Soils with higher organic matter in them have the capacity to spring back once they’re pressed down, and that’s an important factor in the resiliency of that soil,' Delisle said."
Learn more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hampshire-summers-grow-drier-farmers-090040658.html#SolarPunkSunday
#ClimateChangeAgriculture
#ClimateChange #Composting #ClimateChangeAdaptation #Resiliency -
As #NewHampshire summers grow drier, farmers evolve to cope
by Molly Rains, September 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM EDT
Excerpt: "Some more analog farming techniques are also crucial for drought resilience, Mathur said. A foundational element of soil health is related to how much organic material it contains, a measure boosted by additives like #compost, #manure, or #CoverCrops. In addition to adding nutrients to the soil, these materials also cling to water, helping keep soil damp and cool in times of limited rainfall, she said.
"Once organic materials are present in the soil, they can be retained for longer with methods like #NoTill farming or #ReducedTill farming, in which farmers refrain as much as possible from plowing their fields. Chewing up a field before planting a crop adds air to the soil, fueling the decomposition of the important organic matter within, Delisle said. While no-till and reduced-till farming isn’t a good fit for every crop, he added, many New Hampshire farmers have had success using the method with the common local crops of corn and pumpkins.
"Preserving the organic matter in New Hampshire’s soil is important not only in times of drought but also, Delisle said, in times of heavy rain and flooding, when farm equipment can compress fields. This compacts the soil and makes it less hospitable to plants.
" 'Soils with higher organic matter in them have the capacity to spring back once they’re pressed down, and that’s an important factor in the resiliency of that soil,' Delisle said."
Learn more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hampshire-summers-grow-drier-farmers-090040658.html#SolarPunkSunday
#ClimateChangeAgriculture
#ClimateChange #Composting #ClimateChangeAdaptation #Resiliency -
As #NewHampshire summers grow drier, farmers evolve to cope
by Molly Rains, September 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM EDT
Excerpt: "Some more analog farming techniques are also crucial for drought resilience, Mathur said. A foundational element of soil health is related to how much organic material it contains, a measure boosted by additives like #compost, #manure, or #CoverCrops. In addition to adding nutrients to the soil, these materials also cling to water, helping keep soil damp and cool in times of limited rainfall, she said.
"Once organic materials are present in the soil, they can be retained for longer with methods like #NoTill farming or #ReducedTill farming, in which farmers refrain as much as possible from plowing their fields. Chewing up a field before planting a crop adds air to the soil, fueling the decomposition of the important organic matter within, Delisle said. While no-till and reduced-till farming isn’t a good fit for every crop, he added, many New Hampshire farmers have had success using the method with the common local crops of corn and pumpkins.
"Preserving the organic matter in New Hampshire’s soil is important not only in times of drought but also, Delisle said, in times of heavy rain and flooding, when farm equipment can compress fields. This compacts the soil and makes it less hospitable to plants.
" 'Soils with higher organic matter in them have the capacity to spring back once they’re pressed down, and that’s an important factor in the resiliency of that soil,' Delisle said."
Learn more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hampshire-summers-grow-drier-farmers-090040658.html#SolarPunkSunday
#ClimateChangeAgriculture
#ClimateChange #Composting #ClimateChangeAdaptation #Resiliency -
As #NewHampshire summers grow drier, farmers evolve to cope
by Molly Rains, September 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM EDT
Excerpt: "Some more analog farming techniques are also crucial for drought resilience, Mathur said. A foundational element of soil health is related to how much organic material it contains, a measure boosted by additives like #compost, #manure, or #CoverCrops. In addition to adding nutrients to the soil, these materials also cling to water, helping keep soil damp and cool in times of limited rainfall, she said.
"Once organic materials are present in the soil, they can be retained for longer with methods like #NoTill farming or #ReducedTill farming, in which farmers refrain as much as possible from plowing their fields. Chewing up a field before planting a crop adds air to the soil, fueling the decomposition of the important organic matter within, Delisle said. While no-till and reduced-till farming isn’t a good fit for every crop, he added, many New Hampshire farmers have had success using the method with the common local crops of corn and pumpkins.
"Preserving the organic matter in New Hampshire’s soil is important not only in times of drought but also, Delisle said, in times of heavy rain and flooding, when farm equipment can compress fields. This compacts the soil and makes it less hospitable to plants.
" 'Soils with higher organic matter in them have the capacity to spring back once they’re pressed down, and that’s an important factor in the resiliency of that soil,' Delisle said."
Learn more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hampshire-summers-grow-drier-farmers-090040658.html#SolarPunkSunday
#ClimateChangeAgriculture
#ClimateChange #Composting #ClimateChangeAdaptation #Resiliency -
How your coffee grounds are being recycled with animal poo to help grow gardens across Victoria’s zoos https://www.allforgardening.com/1425936/how-your-coffee-grounds-are-being-recycled-with-animal-poo-to-help-grow-gardens-across-victorias-zoos/ #coffee #compost #emissions #garden #gardening #giraffes #manure #MelbourneZoo #methane #recycling #reground #SustainabilityVictoria #Waste #ZoosVictoria
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So, my neighbor (who is on our town's select board) made the excellent suggestion that places that are more rural should invest in providing low-cost or free composters for folks to compost their own food waste (something that #ecomaine encourages)! Some more urban areas use #GarbageToGarden or #WeCompostIt services [see next post] to deal with food waste, which is sometimes where #Agricycle gets involved! #EcoMaine has been partnering with Agricycle since 2016!
Ecomaine Launches Food Waste Recovery Service
Maine Public | By Patty Wight
Published September 7, 2016"Open up a refrigerator and the chances of finding limp lettuce or soggy squash are pretty high. Here in the U.S., it’s likely that this food will find its way into the garbage — according to the USDA, at least 30 percent of the nation’s food supply is wasted.
"A new program launched Wednesday by ecomaine aims to get that food out of the trash and give it a second life as #compost or energy.
"When confronted with produce past its prime, says ecomaine’s CEO Kevin Roche, there’s really one major roadblock that steers people toward dropping it in the trash versus a compost bucket.
" 'The ‘ick’ factor is what I call it,' he says.
"Rotten food is messy, it smells and it attracts fruit flies. But Roche says ecomaine now has a unique way to manage the ick factor: by sealing that food waste in a clear plastic bag.
" 'You go to the grocery store, and when you buy your oranges or your head of broccoli, and the first thing you usually do is put it in a clear bag. And we feel that could be an avenue for us to contain the ick factor and get a second use out of that plastic bag,' he says.
"Starting Wednesday, ecomaine accepts food waste knotted up in plastic bags. Ecomaine doesn’t collect the bags itself. It consolidates waste picked up by commercial services, such as Garbage to Garden or #WeCompostIt!, at a cost of about $55 a ton.
"On Wednesday morning, a collection truck from #AgriCycleEnergy unloads a giant salad of rotten corn, peppers, tomatoes and other produce at ecomaine’s facility in Portland.
" 'We’re collecting from restaurants, colleges, hospitals, and a variety of other generators of food waste,' says Dan Bell, manager at Agri-Cycle Energy in #ExeterMaine, where all of this produce consolidated at ecomaine will eventually go.
" 'A special machine at Agri-Cycle Energy removes the plastic bags, which are returned to ecomaine to be burned for electricity. The food waste, meanwhile, is blended with an equal amount of cow #manure from a nearby dairy farm, then heated and churned for about 30 days using a process called anaerobic digestion.
" 'We have two large domes, and it’s essentially enclosed, so we’re capturing all of the gases in the process of breaking down food waste,' Bell says.
"The #biogas is used to produce heat and electricity. And the food waste, he says Bell, turns into #fertilizer and animal bedding.
" 'This is material that’s been in the waste stream forever. And it always will be. And it’ll always be something that has to be handled. But pulling it out and removing it and source separating it allows companies like ours and other #digesters across the country to put that material to work for us, versus just sitting in a landfill,' he says.
"Because food generally doesn’t break down in landfills. A couple years ago, Roche says ecomaine dug down into one of its landfills.
" 'We found chicken breasts that were 25 years old, tomatoes, Ruffles potato chips that were 25 years old,' he says.
"Roche says businesses and consumers can prevent food waste through correct planning. But when lost or forgotten food is discovered in the dark recesses of a fridge, that’s where ecomaine’s food waste recovery program comes in.
"Initially, he says, it won’t account for a huge chunk of what ecomaine processes, which amounts to 170,000 tons of trash and 45,000 tons of recycling per year.
" 'Even if we can get upwards of five tons a year, we feel that would be a good start to our program,' Roche says.
"It’s an important step, he says, toward reaching Maine’s statewide recycling goal of 50 percent by 2021."
[I'm wondering how close Maine is to that goal?]
#SolarpunkSunday #Digesters #Composting #ReducingWaste #Landfills #Maine #Recycling #WasteToEnergy #Compost
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I finally got around to planting carrots in a pot. Nantes Half Long.The bottom soil is pretty dry so it's soaking in a tub overnight. I picked up the potted marigolds that were spread about the garden, I have 10 feet of them, or 22 plus 1 tomato volunteer and 1 clump of oregano. The two squash beds are ready for planting with most of the lumpy goose manure having soaked up the water and softened.
#gardening #GrowYourOwn #marigolds #RaisedBeds #manure #garden #May28
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(2/x) Large #dairy operations managed to turn costly #manure into money—with biodigesters: Bacteria break down manure & generate #methane, biodigesters trap it to produce #biogas. Public money & assistance are used to support & develop #biodigester infrastructure: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/392881/dairy-biogas-manure-digester
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CW: Dairy manure 🧵
We should contain industrial methods to the North:
"The diversity of #manure management practices on #dairy farms is high, with #intensification favoring liquid manure management. This trend increases the potential for both #CH4 and #N2O emissions, and the need for mitigation."
"In warmer climates the CH4 #mitigation potential and relative importance of manure treatment technologies would be greater."
https://www.journalofdairyscience.org/article/S0022-0302(17)31116-5/fulltext
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@RolfBly @hanscees the current #Dutch government wants to create anarchy to be able to negiotiate better deals with . @EUCouncil
Destroying #biodiversity and drinking water in the proces. #campina and #bbb Nazi's
The Dutch ministry of #agriculture abolishes rules to curb in #nitrate and #manure problems and willfully poisons the environment further
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Commission wants to ease rules on use of processed manure for farming https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/commission-wants-to-ease-rules-on-use-of-processed-manure-for-farming/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #farmerprotests #farmersprotests #livestockmanure #manure
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Commission wants to ease rules on use of processed manure for farming https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/commission-wants-to-ease-rules-on-use-of-processed-manure-for-farming/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #farmerprotests #farmersprotests #livestockmanure #manure
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Commission wants to ease rules on use of processed manure for farming https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/commission-wants-to-ease-rules-on-use-of-processed-manure-for-farming/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #farmerprotests #farmersprotests #livestockmanure #manure
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Intensive #pig farming uses up scarce water in #drought-hit Catalonia, an #unsustainable approach. In Europe's top #pork-producing region such systems also cause nitrate #pollution due to excessive dumping of #manure, a polluting agent: https://www.politico.eu/article/catalonia-osona-spain-water-crisis-intensive-pig-farm-worsens-impact-epic-drought/ #water #nitrate
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New Zealand Freshwater Study Sounds Alarm Over E Coli [and other] Pollution Levels [water quality]
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/30/new-zealand-water-study-e-coli-pollution-levels-high-our-land-and-water-report <-- shared media article
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https://ourlandandwater.nz/outputs/research-brief-current-state-of-water-contaminants-compared-to-bottom-lines/ <-- shared technical report
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #waterquality #NewZealand #water #watersecurity #farming #agriculture #spatialanalysis #freshwater #waterresources #contaminants #pollution #dairyfarming #ecoli #sediment #TDS #nitrogen #phosphorus #erosion #urbanplanning #extremeweather #waterways #humanimpact #fertiliser #stock #manure #urine #animalwaste #effluent #cattle #landuse #environmental #social #economy #foodsecurity -
" Wetsus opened a second PhD call for this year. This time looking for Masters graduates with affinity for modeling biologically activated #carbonfilters, improving skating ice, valorizing #manure, biodegradable flocculants, monitoring micropollutants, #PFAS removal, or engineering biological activated carbon. https://phdpositionswetsus.eu for all info and how to apply!"
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Berlin mulls asking EU for derogation on fertilisers https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/berlin-mulls-asking-eu-for-derogation-on-fertilisers/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #fertilisers #Germany #manure #nitrate #nitratepollution