The author’s hens stay on pasture during warmer months and then overwinter inside a greenhouse. Use chicken manure in garden to boost crops’ productivity, while also utilizing a greenhouse chicken ...

Chicken manure, often called "black gold," provides one of the most nutrient-rich boosts for your soil. Different types of chicken manure exist, with variations in quality and composition. You can ...

Keep the following in mind when you use manure in your garden: Never apply fresh manure to your vegetable garden because it contains pathogens, such as E. coli, salmonella or listeria. These bacterial ...

Whether you are a Louisiana poultry farmer or just keep chickens in your back yard, there may soon be a solution to the vexing problem of disposing of chicken waste, thanks to a research project ...

While at a meeting at the Ashland Public Library a few years ago I had a question from one of my readers and they asked me if they should use old farm yard soil in their vegetable garden. A few years ...

The story takes several forms, but it always starts and ends the same: President Truman is speaking before some VIPs, either at the Washington Garden Club or the White House itself. He's explaining ...