This is my first VLog whereby I capture my thoughts of the day whilst I'm working on our small acreage doing daily tasks to stay as self-sufficient as possible. Today's task is composting down "green" ...

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. — When done right, composting manure and livestock is an environmentally sound way to dispose of animals and their waste, according to Mary Keena, North Dakota State University ...

Butler Tech students are learning a lot from a load of horse crap piling up here at the green engineering program.

Having a green manure crop also avoids the problems that can come when soil is bare for too long – it can dry out, lose its structure and become lifeless as all those organisms previously in the ...

Growing a green manure in winter prevents soil from having nutrients washed away by rain or snow, and some varieties have a fibrous root system that helps to give the soil structure. Clover is a ...

When Darrell Harden learned about it, he knew there was a way he could bank on his big idea to create Moo-trients Composted Cow Manure. “With the dairy comes lots of manure,” Harden explained.