Vermicomposting earthworms help turn manure into organic fertilizer, representing a potential tool against antibiotic ...

Inexpensive to raise and insatiably hungry for trash, black soldier fly larvae are already on the menu for livestock, pets ...

Q: Last week, the article about spreading and turning under the mulched leaves and some manure made me wonder ... why “heat-treated” manure? My son lives in the valley and there is a stable where ...

A field with hog manure recently spread and incorporated into topsoil. Near Polk City, Iowa. (Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using ...

Go behind the scenes with executive editor Vernon Loeb and ICN reporters as they discuss one of the week’s top stories. Iowa raises about 23 million hogs each year. That many animals produce a lot of ...

Martha Stewart is sharing one idea she does not have in her gardening handbook. While the lifestyle expert is full of tips when it comes to growing flowers and vegetables, she wants to be even closer ...

“These coffin things and all that stuff? No way,” Stewart said Theo Wargo/Getty Martha Stewart revealed that she wants to be composed on her farm when she dies “These coffin things and all that stuff?

Want to be buried or cremated? For Martha Stewart, there is a third option: composted. The 84-year-old lifestyle guru and author recently appeared as a guest on the QVC+ and HSN+ podcast “50+ & ...

This story is a collaboration between Inside Climate News and Sentient Media. More than a thousand hogs grow fat in the enclosed shed-like structures on Gene Tinker’s farm in northeast Iowa, while a ...

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" ...

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