How did people manage to garden a century ago before megastores? They couldn't just run down to the store and pick up a bag of Miracle-Gro. They had to do it the old-fashioned, organic way: with ...

Gary writes: My neighbor raises chickens, and she has an abundance of chicken manure that she is willing to share with me for my garden. I recall that some time ago you wrote about manure tea and its ...

The Haven family has been farmers and ranchers in Southern California for 100 years. Annie Haven would like to carry on that life and business but it’s not easy as the region attracts more development ...

How did people manage to garden a century ago before megastores? They couldn’t just run down to the store and pick up a bag of Miracle-Gro. They had to do it the old-fashioned, organic way: with ...

If you are trying to stay away from chemical fertilizers, stack the functions of the plants and animals on your property and save money then these simple fertilizer teas are just for you. There are ...

Authentic Haven Brand in San Juan Capistrano is selling manure teabags. But don’t store them next to the Lipton box. Yeah, you can steep them in a large water jar, but don’t leave the resulting brew ...

Annie Haven's family has been ranching in Southern California for a hundred years but a prolonged drought has left her with too few cattle to make a living. So she's turned to selling manure tea bags.

Annie Haven's manure tea bags might appear steeped in novelty, but when it comes to brewing up business, the woman knows her you-know-what. "I didn't just look at my cows and say I'm going to sell ...

Would you like your manure transformed into tea water or potable water? That is one of the questions Jim Wallace, an environmental engineer with McLanahan Agricultural Systems, asks Midwest farmers ...