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To: Ish who wrote (2147)	10/1/2006 5:57:58 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

People used to come from miles around to get Uncle Herby's rhubarb that grew so good out behind his out house.

To: Ish who wrote (2147)	10/2/2006 7:31:56 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

You don't have to use animal manure as fertilizer in organic gardening. You can use "green manure" (grow a cover crop and then till it in), you can use compost, you can use mineral based fertilizers made from different kinds of crushed rock. All animal waste was originally plant material, so all the animal did was metabolize part of it and concentrate the rest of it. These days, when so many people who raise animals for their meat feed them antibiotics and hormones regularly, the manure from those animals isn't suitable for "organic" gardening, anyway, in my opinion. The hormones and antibiotics don't break down entirely in the body, and last for a long time in the environment. The reason people use it is because we raise animals for meat, and for labor (not so much for labor anymore except for horses) and the by products are there anyway, and it's profligate to throw it away when it's useful. But nobody raises animals just to have manure. If you took the plant material you were going to feed to the animals, and composted it instead, that would work even better for fertilizer.