Not All Fertilizers Are Created Equal There are a lot of organic fertilizers on the market, so how do you choose? Take a closer look at the ingredients. Many fertilizers labeled "organic" use cheap chicken manure fillers that may contain GMO's and pathogens….
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How Dr. Earth Soils & Fertilizers Work
Feed the Soil That Feeds Your Plants© By: Milo Shammas, Founder & Formulator Our fertilizer and soil blends include not only the nutrients your plants need but also TruBiotic®, five champion strains of beneficial soil microbes plus ecto…
Organic Fertilizer Performance Report
Performance of Dr. Earth®, Premium Gold All Purpose Fertilizer By: Milo Shammas, Founder & Formulator OBJECTIVE: The objective of this field trial was to compare growth performance of Dr. Earth® Premium Gold All Purpose Fertilizer with other commercially available, natural/organic all-purpose fertilizers during the…
What does GMO mean in gardening?
GMO's and Plant Health, what's the big deal? A genetically modified organism (GMO) has had its DNA decoded and manipulated to create something different than what has developed naturally. The technique used is called genetic engineering or recombinant DNA technology. Creating GMOs…
Chicken Manure In Organic Fertilizers
Can you Say "Cheap Cheap?" For the same reason that "sewage sludge" was deliberately renamed as "biosolids," plain old "chicken manure" has now been linguistically elevated on the labels of bagged "organic" soils and fertilizers. And the reason is simple; when you have an excess of something,…
The Dangers Of Chicken Manure
From the dark ages of organic gardening and up to this very day, chicken manure has been a mainstay nutrient source for plants. A quick-acting source of nitrogen, it provides fast results but dissipates quickly - requiring frequent applications to…
How Waste Pickers Help The Environment
Our Daily Choices Matter Over the past several decades, there has been a huge paradigm shift in the way most people view trash: both in the ways it is disposed of and in the ways it can be reused…
How Do Landfills Impact Groundwater?
Globally, landfills are one of the major threats to groundwater resources. There is nothing pretty about landfills except that the garbage is far away from our homes and we don't have to smell it. Municipal solid waste (MSW) disposal is…
What Are Biosolids?
The word "biosolids" sounds so deceptively benign. It's a mild, neutral sort of word that raises no alarms. And that's no accident. The word was deliberately contrived, the winner in a contest sponsored by the wastewater treatment industry to…
What Is The Organic Revolution?
There are proven methods that farmers can use worldwide to sustain profits, address hunger and malnutrition, and renew ecological health. To feed the world in the most effective manner, a vast movement of scientists, development experts, farming associations and environmentalists…