Manure Tea: Not Fit For Human Consumption 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.

Authentic Haven Brand "Natural Brew" in San Juan Capistrano is selling a unique new kind of tea: manure tea. It even comes in three flavors: Cow, Horse, and the always popular Alfalfa.

Chicken manure, the scourge of the Chesapeake Bay, has suddenly become the toast of African-violet growers and landscapers. Baked into pellets and marketed as commercial-grade fertilizer -- with ...

The federal government has been fighting pollution of the Chesapeake Bay, the nation's largest estuary, for 25 years. But harmful nutrients, particularly… ...

A study published in the Journal of Cannabis Research examined the impact of two biofertilizers (manure tea and bioinoculant) and one humic acid (HA) product on cannabis growth. The researchers ...

To make manure tea, add a few scoops of aged manure to a big bucket or tub, add water and let it sit for a day or so. Stir, strain and water in around the plants. Phosphorus is low: Add bone meal ...

For Jescah Omamo, ‘tea manure’ is like gold. It transforms her farm as she watches, a sight that is pleasing to her eyes and pocket.

Photo: Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times. P.J. Huffstutter is a staff writer for The Los Angeles Times covering food and agriculture issues. She recently wrote about how some Central California ...

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.

For Jescah Omamo, ‘tea manure’ is like gold. It transforms her farm as she watches, a sight that is pleasing to her eyes and pocket. Before she discovered this farming, she spent so much money ...