Why Use Manure

Why Use Manure
January 3rd, 2012

Manures provide added trace elements, enzymes, vitamins and other plant growth factors. They improve soil structure and build soil humus. It greatly increases the population of beneficial and disease suppressing micro-organisms. Manures release the nutrients slowly and provide plant food over a period of months and years.

Manures provide a whole array of nutrients essential for plant and human nutrition such as vanadium, iodine, selenium, chromium and a host of vitamins and other phytochemicals. Chemical fertilizers have no beneficial micro-organisms as they destroy them and does not contain the minerals and vitamins which are essential elements.

These nutrients are only available in manure. They create more robust and healthier flowers and far more nutritious and better tasting vegetables.

Our manures provide added trace elements, enzymes, vitamins, and other plant growth factors missing in chemical fertilizers. Unlike chemical fertilizers, manures improve soil structure and increase soil workability. Manures provide slow release nutrients. Vegetables grown with manures contain fewer nitrates than chemically grown vegetables. High nitrate consumption has been proven to increase the risk of cancer. Growing with manure improves the taste, aroma (duh!), nutritional value and quality of produce. Vegetables grown with manures have been shown to have up to 12 times as many nutrients as vegetables grown with conventional soils. Further studies have shown organic vegetables contain 6X the levels of salicylic acid as found in conventionally grown vegetables. Salicylic acid (Aspirin) has been linked in other studies to provide effective protection against cancer, heart attacks and strokes. Our rich, fertile manures transform poor worn out dirt into rich and highly productive loam – no doctor visits required.