Are there any type of animal fertilizers in organic farming?
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Question by topakat11: Are there any type of animal fertilizers in organic farming?
My sister read something online that organic farms are allowed to use animal fertilizers. If anyone knows anything about this please let me know. Thank you.
foodvfan makes a good point. The reason why it concerns me is I want to get away from that as far as possible. I want to grow my own garden one day and I live near a organic farm that only uses vegetables and chicken manure. That’s as close as I can get for now.
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6 Responses to Are there any type of animal fertilizers in organic farming?
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fish meal is very good fertilizer for strawberry, make it sweeter. bone meal is the fertilizer you put in spring for your plants in NE. there’s bulb-tone etc. if you go to any garden center and ask them, you’ll get lots of information.
tigerlilyinparis
October 12, 2011 at 4:40 am
you do know what fertilizer is right? Falls out of their butt… ringing any bells?
frank s
October 12, 2011 at 5:37 am
Some places even use blood from the slaughter houses to fertilize their crops…
sarch_uk
October 12, 2011 at 5:47 am
They chop up herring, after removing the roe, and they put it on crops. ts
Tom Servo
October 12, 2011 at 6:35 am
Yes, it is a natural fertilizer so it is allowed under the organic guidelines. Fish, all types of “poop”, and bone meal are excellent for plant growth! I use pasteurized cow dung–great stuff. Just five tomato plants have yielded so many tomatoes we put up about 10 gallons of my special pasta sauce!
Teresa
October 12, 2011 at 6:58 am
Why does this concern you? If you are eating vegetables they were planted in the ground somewhere. Go spend some time on a farm during plow season, field mice, chipmunks, even some rabbits are killed whenever those big farm plows pass over. Animals hear stuff above ground all the time and burrow in when they hear something coming so they get chopped up with the farm equipment that plants you veggies. Yeah I know someone will come along after me and say they kill “less” and in the same breath turn around and say eating meat is “murder” well if that’s true, so is eating vegetables farmed in the ground and because animals living there died so you could get your salad grown. If you feel it is “murder” then you are a part of it. So what if it’s “less” to some one who thinks it’s murder. There have been several serial killers, do you view the ones that kill less more favorably? This is why most have a problem with vegetarians posting here and calling them killers, they are hypocrites. Something dies for you to eat no matter what you eat.
foodtvfan
October 12, 2011 at 7:37 am