The Zoo-Doo Man - Or How to Make the Best Compost in the World!
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Article by: Jim Kennard Is your garden , Create the Perfect Patio: Finding Great Furniture soil great? Does it produce an abundant crop for you without any great effort on your part? We were once told "By the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread . . ", and with several thousand years' rain, snow, , Gardening Basics: Inspecting Your Soil wind, and crops removing the minerals from the land, we very rarely see fertile ground anymore. So, how do you get your ground to consistently grow , Create the Perfect Patio: Finding Great Furniture a large crop of healthy , New Ideas For Your Backyard Landscaping Project vegetables - there must be a way? Let me tell you some of my experience with this important question. For 15 years I have owned a 3/4 acre parcel adjacent to Utah's Hogle Zoo, where I have grown a vegetable garden , Buying a Lawn Mower using The Mittleider Method as taught in many of the developing countries around the world by Dr. Jacob R. Mittleider. To receive Dr. Mittleider's Gardening , A Rather Shady Affair Basics Course e-book free, visit the Charitable Foundation's website at www.foodforeveryone.org. During the past 15 years I've been privileged to help Dr. M. on a few projects, and recently, with his blessing, conducted some myself, in Armenia, Madagascar, and Turkey. My Zoo garden , Design The Desert Landscape Of Your Dreams is always extremely productive, rather nice to look at, and a very popular unofficial "exhibit" with the 700,000+ annual , Create the Perfect Patio: Finding Great Furniture visitors to the zoo. Many people have asked, as they visited over the fence, if I used the zoo animals' manure, and I always told them no, that I use natural , How to Grow Organic Roses mineral nutrients. But then one day a lady piqued my interest when she said the Seattle Zoo sells their composted animal manure to the public as "Zoo Doo." I decided to check this out, so I talked to them and found they pile the manure in win-rows, and after about a year, dry, bag, and sell it. I decided I could make a lot better compost , Location, Location, Location: Where to Put Your Water Garden than what Seattle got by leaving it out in the rain for a year. So I first bought a Compost , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction To Hydroponics Gardening For Beginners (Part 5) Plant Growth Tumbler and learned the best procedures and mixes as I tested small batches, using the manure from 7 of the large herbivores. Very quickly I learned how to , Make The Most From Your Vegetable Garden maintain the mix at a constant 140+ degree heat, , Budget For Your Garden and after 3 weeks I had beautiful, , Buying Teak Wood Furniture Responsibly black, sweet-smelling compost. , Location, Location, Location: Where to Put Your Water Garden I thought this was great, but there was nowhere near enough compost , 6 Indoor Plants That Love The Dark: A Tip From The Garden Center Nursery to take care of my large garden, , How to Build a Pond: Basic Considerations so I then acquired a 10-yard cement truck and began doing large batches. With loads this size, they maintained temperatures , Gardening Basics: Inspecting Your Soil over 140 degrees for 3 weeks, and then cooled down for one week. And You've never seen such beautiful , Designing an Edible Garden material - I really felt like I was making the world's best compost! , Gardening Basics: Inspecting Your Soil I obtained the right to use the Zoo-Doo name, bought bags, T-shirts, banners, cart, etc. and began selling at the Zoo gift shop and in the local , 6 Indoor Plants That Love The Dark: A Tip From The Garden Center Nursery nurseries. I ended up on TV and in the newspapers, and became known as "The Zoo-Doo Man." Whenever I had more than I could sell, I would drive the cement truck down to my garden , Orchids Versus the Traditional Rose and off-load the batch over the wall. , Creating Low Maintenance Gardens I then put it into several soil-beds and grew vegetables , A Teak Bench: The Perfect Complement To Any Outdoor Space with it - to compare which was better - compost , Orchids Versus the Traditional Rose or the Mittleider natural , New Ideas For Your Backyard Landscaping Project mineral nutrients, which I'd been using all along. And I grew good stuff with my Zoo-Doo. However, the most important thing I learned in that two-year experiment was not how to , Clone with Success make and sell Zoo-Doo. I learned for myself that I could grow , 'Brite Eyes' Climbing Rose better vegetables , Three Tips for a Better and Cheaper Lawn more consistently, and with a lot less time, cost, and hassle, with a few pounds of inexpensive natural , How to Choose a Perfect Wood Porch Swing mineral nutrients, than I could with truckloads of "the world's best compost. , Budget For Your Garden "Âť I therefore continue to use good, clean organic , Gardening for Wildlife materials when they are available, but I know that highly productive vegetable gardens , Buying a Lawn Mower are not dependent on improving the soil , An Introduction To Vinyl Fences with organic , Edible Flowers material. Another side benefit is that we have been able to avoid any insect or disease , Understanding Weeds - But mostly How to Kill 'em infestations (often introduced by compost)in 15 years, and so I never have to use pesticides or herbicides in my large garden. , 6 Indoor Plants That Love The Dark: A Tip From The Center Nursery Jim Kennard, President of Food , Winterizing Tips for Your Lawn and Garden For Everyone Foundation, has a wealth of leadership, financial, business, teaching, and gardening , Add Some Enchantment To Your Backyard With A Garden Gazebo training and experience upon which to draw in helping the Foundation to achieve its goals of "teaching the world to grow food , How to Grow Organic Roses one family at a time." He is a retired CPA, and has also owned and successfully managed several different businesses, including hotels, shopping centers, apartments, , 6 Indoor Plants That Love The Dark: A Tip From The Garden Center Nursery and retail establishments during the past twenty five years. Jim has been a Mittleider gardener for the past twenty-eight years; he is a Master Mittleider Gardening , Design The Desert Landscape Of Your Dreams Instructor, and has taught classes and worked one-on-one with Dr. Jacob Mittleider on several gardening , The Value of Mulch projects in the USA and abroad. You can get his advice , Tool Sheds in vegetable gardening , How to Grow Organic Roses questions by visiting the FAQ section of the Foundation's web , Winterizing Tips for Your Lawn and Garden page at http://foodforeveryone.org/faq/. |
  
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