{"id":9858,"date":"2011-01-18T13:18:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T19:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=9858"},"modified":"2017-09-19T20:11:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T00:11:02","slug":"holy-shit-manure-management-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/holy-shit-manure-management-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Shit! Can Manure Management Save Us?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"holyshit\"“Holy Shit!” is damned right. Here’s a book about just that — manure. Precious, plentiful, misunderstood manure. Cow manure, horse poop, human feces, dog shit, you name it, Gene Logsdon writes about it.<\/p>\n

In this recent book<\/a> (affiliate link) from good ol’ contrary farmer Gene Logsdon<\/a>, the wonder and mystery and amazing fertilizing power of manure is revealed. Simultaneously, the book will make you wonder why we let this, uh, natural resource cause so much harm when it could be doing so much good! “Managing manure to save mankind” is no light statement, but it’s very, very real.<\/p>\n

Farmer or not, Holy Shit<\/em><\/a> has appeal beyond those folks living in the country and growing crops like our own Mr. Logsdon has been doing for dozens of years. Logsdon dives into the proverbial pile and beautifully (and with great wit) describes the power of poop in its amazing ability to fertilize and enrich the world’s soil, instead of polluting our waterways and air.
\nI learned, for instance, that some places have the nerve to burn the stuff, on top of letting it pollute the waterways! Why do we spend billions of dollars each year letting manure cause so much harm when it is worth so much?<\/p>\n

Currently, much of the industrialized world flushes their business away, never to be seen again, but Logsdon bravely explains why this practice is unsustainable, and could be reversed to help build up the soil fertility that has been lost through years of exploitative farming practices.<\/p>\n

Logsdon’s musing on cow pies and road apples is inspirational, and that’s no joke. With years of firsthand experience, Logsdon is the real deal: he speaks what he preaches, and provides many an example of how to better handle the vast loads of shit this world’s people and animals produce.<\/p>\n

Environmentalists, farmers, gardnerers, and everyday citizen take note: this is an important (and very entertaining) read about something we deal with everyday, but actually have extremely little understanding of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Holy Shit!” is damned right. Here’s a book about just that — manure. Precious, plentiful, misunderstood manure. Cow manure, horse poop, human feces, dog shit, you name it, Gene Logsdon [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":9971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[124,904,844,4224,845],"yoast_head":"\nHoly Shit: a book on manure management<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Can better manure management reap big environmental dividends? 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