Wed, 17 Dec 2003

Trees soak up lagoons full of hog manure

Here's some news and no mistake:

Trees soak up lagoons full of hog manure

Which will make it easier to close down the 1700 enviromental disasters in North Carolina known as manure lagoons which are awaiting cleanup treatment. Who knows how many of these pestholes exist nationally? The standard treatment is to scoop the stuff out and spray it on fields, then fill in the hole. Messy, and it takes a long time for the soil to recover. Using the trees, it's just cover and run, and the land can be reused in a decade or so.

Of course, the real solution to the problem of hog manure lagoons is not to raise hogs in dark, dank, disease infested confinement barns in the first place! Pasture them - they're healthier, we're healthier, our enviroment is healthier and the cost difference is minimal or even cheaper (we sell bacon from our free ranged, pastured hogs for $2.50 to $3 per pound - less than most of the supermarket brands).

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