The Haven family has been farmers and ranchers in Southern California for 100 years. Annie Haven would like to carry on that life and business but it’s not easy as the region attracts more development ...

Annie Haven's family has been ranching in Southern California for a hundred years but a prolonged drought has left her with too few cattle to make a living. So she's turned to selling manure tea bags.

Gary writes: My neighbor raises chickens, and she has an abundance of chicken manure that she is willing to share with me for my garden. I recall that some time ago you wrote about manure tea and its ...

How did people manage to garden a century ago before megastores? They couldn’t just run down to the store and pick up a bag of Miracle-Gro. They had to do it the old-fashioned, organic way: with ...

Authentic Haven Brand in San Juan Capistrano is selling manure teabags. But don’t store them next to the Lipton box. Yeah, you can steep them in a large water jar, but don’t leave the resulting brew ...

Would you like your manure transformed into tea water or potable water? That is one of the questions Jim Wallace, an environmental engineer with McLanahan Agricultural Systems, asks Midwest farmers ...

One of Paul Tukey's not-so-favorite chores growing up on a dairy farm was making "manure tea" using his grandmother's old nylons. She would tell him the brew "keeps the bad bugs away and invites the ...

Annie Haven's family has been ranching in Southern California for a hundred years but a prolonged drought has left her with too few cattle to make... Manure Tea: Not Fit For Human Consumption RENEE ...