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...INTO ORGANIC GARDENING. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? Mrs. Goss got a little horrified after she started reading the labels on some of the processed foods. We have a farm that [uses] no pesticides, no hormones, no additives--just compost and hard work. And we grow natural. I must say it's very rewarding to see. But the problem is, the critters take half of every plant. They're hard to sell. We haven't trained the critters yet which ones are theirs...
...People laugh at it a little bit, ‘oh it’s just horse shit,’ but we were going to use it,” Hutchins told The Crimson yesterday. “This guy has been taking compost from the town he’s not even a resident...
...know the compost is worth a lot of money,” said Hutchins. “If you went to go buy composted manure and had it delivered to your house, it would be about $35 a [cubic] yard....It perplexes me because I can’t imagine anyone wanting this amount of compost for a yard...
Clean Cash When Irish police tackled a possible I.R.A. money laundering operation last week, they had no idea that their suspects had been taking things so literally. But the raids in Cork and Dublin yielded dirty money - millions of British pounds stashed in compost bins - and wads of euros stuffed into a box of detergent. Authorities suspect that the recovered cash may be connected to the theft of $50 million from a Belfast bank in December - a robbery that officials blamed on the I.R.A., and that helped to kill the latest round of peace talks. $95,000 of that stolen...
With oil prices and pollution levels soaring, China is on a mission to reduce its dependence on oil and diversify its energy supplies. While a few hinterland villages are warming up to compost-fueled stoves and solar-powered ovens, most of the country still relies on industrial-age resources such as coal (to produce electricity) and low-quality gasoline and diesel (to power the nation's transport systems). But alternative energy sources are under development...