Food for Thought Book Club Looks at Natural Fertilizers

The Food For Thought Book Club is reading “Holy Shit:  Managing Manure to Save Mankind” by Gene Logsdon. It will be discussed Wednesday, April 3, at 6 p.m., in the Gozzer Room.
Logsdon provides the inside story of manure – our greatest, yet most misunderstood, natural resource.
He begins by lamenting a modern society that not only throws away both animal and human manure-worth billions of dollars in fertilizer value-but that it spends a staggering amount of money to do so. This wastefulness makes even less sense as the supply of mined or chemically synthesized fertilizers dwindles and their cost skyrockets.
In fact, he argues, if we do not learn how to turn our manures into fertilizer to keep food production in line with increasing population, our civilization, like so many that went before it, will inevitably decline.
With his trademark humor, his years of experience writing about both farming and waste management, and his uncanny eye for the small but important details, he describes how to manage farm manure, pet manure and human manure to make fertilizer and humus.
This book club is offered in partnership with the Inland Northwest Food Network. For more information visit www.inwfoodnetwork.org.