Take it from here local news:
“They're fired up about feces, excited about excrement, pumped about poop, stoked about ... you get the picture… The women of Novato's Soroptimists International chapter hope to raise funds for college scholarships and other charity programs by selling bags of llama droppings in front of Pini Ace Hardware on South Novato Boulevard during the store's Spring Garden Day.”
This article is bringing up all sorts of memories I have tried to suppress for many years. Because llamas like to poop in a relatively low number of piles all over their pasture, it isn’t so bad to clean up their pens, and use the scheiss to fertilize the garden or newly planted trees, etc. like my family has been doing forever. However, it’s not exactly a fond memory of your Saturday afternoon’s growing up either. I also distinctly recall my first science experiment in 6th grade where we grew some sort of bean sprouts, and I had 3 pots to grow. One plain control plant, one fertilized with llama manure, and one with mint compost. The mint compost plant won, with the fastest growth, with the llama pellets a close second. I hypothesized that the llama pellets took longer to break down and thus didn’t achieve quite as good of growth in the short amount of time.
Here comes a helpful hint for that problem from the article:
“The manure is a compact pellet size and is virtually odor free. Its low nitrogen content is considered a plus and makes it popular in vegetable gardens. Brewing "bean tea" - a mixture of pellets and water that soaks overnight- can bring immediate results to transplanted seedlings or plants that are considered heavy feeders.”
I was unaware of this Bean Tea (there’s a tea party joke in here somewhere), but I will take issue with the fact they say that the pellet is virtually odor free. No, that’s just not true.
Side note, the 3 poop factory llamas names are Llouie, Llovee, and Lluna.
Poop on.
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