A healthy lawn isn’t built overnight—it’s built in the soil. The right organic fertilizer does more than make your grass ...

MILWAUKEE—The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District has resumed production and shipments of its dried sludge fertilizer Milorganite now that concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls in the ...

>> THIS IS THE BUILDING HERE, THIS LARGE BUILDING ACROSS THE RIVER THAT IS THE SEWERAGE DISTRICT’S MILORGANITE PLANT WHERE SEWAGE IS TURNED INTO FERTILIZER. THE EXHAUST, AND SOME OF THE ODOR FROM THAT ...

An odor analysis laboratory has confirmed what the public sniffed out a few months ago: Milorganite fertilizer has a different smell. Gone are the days when the fertilizer made from heat-dried sewage ...

The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District has asked that the fertilizer it produces be registered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a garden deer repellent. Mike Archer, market ...

Fielding Questions columnist Don Kinzler explains what can be done about nightcrawlers, when best to fertilize lawns with Milorganite and methods for growing carrots. Nightcrawlers have caused ...

The Milorganite fertilizer factory that opened on Jones Island in 1994 is wearing out and will require a total of $66.5 million worth of equipment replacement and other rehabilitation work in 2016 and ...

In polite company, deer are often referred to as marauding hooved garden thieves or garden buggers. Arlene Johnson has an entirely different vocabulary of words she uses to describe them in the ...

Milorganite is the trademark of a biosolids fertilizer produced by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District. The name is a contraction of the phrase Milwaukee ...

Is Milorganite OK to use as a winterizer fertilizer? I've noticed the nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium values in it are quite low, so I have to apply a lot of it to my lawn. Cost wise, it seems to be ...

Since 1913, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (and its predecessor) have manufactured Milorganite, an agricultural fertilizer, with a natural process that involves city waste. Although many ...

Keep your lawn green with these eco-friendly fertilizers. July 24, 2009 — -- You can keep your lawn green and happy while being environmentally conscious. According to Eartheasy.com, the average ...