Today I read this quick snippet on career bat guano harvesters in Peru. And it got me thinking…”How sustainable is it for gardeners in the U.S. to use bat guano?”
If the guano we use in Seattle is harvested and shipped from Peru, is buying that fertilizer just as bad as buying fruits and vegetables shipped from Argentina in the North American winter? What is the larger economic cost of using this natural, organic fertilizer? What is the cost in petroleum, for instance, in getting that box of powdered, gardening gold to me? Would it be better for me to seek out Aged chicken poop instead?
I haven’t come up with a decision on this yet, but it’s gotten me thinking about cost v. value in the garden. Anyone else faced this one and come up with great solutions?
