CowPots - transplanter pots made of you know what
by rd @ 8:49 am 3 comments »
CowPots’ transplanter pots are made of that natural plant growing nectar, 100% composted cow manure. Odorless and completely biodegradable they’re made in the USA from a renewable resource, cow pooh. Plant pot and all in your garden to promote healthy root growth and add nutrients to your soil.
Using this type of pot will reduce the consumption of oil used in the manufacture of plastic pots and keep plastic out of our landfills.
Growing your own produce is the ultimate in ‘buying local’.
a sleeve of 12, 4 inch pots goes for $8.49 @ healthfoodjct.com
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These sound great and are definitely a better option then peat pots but I wonder about the cows that are creating the manure. Are they being pumped full of antibiotics and fed an unnatural diet to plump them up fat then slaughter them en masse? That’s not really the type of business that I want to support nor do I want my plants growing in that.
The Freunds run a family dairy operation with a focus on environmentally sound management of their energy stream. Take a look at their story on the Cowpots website. They appear to have a close, caring relationship with their herd. We have asked them to respond.
The phrase “slaughter them en masse” seems to be a rather dramatic rush to judgment. By all appearances they seem to be doing a very eco-friendly thing here.
The Freunds run a dairy farm and a farm store in the Northwest Corner of Connecticut. They are not producers of meat or meat products. They use cow manure for fertilizer (I purchase a dump truck load of semi-processed manure from them for my garden and farm each year)and the methane from cow manure to produce electricity. The Discovery Channel program on their operation in Dirty Jobs says a lot. N&J may have a good conceptual point but it doesn’t apply to Matt and Ben Freund or to Cowpots.