Marin Magazine, September 2011
He’s Full of It: A Point Reyes Station entrepreneur is marketing manure.
Two years ago, middle-aged Teddy Stray was fed up with the corporate life. "I was tired of the constant traveling," he recalls. "I wanted to stay closer to home; I wanted meaning in my life." Fortunately, the Bayonne, New Jersey, native was married to the farmer’s daughter. [ read more ]

Edible East Bay, August 2011
The Dish on Dairy Dirt: Ruminations on composted manure
Where does our food come from? As organic growers of vegetable plant starts, Peggy and I get to have a hand in helping people with an enthusiastic answer to this oft-repeated question by saying, "It comes from my home garden." [ read more ]

SF Chronicle, February 2011
Composted manure is the gardener's friend
I'm a poo chaser. You see, I have a number of animals in my Oakland backyard - a pair of Nigerian dwarf goats and a herd of rabbits - that spend an inordinate amount of time making poo. Every week, I shovel load after load of goat berries and rabbit pellets into my wheelbarrow, and you know what? I find myself smiling. [ read more ]

Huffington Post, February 2011
Composting in California: Come Get Your Bag o' Crap!
Well, now I can add "interviewed a crap farmer" to my esteemed resume, while checking it off my bucket list. My parents will be so proud. This so totally surpasses my piano recital at Carnegie Hall when I was 17. [ read more ]