It is starting to really scare me! Please, does anyone have any realistic viable ideas about how we can solve this problem in a way that will keep the crops nurtured, without hurting the people anymore? We need to take away this disgusting poop smell that is seeping through our neighborhoods and our homes Login or Register free to reply publicly or privately Email.
Gratitude expressed by 5 members: diaba , letalaborde , patjackman , Roberta Llewellyn , Sam. Re: The Manure Smell is overwhelming and toxic! I've lived in Sebastopol for 35 years. Every year around this time, one can smell the manure wafting through the air. I personally don't mind it.
It usually coincides with our late summer heat waves, which probably activate it more. As a person with fairly severe chemical sensitivities, I'd rather smell manure than scented body products even so called "natural ones" that most of Sonoma County residents think nothing of dousing themselves with, thus subjecting others to, on a daily basis.
The manure won't last long. Be grateful you live in such a beautiful part of the world and if you have to close your windows for a few weeks, as I do when the neighbors burn lighter fluid for Bar b ques or let their dogs bark constantly, then one has to adjust.
Manure is a small price to pay for the abundance of wonderful farm products which define and enhance our county. Posted in reply to the post by Sonoma:. Gratitude expressed by 13 members: anaturalwoman , Barry , Dixon , kittymama23 , meherc , nancypreb , podfish , quirkypixie , Ronaldo , Sara S , twodogs , Wink. As an organic farmer for the last 24 years, I have learned to appreciate the smell of manure coming from the dairy farm next to my fruit farm.
That manure is some of the best natural fertilizer available. What is really toxic to our health are the chemical fertilizers.
Sonoma County has a "Right to Farm" ordinance. I agree with the comment by Lili below. Posted in reply to the post by lili It usually coincides with our late summer heat waves, which probably activate it more No mud, no lotus.
Gratitude expressed by 2 members: Dixon , kpage9. Does anyone know if the fertilizers being used are ones that are natural with no toxins added, or toxic ones? Maybe the issue is which type of fertilizers are being used and what's in them. If farmers are using toxic types, then maybe that can be changed, so that everyone can take a deep breath without triggering asthma or other respiratory problems. Anyone know for sure?
I do agree that this awful fertilizer smell seems to come around more often than once a year and I'd like to know why it smells so bad myself. It has become worse over the past 10 years, IMO, also. I am from farm country in the Midwest, and while California cows may be happy cows, they sure do seem to stink a lot worse. I especially don't understand why it all too often smells like dead animals are in the mix - manure should smell almost green and fresh.
Is it a super high urine content,too? But, it doesn't burn my eyes or make me cough; I just dislike it immensely. I certainly don't encourage anyone to come visit this time of year.
For all the work these neighboring cities put in to making their towns a tourist-pleasing spot, you'd think they'd want to change this part of the scenario. Gratitude expressed by 4 members: anaturalwoman , Endendros , kittymama23 , wisewomn. Years ago while driving through heavy industry along the NJ Turnpike I commented to a friend about the acrid smells.
June Taylor who held a PHD in microbiology relied, "Don't worry about those, the worst and most dangerous are odorless, colorless, and invisible". Let me understand you. You have already decided that something is a clear and present danger, an active health risk, because you've seen all the studies on it, but you don't actually know what that something really is because you don't know where it's coming from.
You're pretty sure it's manure, but you're not totally sure, because you don't know where it's coming from, but you know it's bad, as in-slowly killing you- bad, because, again, countless studies have already proven it. You're defending your right to protect yourself and your family against something which you'd like someone to tell you what exactly it is and where it's coming from.
Aaaand you'd like to point out that a LOT of people think the same as you, and they are right, but they're too afraid to speak their mind for fear of being bullied and having their feelings hurt when the local-yokels, who incidentally are either really uninformed or must not mind being themselves or having their children poisoned, say hurtful things like, "Move somewhere else!.
Can I ask where exactly you live? Who are your neighbors? How long have you lived there, that you've noticed it's gotten so much worse in recent years? Exactly how familiar are you with the agricultural community in your area? Because honestly. It sounds like you're wanting something done about something you don't know much about. I think you should start with finding out exactly what it is you're fighting against. What are the actual facts?! Start there Gratitude expressed by 3 members: ChefJayTay , Dick , jbox.
Forego fertilizing our fields for the sake of pleasing the tourists?!!!! Posted in reply to the post by Willow:. Gratitude expressed by 3 members: Dick , Dixon , quirkypixie. You need to learn how to read, please. Go back and read it again. And I don't appreciate the way you bashed the person who started this topic. You are being cruel intentionally. Posted in reply to the post by nancypreb:. Last edited by Barry; at AM.
I'm sorry I hurt your feelings. Clearly you're very sensative. If you're done calling me names though, can you please explain what part I missed? I may not be as sensitive as you but I do like specificity. Gratitude expressed by 2 members: Dick , Dixon.
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