If You're Bringing Cows, Bring Your Own Decomposers
Living organisms create a lot of waste products. Every year they deposit millions of tons of dead plant and animal matter on almost every corner of the earth - and they make dung, lots of dung. Where would we be without the natural decomposers - millions of…
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