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Looking for a creative way to fertilize your garden? Try dung bunnies (and other lovable critters) made from composted manure and hay. Artist Susan Bell combines hay with manure from her two horses in a truly fertile idea for your garden. The aged dung sculptures last up to a year, don't stink (the manure has aged for several years) and fertilize your garden as they break down.
Bell, an oil painter by profession, brings an artist's sensibilities to her eco-friendly endeavor. "At that time (that I came up with the idea), the Brooklyn Museum had just made a very controversial acquisition of an art piece made from human waste," she told GreenMuze.com. "Since I make my living as a professional artist (I am an oil painter), I decided that since the art that was currently considered really 'important' was just sh-t, I should utilize my own continuous supply of resources and make art out of it."
Bunnies aren't your thing? Try ducks, frogs, turtles or even a "dung couple" modeled after a traditional wedding centerpiece. "People buy it as a divorce gift," she notes in a Denver Post article on her web site. "It's kind of a metaphor for a marriage—if you leave it out in the rain, it will decompose much faster than if you keep it protected."
Add in eco-friendly shipping practices (Dung Bunnies are packed in shredded paper inside boxes recycled from local businesses), and we just can't find anything to pooh-pooh about this product.
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I loved this & shared your article with a friend. She told me that her zoo has "zoo doo" available to the public. How awesome!
I think the zoo where I live does that, as well. I'm not such a fan of the whole zoo paradigm, so it's good to see something positive coming out of that.