The Manure Maiden
By: Esperanzassanctuary
Language: en
Categories: Science, Nature, Education, Kids, Family
The Manure Maiden is your guide to composting, regenerative living, and community powered change in the Coachella Valley. Learn practical skills, hear real stories, and explore how hope can grow from the ground up.
Episodes
Desert Garden Battlefield: Winning the War on Cucurbit Pests
Jan 08, 2026Tabitha from Esperanza Sanctuary breaks down the common pests attacking melons, squash, and cucumbers in the Coachella Valley. aAphids, whiteflies, leafhoppers, squash bugs, and root-knot nematodes—and how to identify the damage they cause.
Learn practical Integrated Pest Management steps: cultural controls like companion and trap crops, row covers and silver reflective mulch, monitoring with sticky traps, targeted treatments only when thresholds are met, and sanitation and biological options to keep crops healthy without broad spraying.
Duration: 00:08:47Manure into Magic: Enrichment, Cooperative Care & Compost Laws
Dec 07, 2025In this episode Tabitha from Esperanza Sanctuary explores how enrichment and cooperative care for farm animals, on-site composting of manure and food scraps, and California’s organic waste laws (like SB 1383) intersect to build healthier animals, richer soil, and more resilient communities.
She explains practical enrichment and cooperative care techniques, how manure and food waste become fertility instead of trash, and how state policy is driving local climate action and food sovereignty.
Tabitha also shares a local update: the first dog training graduates with the City of Desert Hot Springs and ongoing one-on-one behavior work th...
Duration: 00:14:01