To prevent freezer burn on your greens, pack them still rather wet from the blanching so that they end up in a protective layer of ice, use good quality freezer bags rather than the thinner food storage bags, and squeeze all the air out. I do that last by putting the greens in as a flat layer then rolling the bag with its greens up tightly from the bottom. When you're ready to use them the ice will provide all the water necessary to microwave them or you can thaw and drain them to saute or stir-fry them.

First, I'll admit that if you could get it to work out for you, that there would be a certain sense of satisfaction in knowing you did it. For myself, I don't think the risk:reward ratio warrants the use of a poo solution. I'm going to feel like a salmon swimming upstream here, but here's why I wouldn't use it: 1) You have no idea what you're supplying to your plants. How much of what nutrients. NPK, Ca, Mg, S, Fe ......? 2) The odds are very high that, because you have no idea of what a proper dosage might be, you'll either be applying too much or too little. Since your post infers you'll be careful, let's assume you'll be applying too little. 3) Because you'll be trying to remain on the safe side and will apply too little, nutritional deficiencies will develop. Any deficiency stalls growth, but it's unlikely you'll know which nutrient(s) is/are deficient, so you'll need to apply fertilizer anyway, if you wish to correct. 4) It's unlikely that the poo will contain a proper balance of nutrients, that certain nutrients will be well represented and some will be absent, or nearly so. If you then add a properly balanced fertilizer that is necessary, the additional nutrients in the soil from the poo are superfluous and only contribute unnecessarily to the level of total dissolved solids in the soil, which makes it more difficult for the plant to take up water and nutrients. 5) You're much better off to use a fertilizer that you can control the dosage of and that you KNOW has the right balance of nutrients, than you are to try to play a guessing game with a fertilizer that is high in some nutrients and low in or lacking others, and then try to correct the imbalance with a balanced fertilizer. 6) Organic forms of fertilizers (like poo and fish emulsions) rely on micro-organism populations in the soil to break down organic molecules into an elemental form that plants can use. These micro-organisms experience boom/bust cycles in container culture and cannot be relied upon to deliver the nutrients just because they are present in soils. If they are locked in organic hydrocarbon chains, they are unavailable until those chains are cleaved by soil organisms. 7) Organic fertilizers used on container media tend to form hydrophobic algal caps on exposed soil surfaces and encourage the proliferation of fungus gnats. FWIW, none of the above are associated with the use of soluble fertilizers like MG or Foliage-Pro. Al

So...get involved. ...and try to align yourself with a real protest group...or start one on your own. ...or get involved in government. There's a lot of really ineffective protest groups out there because when they talk to people in power (from farmers, to policy makers, to policy pushers) they sound like idiots because they're getting their ammo from really crap sources. If you come at a farmer, policy maker, or policy pusher with stuff like "2-4,D = Agent Orange" you've already lost your battle and you should probably question the organization that gave you that battle cry. People are quick to question what they want to fight against without digging into the information given to them by organizations they believe are on their side. This kind of stuff is exactly the kind of stuff they wouldn't tolerate from "the other side." For reference...check out what The Organic Consumers Associate fed their readers/supporters vs the actual petition they wanted people to sign and send to representatives on the subject of 2,4-D GMOs. They very commonly arm people with really horrible information in order to push an agenda based on fear. They could give real/useful information, but getting numbers behind a petition is more important. If you use these talking points on farmers, policy makers, and policy pushers you will absolutely nowhere because you're using nonsense as a tool in your battle. This isn't the kind of information you arm your base with...it does them no good in an intelligent conversation about policy. Not every issue can be solved via the "Pink Slime shaming" of a product off the market. This post was edited by nc-crn on Sat, May 11, 13 at 15:49

Yes, you can. Most people prefer to compost their Guinea Pig's manure first, but you can put it directly in the garden if you feel comfortable doing so. The reason you might choose to compost it first is to kill any bacteria and other unpleasant pathogens before it goes into the garden. Some people, though, feel composting is not necessary with rabbit and guinea pig manure, although it is necessary with most other animal manures. Dawn