No other fertiliser possesses the qualities and properties of Bat Guano. It is the ultimate in Organic Fertiliser containing all the essential elements necessary to grow healthy plants.

The word "guano" originated from the Quichua language of the Inca civilization and means...

"the droppings of sea birds".

Bat guano has been used in agriculture in many regions for hundreds of years:

• In the 1600s in Peru, the Incas valued guano so highly that the punishment for harming the animals that produced it was death.
• In 1856, The United States also recognised the value of guano, by passing an Act that gave protection to any citizen that discovered a source of guano. The discoverer was able to take possession of unclaimed land that contained guano, and was entitled to exclusive rights to the deposits.
• By the end of the nineteenth century, artificial fertilisers made guano less important.

Now that the risks of synthetic gardening products are becoming widely known, more and more growers are realizing that this dark, rich manure is indeed one of nature's treasures, ably serving as plant fertilizer, soil builder, soil cleanser, fungicide, nematocide, and compost activator.

Bat guano can be safely used as an organic fertiliser, both indoors and outdoors and will benefit vegetables, field crops, herbs, flowers, fruit and nut trees.

Because guano is rich in bioremediation microbes, which help clean up toxic substances, it will act as a purifier in areas in transition from chemical to organic practises.

Bat guano is the most highly refined organic fertiliser, guano starts out as plant life, and insects eat from the plant then fly into the air and are eaten by the bats. The bats droppings fall to the cave floor and then the guano beetles and decomposing microbes attack the bat droppings and use it as food. The result of this natural process is that guano contains powerful decomposing microbes, which help control soil-borne diseases.

Bat guano contains all the macro and micronutrients that plants require in a natural form whereas inorganic fertilisers are manufactured to have particular characteristics. This results in multiple applications of various inorganic fertilisers in order to remedy deficiencies that exist in the soil.

• Soil Builder - improves the texture of the soil
• Soil cleanser - microbes help to clear any toxins in the soil
• Fungicide - when fed to the plants through the leaves
• Nematocide - decomposing microbes help control nematodes (worms)
• Compost activator - microbes speed up the decomposition

Proponents of organic farming maintain that the advantages of organic fertilisers are that it will not upset the natural balance of the soil in the applied area. What this means is that you can apply lots to the area, but only small quantities of the nitrogen and other useful minerals and elements will leach out of the soil.

Whereas with inorganic fertilisers there is considerable leaching of the soil and these elements end up in rivers and streams where the ecosystem is destroyed. A process called eutrophication, where the competition between plant life and fish life for oxygen results in the destruction of marine life and the growth of algae. The best example is to use is the destruction caused by DDT in the 1960's.

In essence guano as a fertiliser forms an integral part of organic farming which is the move away from the synthetic fertilisers and insecticides, favouring crop rotation over monoculture i.e. one crop farming in order to preserve or in many cases re-establish the biodiversity of farm.

There is a 10%-15% annual increase in the amount of agricultural land being converted to organic methods.