Manure is often overlooked as being useless and icky, when in fact, it can prove to be very fertile...and worth a few marks, if one is willing to spend time and effort gathering and sacking the stuff.
To be honest, the job really isn't as offal as one would imagine. To start, llama dung does not smell nearly as bad as that of a bovine, llamas tend to deficate in one spot for a prolonged time (making it easier to find), and it fertilizes twice as well as bovine dung. All that's needed is a shovel and a few sacks to get started, as well as a few connections with herb-growing healers or folks who keep up small gardens.
Simply enough, the dung must be shoveled into a sack and sealed off. After that, it only has to be spread evenly over the desired area...and viola! Taller, greener plants are gauranteed in just a few sevendays. Of course, every once and a while, the fertilizer should be replaced with fresher bags.
One might argue that the healers could go and find their own llama pooh, but doing that would require llamas, of which the hall has none. Pricing, of course, would not be very expensive at all...perhaps a quarter mark a sack, as after all, it /is/ just excrement that Aouda shoves into a sack and sells for a small price. |
