Matt Peters collects bat droppings, or guano, from the attics and bell towers of area churches and sells it as fertilizer. He manages to get $2 a pound for something people hate to scrape off their shoes.
“People find it makes nice gifts,” said Sue Zano, who owns a store in Athens where the dung is sold. “They think it’s cool because it came from a church. Those bats were sleeping through all that church singing and praying, and it’s in their droppings.”
Peters started his bat business when he heard that a local church was having electrical problems because years of bat guano had accumulated on wires in the attic. Armed with an industrial vacuum, he sucked up 200 pounds of bat poop.
Photo by Thomas Hawk.
No comments yet.