DIY fertilizer is a blessing as farmers face steep prices due to the Iran war

It's hard enough being a small-scale farmer. Then the Iran war drove up fertilizer prices. So farmers are using a traditional Asian recipe to make their own. They call it a "labor of love."

<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/3600x2405+0+0/resize/3600x2405!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fbc%2Fd5%2Fdfbf3af048d7a06db77294592807%2Fbokashi-26.jpg' alt='At a market in Zambia, organic vegetables share table space with bags of homemade bokashi fertilizer that sell for about $2.50 each.'/><p>It's hard enough being a small-scale farmer. Then the Iran war drove up fertilizer prices. So farmers are using a traditional Asian recipe to make their own. They call it a "labor of love."</p><p>(Image credit: Andy Higgins for NPR)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=g-s1-146541' />