Our friends at Send A Cow have cre­ated a new web­site video game to help drum up dona­tions for a com­post called “magic muck”. The “magic muck” is a spe­cial type of organic com­post for­ti­fied with extra nutri­ents. Send A Cow has been work­ing for over 20 years on per­fect­ing the recipe. Send A Cow helps farm­ers develop their own com­post pile of magic muck from plant parts, ani­mal waste and top soil.

The game is called Ker-Splats Splat Attack. In the game, you throw the “magic muck” at ani­mals, the more ani­mals you splat the higher your score, and the more time you get to play. How­ever, splat­ting ani­mals can be drain­ing on your sup­ply, so every so often you have to retrieve fresh sup­plies from the bub­bling vat of magic muck. From the game, there is a link to raise funds to help develop and teach farm­ers to make the magic muck themselves.

For some back­ground on the orga­ni­za­tion, Send A Cow began in 1988 when a group of farm­ers sent female cows to poverty stricken fam­i­lies in Africa. The fam­i­lies agrees to send the first female calf to another fam­ily in need. The gift of 25 cows mul­ti­plied into many more.

As Send A Cow grew, they began to teach African farm­ers tech­niques to increase their yields. They also began to adapt send­ing live­stock to help­ing fam­i­lies with the water and feed needed to main­tain the cows. Send A Cow also began to give smaller live­stock such a goats.

The game is actu­ally a good teach­ing moment for chil­dren. Dur­ing the writ­ing of this post we had our two and half year old play a few rounds while explain­ing the con­cept to him. Most of it prob­a­bly goes over his head, but at least it’s a start. We have our own com­post pile in back, but it’s mostly cof­fee grounds so I doubt it’s as nutri­ent filled as the “magic muck”. Any­way, we invite you to give the game a try this weekend.

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