manure needs a hechsher?

It imparts no flavour to the food (I hope not at least) and so far as I'm aware, there is no issue of enzymes affecting the produce. So it shouldn't be problematic. Furthermore, @MoriDoweedhYaa3qob, I could see some requiring it much like anything else which is tangentially related to food in some households.

@NoachmiFrankfurt compost is a breakdown of natural ingredients with dirty. wild fruits and berries which grow in the forests and what not are fertilized with feces of which ever animal dropped it from the tree onto the ground. so is that not kosher too? this is some insane question man

for example monkyes eat some type of berry and then they defecate onto the ground containing the seeds in their manure which regrows the bushes and trees of that fruit. so is that not kosher?

@MoriDoweedhYaa3qob, I'll eat wild-fruit, but I suspect that some would opine that anything with feces from a treif species would not be edible. I personally don't care as long as it doesn't negatively impact the environment (in other words, manure is better than artificial fertiliser).

@NoachmiFrankfurt on what sources?

@MoriDoweedhYaa3qob, again, this is just my suspicion, some in the communities I've been in have held by some pretty strange chumrot, many of which I could find no source for when I looked. (This may be an Ashkenazi problem, although I have heard some strange inyanim from my Maghribi friends.)

@NoachmiFrankfurt indeed the ashkanazim have terrible 7umroth which have no basis in torath mosha and it is a huge problem for judaism. from what i have experienced it is usually ashkanazim with the 7umroth and the jamoro calls them hadeeyyoth for this. safaradim are different in their 7umroth. its not much so 7umroth as it is their hashqofo which is off the charts with their kabbalistic nuances and superstitions

@MoriDoweedhYaa3qob, there is the advantage, historically at least, of the German minhag: we were careful to avoid kabbalistic additions (in fact the rabbanut of Frankfurt a.M. forbid the use of salt on challot during the time of Shabbatai Tzvi due to the kabbalistic interpretation thereof). Unfortunately, many of my fellow Yeckes have become quite machmir to the detriment of our mesorah.

@NoachmiFrankfurt from what i have seen, yekes hold similar customs to teimonim and seems to me that their jewish customs(which some say is customs now because the customs became laws and laws became customs)is still similar to older judaism(some what more original) than what is from the rest of the ashkanazim. i spoke to a yeke who became "litvish" and he says its true not a lot of kalastic things were included into the yeke traditions however he doesnt want to shun kabala due to being influenced by it.

i also spoke to an einikel from the 7atham sofeir and he said he knew of a yaki who went by the rambam during pre ww2 times but he went mad because he didnt fit in with anyone since there werent many like him around. he said he blamed ashkanazim for all the problems in judaism and so on. sounds like me from 100years ago lol

@MoriDoweedhYaa3qob, I have also seen Yekkes identifying closely with Teimanim, although some of the suggestions (we both traditionally use an "o" sound for the qamatz) seem rather cherry-picked rather than substantive. It might be interesting to compile a list of similar minhagim though.

@NoachmiFrankfurt they wear the 6aleeth is worn is also the same