Collecting urine for fertilizer
I
know that it hasn't been that long since you choked your way through a
lunchtime series on urine, but Liquid Gold got me so fired up that I
started a slew of experiments. I apologize in advance to those of
you with weak stomachs, but I'm going to subject you to another week of
urine ramblings.
First up --- how to
collect that pee. Since we don't have an indoor bathroom, Mark
had been peeing into a milk jug for months before I got obsessed with
using urine as fertilizer --- it was just simpler (and warmer) than
going outside. So I didn't have a hard time talking him into
giving up his liquid gold for my experiments, though I did ask if he
might like a fancy,
homemade urinal.
Mark rolled his eyes and told me the gallon jug worked just
fine.
Mark did make one slight
modification to his milk jug --- he printed "DO NOT DRINK!" in large
letters around the rim of the container. During cold spells, we
often imbibe water out of cleaned out milk jugs (filled during warm
spells), so the warning label is a good precaution. In households
with more regular running water, you wouldn't even need that.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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