Liquid Gold
To
round out my cruise reading, I hunted down Liquid
Gold: The Lore and Logic of Using Urine to Grow Plants
by Carol Steinfeld. I've been wanting to integrate urine into our
homestead fertility plan more rigorously, but got stuck on not knowing
if the salts would build up in the soil. I'm disappointed to say
that Liquid
Gold didn't
precisely answer that question, but it is a great jumping off point for
our own experiments.
The book is very slim,
but the price is low --- $10 plus $2 shipping on the Liquid Gold website --- so I
wasn't too disappointed that I could sum up the garden-related
information in just a few short pages. And I was certainly amused
and intrigued by the cute pictures and fun factoids. For example,
did you know that in nineteenth century London, people sold their urine
for a penny per bucket for fixing dye? And that numerous cultures
have drunk human urine for ceremonial or health purposes?
Clearly, there's a lot to learn about plain old pee.
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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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