Liquid Gold; Some Lessons Urine Charge Of

Yes. It's true. I pee in a gallon container and dilute it to pour into my vegetable garden. My plants love it and I am recycling my waste materials back into the local earth around me. For me, there is a deep unification that actually and symbolically arises out of this practice;

• I take in toxins and excess nutrients which in turn get flushed out through my kidneys and intestines.
• I then replenish the soils around me and nourish the plants with their chemically rich blend of nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus.

Here are some useful/interesting facts about urine fertilization, aka "Liquid Gold":

• Studies indicate that each person’s waste fluids can provide enough nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium to grow a year’s supply of wheat and maize for that person. According to some studies, human waste can be an even more effective fertilizer than animal manure. (1)
  
• as a fertilizer is that much of the urine is available in ideal chemical forms: nitrogen is in the form of urea (ammonia/ammonium which is present at concentrations of approximately 3.5 g/l), phosphorus as superphosphate and potassium as an ion (2)
  
• every day people in the US discard 7 million pounds of nitrogen and trace minerals in the form of human urine (3)
  
• One of the best ways to use urine as a fertilizer is to mix it with "graywater," waste water recycled from bathwater or dishwater. (4)

In my own web-searching, I found some wonderful resources, particularly one article from Relocalize.net that has a list of relavent books on the subject of composting and recycling waste valuables.

Enjoy the list of articles, websites, and blogs as you educate yourself on how to more intelligently and resourcefully use your body's resources. Remember, waste is richly valuable and it probably the most 'wasted' resource we have as human beings. It would be wise to change the language around 'waste' and re-construct it to illustrate and communicate its value. There is definitely a lot to be learned about abundance from the amount of resource that flows from our bodies. I think it is especially important for the sustain of our wealth and abundance, to not take these riches for granted, and to give them attention and find the best way to re-invest them into our immediate surroundings, rather than displacing them across the world or trying to get rid of them.

as the saying goes, "Urine Charge"

ALOHA and happy golden day!

Farmer Brown

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Liquid Gold Blog
Pees On Earth - A photo book of the places a woman pees during her travels...
A Website by Ron Williams - Ron Williams is a Freelance writer as well as being a Horticulturist and a Rehabilitation Therapy Aid at a Psychiatric Hospital in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He writes ezines for wz.com. He runs his own Website called Bare Bones Gardening. He also owns a discussion group about Australian Gardening, called Austgardens at www.groups.yahoo.com
Casaubon's Book - A Blog
The East Bay Express "Where the Gold is Yucky"
Relocalize.net - A list of books and materials for recycling wastes, composting, etc.