At 01:02 PM 2/28/2008 -0500, you wrote: >Hey Tony -- > >I'll bet I can "out earthy" you. > >We save the urine instead of putting in the waste stream in the first >place. We store it in 5 gallon pails and then use it for fertilizer. >...rest deleated...
Dear Joel, Tony and Friends--Yes, this can be done successfully, and has been done so for thousands of years. I am planning on doing so myself. I have heard that some plants are more successfully fertilized with urine than others. Any opinions on this from the gardeners in the crowd? The only problem here is that much human urine is not "organic" in the sense that we have so many food additives, antibiotics and other drugs/chemicals in our bodies, due to the prevalence of synthetic industrial chemicals in our environment, that the urine passed by the average American would not meet the criteria for "organic", as in "organic gardening". Now if a person doesn't take any pharmaceuticals and you eat and drink only organic foods/beverages, this would probably be a non-issue. My $.02. Tom Tom Shelley 118 E. Court St. Ithaca, NY 14850 607 342-0864 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.myspace.com/99319958 P I thank you for printing this e-mail only if it is necessary "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." The World Commission on Environment and Development, Gro Harlem Brundtland Our Common Future, Oxford University Press, 1987 MY NOTE: Sustainable development does not mean "sustainable growth" as growth per se is not sustainable. And the term "sustainable" has to mean "for a very long time" (A. Bartlett). "The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives." Sioux proverb _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
