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Re: Make your own "Miracle-Gro"

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Frank Teuton wrote:

>
> A failsafe place for urine is in a brown-rich compost pile----all
> constituents are gratefully metabolized by the microherd---make sure it is a
> well aerated compost pile, since anaerobia is always to be avoided,
> especially in an N-riched environment....

> <snip>I checked with my local public health authorities, and all were agreed
> that
> in composting urine is completely safe....but I apply it modestly and using
> opaque containers....no sense inviting the wrath of the badly toilet trained
> down on yer heads......:-)
>

I don't know the details but recognized experts in agriculture teaching
impoverished African villages how to grow more and better crops have made
composting a big item and have organized the community so that all contribute
their urine to the community compost pile.

Ed Flynn    Maryland zone 6/7

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