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Don't flush it down the loo - save your pee and fertilize your garden! Because it is not recycled, our urine is wasted and pollutes the water system. Yet it could provide 50% - 100% of the nutrients needed to grow our food. Use your pee to make a liquid manure: recycle, save water and energy, and prevent pollution, all at the same time! In the 19th century you could sell your urine for a penny a bucket - or 1.5 pennies if you were a redhead Early Romans used urine as mouthwash In some cultures, urine is used to clean wounds and as a health tonic Urine can be used in curing leather, and as a tattoo pigment Discover the delights of the urine-diverting composting toilet, the activists' urinal, and the urinal for women; find out about customs and rituals connected with urine, the science and technology of its use, and profiles of liquid gold at work all over the world in farms and gardens. Take to the fresh air when nature calls and fertilize your garden for free with Carol Steinfeld's entertaining and fact-filled book!
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Grow with the flow. Liquid Gold tells you how! Every day we urinate nutrients that could be used as fertilizer for plants, which in turn could be used to make beautiful landscapes, food, fuel, and fibre. Instead, these nutrients are flushed away, either to be treated at high cost or discharged to waters where they pollute and choke off aquatic life. Liquid Gold: The Lore and Logic of Using Urine to Grow Plants tells you how urine – which contains most of the nutrients in domestic wastewater and usually carries no disease risk – can be utilized as a resource. Starting with a short history of urine use – from ritual to medicinal, to even culinary – and a look at some unexpected urinals, Liquid Gold shows how urine is used worldwide to grow food and plants, while protecting the environment, saving its users the cost of fertilizer, and reconnecting people to the land and the nutrient cycles that sustain them. That’s real flower power!
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A very interesting, if short, book for a person who is interested in recycling, growing your own veg, eutrophication, science etc. At first it really does sound like a mad idea, but what did we all do before the invention of the loo? I like the "urine stories" which are nice if you happen to be a biology teacher and want to spice up your kidney or nitrogen cycle lessons. also the experiments of growing crops with and without urine are proof it works. To sum up, it was quite afun read and it gives some food for thought, and some huge onions this year so far!!!
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
What a great little book! The first couple of sections are about different urinals and what people do or have done with urine, not really about plants. However it gets really interesting after that, and shows real examples of how applying diluted urine improves plants, explains different ways of collecting it and should convince you that flushing it away is the worst option.
I gave my book away to a friend who has a farm abroad, he wants to try it out, so now I'm buying another copy!
I told another friend about it and I never heard anything else until... one night his wife found a rather strange looking jug with something liquid & frothy hidden away in one corner! He'd been saving it and secretly using it diluted to water some lifeless bamboo in a large pot in the garden. Result??? Vigorous new growth in the bamboo, where previously is was pretty lifeless! Who got it in the neck for his secrete deeds?... Me for telling him about it!!!
I gave my book away to a friend who has a farm abroad, he wants to try it out, so now I'm buying another copy!
I told another friend about it and I never heard anything else until... one night his wife found a rather strange looking jug with something liquid & frothy hidden away in one corner! He'd been saving it and secretly using it diluted to water some lifeless bamboo in a large pot in the garden. Result??? Vigorous new growth in the bamboo, where previously is was pretty lifeless! Who got it in the neck for his secrete deeds?... Me for telling him about it!!!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Okay, its not the most comprehensive book in the world (a bit more on measurements for compost heaps would be nice for one).
It is however packed full of good ideas and is easy on the grey cells and I cannot bring myself to give it anything less than five stars.
Make the next edition a little more comprehensive please.
Good work none the less!
It is however packed full of good ideas and is easy on the grey cells and I cannot bring myself to give it anything less than five stars.
Make the next edition a little more comprehensive please.
Good work none the less!
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the alchemy of waste
This little book, a mere 90 pages, doesn't seem to be written but rather googled. And yet, you can get a glimpse of what's relevant in the biodynamic cycle that we all can easily... Read more
Published 11 months ago by A. Milewski
Great intro to peeing!
This book can easily be read in a few hours. Full of interesting facts and tips it does leave you with a few questions that are never fully dealt with. Read more
Published on 13 Jan 2010 by A. Cotton
It's worth every penny!
This small book informs about historical and modern use of urine as a fertilizer, both in private gardens and on farms. Read more
Published on 20 Jun 2008 by Röshel, E
(not) illogical captain!
Doreen and I have been cultivating a variety of plants over a number of years now. In the past we had always used peat but (thanks to the riots at Clonycavan) prices soared and we... Read more
Published on 3 July 2007 by Wayne Redhart
Not much information.
I have read afew books on this subject and found this one very substandard. If you are looking for facts that have been referenced well this is not the book for you. Read more
Published on 9 Feb 2006 by nicholas ring
Urine is good NOT only for plants!!!
Great book and very informative.Great ideas. After you start applying urine therapy to your plants, try it to yourself !!!
Buy the book "The golden fountain" (C.V.D.Croon). Read more
Buy the book "The golden fountain" (C.V.D.Croon). Read more
Published on 9 Nov 2005
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