Human Urine for Compost, Start to Finish

Urine adds Nitrogen and Water to your compost. Easy. Free (actually it SAVES money by avoiding wasteful flushing of your toilet). Clean (human urine is sterile, unless you have a UTI (urinary tract infection, during which you should probably flush it down your toilet). Think of the millions of gallons of water that cities could save if citizens avoided the wasteful flushing. Meanwhile, it helps microoranisms make compost into great soil. My motto: "Urine may look YELLOW, but it's environmentally GREEN!"

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[NavyBlueSTL]

You should save a step and just pee right on the bales and compost pile :-} Couldn't get any fresher.

[OrganicGarden123]

@NavyBlueSTL Yes, but then I would have to go outside to pee in the winter (cold!) and in the summer (mosquitoes!). :-)

[Nicki1Von9Wicked87]

what gets me is that you play with pee ._o altho this is a nice way to save money an the earth :D

lol but y is there a video on how to make jello shots in the suggestions O_o

[OrganicGarden123]

@Nicki1Von9Wicked87 LOL. I personally don't consider myself to be "playing" with my urine, BUT I do garden, which to me DOES include "playing" with the dirt, which DOES include compost made from my pee (and in a bigger picture it is all chemicals that have been reused and recycled on earth for at least thousands of years, and we're made of this stuff too!). Cheers with the Jello shots! :D

[KirstenLeahy]

does your neighbor love your pee bales near the fence?????Good idea still... I pee under my fruit trees, mostly if my partners been to the toilet before me I have a week stomach LOL

[OrganicGarden123]

@KirstenLeahy Hi. My neighbors are wonderful people who enjoy the occasional produce that I can give them, and some of them help care for my garden if I am traveling/away during the growing season. Admittedly, that portion of my FRONT yard is not typical for suburban USA, nor are my gourds growing up the trees on my front yard, but I think they accept my quirkiness! (I don't see any mob gathering with torches and pitchforks, but I'll be on the lookout!) Happy gardening!

[knowthetruth1492]

I do this all the time. There's nothing to be ashamed about.

[NavyBlueSTL]

@OrganicGarden123 Very true. Good video. I hope it encourages people to use this valuable resource. I have been doing this for quite a while and have great results. My family thinks I'm weird, buts whats new.

[cherrybombchick666]

As far as using gallons of water _each_ time you urinate . . . "If it's yellow, let it mellow." ;-) (Not that I suggest doing that when guests are around!) You are much more dedicated to living a green life than I am, and I've got to give you props for that. Kudos.

[iamlevicastle]

You should drink more water, that's some yellow pee pee. Being properly hydrated makes you feel better. :)

[RaidenTheAlmighty]

@haywoodfarm There's just something off putting about collecting menstrual blood to use as fertilizer. Not many gals will be going for that.

[haywoodfarm]

@RaidenTheAlmighty . We have a lot in common, you, me and menstrual blood! You and I will probably end up back in the earth- Hi There RTA. I wonder why you find it creepy. Where do you think it used to go prior to the flushing toilet, meds and tampons etc? I am not sure what you learnt at school or home - menstrual blood comes from the same place you and I come from. You and I will end up in the earth. And how much menstrual blood ends up in landfill anyway? Creepy? - its a b*oody good idea!