As a professional gardener, I’m always seeking out new ways to feed my plants. I have steeped nettles in old buckets to brew a nitrogen-rich foliar feed, hoarded banana skins from the trash for a ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The world is in a fertilizer shortage. The dilemma is linked to ...

You probably flush a nutrient-rich, renewable fertilizer down the toilet every day: your pee. Human urine can be used as a safe and effective crop fertilizer, researchers said. And studies show using ...

Seth True of Best Septic Service, LLC, pumps urine from a 275-gallon tank for transfer to the farm. A family of three can produce this much urine in eight months. Abe Noe-Hays, Rich Earth Institute ...

When customers of Sudwerk Brewery Co. answer nature’s call, they can do their part to help nature. Urine collected in a special outhouse outside the Davis brewery is being used by UC Davis researcher ...

A shortage of chemical fertilizer, worsened by the war in Ukraine, has growers desperate. It just so happens that human urine has the very nutrients that crops need. A funnel for collecting urine in ...

In the last century, synthetic fertilizers have changed the face of the planet. The current world population might be halved if not for this useful development. However, farmers are on the verge of a ...

Removing urine from wastewater and using it as fertilizer has the potential to decrease nutrient loading in water bodies and boost sustainability by making use of a common waste material. In excess, ...