Agricultural Uses for Urine Fertilizer
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Dry urine fertilizer: a field report
Jenna Senecal is a resource engineer with PhD in Safe Nutrient Recovery from Human Urine – System and Hygiene Evaluation. She is now working on the commercialization of the urine drying technology.
Human urine: A powerful climate change mitigation tool?
John Culpepper has been actively involved in the organics upcycling world for over four decades. He recently co-founded an initiative called Compost for Good, with the goal of helping individuals, organizations, and communities recognize the value of upcycling all organics. John has designed an open-sourced, community-scale, in-vessel composter that is receiving attention from around the world.
Trialing Urine Fertilizer on New Crops and Application Methods
Arthur Davis is Rich Earth’s Program Director and has assisted with many farm partnership research projects. He will report on Rich Earth’s latest farm partnership research, funded by the USDA SARE program, which included field trials on Vermont farms and lab experiments with drip fertigation.
Tatiana Schreiber is the social research director at the Rich Earth Institute, with a particular focus on working with and learning from farmers about their interests and needs.
Urine Fertilizer for Home Gardens: NPK Analysis and Application Methods
Renaud de Looze studied at the Polytechnic University of Brussels. In 1995, he founded the Palmeraie des Alpes, a nursery in Isère (France). He has always experimented with techniques for recycling organic waste and wastewater as fertilizer in the garden and agricultural field. In 2016, following his investigations, he wrote a book “L’urine de l’or liquide au jardin“. With original illustrations by designer Paul Avoine, this book explains how urine can be used as an effective and natural fertilizer. More than just instructions for the home gardener, this book gives information on the legal status and agronomic value of urine, the impact of salt on plants grown with urine, how to fertilize without polluting.
Solar-Dripper Evolutions and 2021 Taste Tests
Robert Cossette is an engineer and eco-entrepreneur born in Montreal, Canada. He now lives in France and is the inventor of the ORIAZ Solar-Dripper.
