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Urine and Wool in the Rich Earth Demonstration Garden
What happens when you saturate sheep wool with urine and feed it to your soil? The plants in Rich Earth’s demonstration garden say the extra nutrients are pretty tasty! We are observing corn and squash plants grown with urine-saturated wool pellets to be growing larger and greener than plants grown with only compost.
Corn and squash grown with urine-saturated wool pellets incorporated into the soil appear larger and greener than plants grown with only compost soil amendments.
Our crop varieties include the Haudenosaunee Crooked Neck Squash, Algonquin Long Pie Squash, and Abenaki Flint Corn. We are growing these seeds in collaboration with Gedakina as part of their multigenerational endeavor to strengthen and revitalize the cultural knowledge and identity of Native American women and their families from across New England.
For more on wool and urine, check out Amy DuFault’s Fibershed project at MASSTC growing dye plants!
