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Watershed-Friendly Gardening
At Shelburne Farms, Julia Cavicchi presented our “Urine My Garden” workshop. Our partners at Wasted* also introduced their resource-recovery portable toilet service in the greater Burlington area. Image credit: Wasted*
In addition to our work protecting watersheds through supporting urine recycling at the community scale, we are also helping residents learn how to become peecycling practitioners at the home-scale through using urine to fertilize their gardens.
In the southern Connecticut River watershed, we are collaborating with the Connecticut River Conservancy to bring free peecycling education and resources to partners in the CT portion of the Long Island Sound watershed over the course of the next two years, thanks to funding from the Long Island Sound Stewardship Fund.
In the Lake Champlain Basin, we have been teaching community members how fertilizing with urine can help mitigate phosphorus pollution, the primary nutrient of concern in that watershed. Thanks to funding from the Lake Champlain Basin Program, we have already presented to: 4H Vermont Youth Environmental Summit, 350 Burlington, Missisquoi Bay Partners Meeting, Upper Missisquoi and Trout Rivers Wild and Scenic Committee, Winooski Natural Resources Conservation District (WNRCD), and UVM Agroecology program’s Agriculture and the Environment Class, Shelburne Farms, and Middlebury Natural Foods Co-op.
➡️ If you are interested in hosting us for a presentation in your watershed, contact Education Director Julia Cavicchi at
➡️ Visit our events page to join our next ‘Urine My Garden’ webinar.
