Making my own fertilizer from my urine in the Yucatan

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I recently read an article written to farmers in India about being able to fertilize their 45m2 garden with their own urine as the total source of fertilizer.  The more I researched it, I found it is true.  Urine is one of the last great natural resources we can get free from ourselves of Nitrogen, Potassium and Phosphates.   When you buy a bag of fertilizer at the store, you will usually see three numbers on the package.  Perhaps it would say: 17-17-17.  Those numbers represent the % of Nitrogen, Potassium and Phosphates.

Today is the 12th, and I began saving my urine last Sunday the 8th.   By this morning I had accumulated almost 15 liters in plastic Coke Lite 600ml bottles.   I ran out of bottles so I decided to start applying to my fruit trees.  (I have 120 trees in my orchard.  20 each of 7 varieties.)


When I finish the fruit trees, then I'll begina program for my 1,000 asparagus plants and then lastly my 500 coconut palm trees that are planted in containers for sale in 5 years.    I have a total of 450m of garden (4500 sq. ft) so I can't do this much with my urine alone.

I've also offered the children and adults in the pueblo money for theirs.  My hope is that they will decline my cash offer and learn to use it for themselves to enrich their own soil and prosper themselves. 

I work and live among the poor of the poor, and I'm living my dream and trying to give my life away to these wonderful Mayan people.  I thank you for reading this and following me on my journey of reclaiming and subduing Yucatan Mexico jungle land into productive ranch and farmland, while teaching my Mayan neighbors how to improve their own lot in life and rise up out of the poverty they exist in.   It's difficult and challenging.  They have 100's of years of traditions to overcome, but I labor on daily in trying to make small changes.

Click here to see a short video I made on my first day of using my pee to fertilize my fruit trees.











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