Fertilizer from Urine & Sustainable Farms with Tatiana Schreiber of the Rich Earth Institute
Growers Daily
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The Disappointment of Urine
There are pharmaceuticals or metabolites detected in crop tissue. They were detected in very small levels like nanograms per gram or or parts per billion Plant it hormones were not detected in the plant tissue. The highest levels of pharmaceuticals were caffeine and a set of minutemen. You'd have to eat a pound of urine fertilized lettuce every day for 2000 years in order to ingest the equivalent of two cups of coffee.
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