What's up everyone? Welcome back to the epic gardening podcast coming at you again from San Diego. I was gone for most of this week in Maine again for a wedding

Which is great because the fall was just about to fall, it was about to happen and that's something

that I don't experience too much living out here in San Diego.

So it's really cool to see that, at least the beginnings of it.

And I actually came across a cool biodynamic organic certified farm

out there called Frinkle Pod Farm, which I thought was just really neat.

And I'm going to do an episode on that this week as well. But today's

episode is about something called Anthroponics and I heard about this from my

friend Josh who emailed me and he said hey this is just something you just you might not know about and he was right I didn't know about it and so before I get into it

common terms for anthroponics also known as peeponics

urine poonics

humonia or bioponics now you might be guessing that this has to do with human bio waste.

So let's do some definitions first.

Hydroponics is growing plants without soil where we use nutrients or nutrient solutions in water to grow plants.

Acoponics is when you add fish to that equation, use the fish waste to

to act as the nutrient source for the plants after they go through a natural conversion

cycle via bacteria. However, people have started to use urine.

Now, the reason why they're using urine is because human urine is a source of ammonia

and that will start the cycling process in an aquaponic system because ammonia is also what comes out of fish waste and then nitrites and then nitrates and then nitrates via the bacteria.

Now, people are using aged human urine.

This is interesting.

It sounds kind of weird, sounds kind of gross,

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