Pee the Change: Growing the Peecycling Movement across Vermont in Communities and Home Gardens

Join Education Director Julia Cavicchi of the Rich Earth Institute to the explore the paradigm-shifting practice of peecycling, featured in the New York Times and CBS. Reclaiming our "waste" as a resource can protect the Lake Champlain Basin watershed and support local farms. Human urine contains vital nutrients for growing crops, and when flushed, contributes to nutrient pollution, causing harmful algal blooms and aquatic ecosystem damage. Instead of becoming pollution, urine can be recycled as a safe, effective fertilizer for farms and gardens. By completing the food nutrient cycle upstream, we can help protect our downstream neighbors and grow an abundance of food from locally sourced nutrients. For over a decade, the Rich Earth Institute operates the nation's first and largest community-scale peecycling program in Brattleboro, VT. Peecycling kits for urine collection will be available for interested event participants to take home after the workshop. Together, we can pee the change!