Post by Jared Conner on Jun 21, 2014 1:29:41 GMT
I have found that one of the easiest ways to reduce waste and reuse and recycle nutrients at home is to take nutrients in food scraps and render them usable by composting. And boy, do I need compost, because that's almost essential when it comes to "organic" gardening. Also, I sometimes make homemade bone meal and bone char from chicken bones. This gives me a long lasting, slow feeding source of phosphate. As for potassium,my main organic source of that is wood ash, which has about a 5-15% potassium content. As for the last macronutrient, Nitrogen, I sometimes steal water from my aquaponic system and water my plants with it. Fish waste is really quite useful.