How to Make Potassium Nitrate from Scratch: Part One (Making Nitrified Earth)

#shedwars #teamwoodcutter #greencountryagroforestry
The making and extracting of pure nitrates did not have its origins in agriculture, but in warfare .. at one time, numerous methods were practiced routinely by .. well, just about everyone. Although I will not demonstrate the procedure for extracting nitrate crystals from this variation of the Swiss Method, the Black earth that is left in the barrel after one year may be used in exactly the same way one would use 10-10-10 bagged fertilizer.
Here we are, half way through:
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...and, want to know how it all turned out?
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I even did a sugar test to see how effective the nitrate we made was as an oxidizer:
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[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

The entire video sequence is done now (check the description for links!) .. and I WILL take you from building nitrified earth to producing potassium nitrate - if you are willing to watch the process from the beginning to the end. This is a GARDENING video, and all of the work that we are doing here is to help you become a better GARDENER .. We may deal with some basic elements, like nitrate, sulfur, and carbon .. but the aim of this channel is, and always has been to help the individual in their quest for independence .. be that in food independence, or .. Well, you would know your needs better than I. Because I have NO CONTROL over what power hungry statists get elected in my area, I have been careful to NOT arrange information in a way that would be offensive to anyone except the very most ravenous of statists. All the same, I am acutely aware that political winds can change - the very fact that I am revealing how to produce certain basic chemical components from nature might be viewed as "seditious" So be it. Here is the whole of my political screed: Don't vote for the lesser of two evils. In other words: don't support evil. All of the links that you need are in the description. Don't support evil - support LIFE. Peace out.

[@richbattaglia5350]

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[@YodaWhat]

Don't vote for "The lesser of two evils" or as I like to say it, "The evil of two lessers." :-)

[@curve5746]

Let freedom ring

[@Alan-Godden]

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[@samjt007]

Huh, this literally used to be a side hustle for people and now it gets you on a watch list! Very entertaining, thanks!

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Particularly in the British commonwealth .. In the USA, one can still buy Nitrate in mostly pure form - too expensive for fertilizer, but it has other uses.

[@EC-dz4bq]

@@Green.Country.Agroforestry any lowes or homedepot will sell pure potassium nitrate

[@1980Baldeagle]

Stump remover. Available at hardware stores. 8$ a pint.

[@DanielGBenesScienceShows]

@E C & ​@@1980Baldeagle You’ll need to check the label and/or the MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) of the stump remover to be sure. For the sake of safety/liability, most potassium nitrate (KN03) based stump remover sold by many big box hardware stores has been replaced by sodium metabisulfite (Na2S2O5), which is not an oxidizer, so it will not work in the spirit of this video, and will produce toxic gases if burned. As for “stump decomposition”: Potassium nitrate works by supplying nitrogen to naturally occurring fungi which accelerates wood decomposition (or a fuel such as kerosene can be added and the stump burned. I think just building a charcoal fire (save the kno3) over a stump works best, as long as it’s thoroughly doused with water afterwards down to the roots), whereas sodium metabisulfite breaks down lignin (organic polymer) bonds in the wood cell walls. And I’d just stay far away from any stump killer containing the herbicide, ‘Picloram’ (which was used in the deadly compound “Agent Orange” during the Vietnam War)

[@skepticalgenious]

Naw man. We can study anything we want. There is info in how to make dmt to surgical procedures or diy rockets. It's what your intentions are. No silly watch list. Knowledge is cool.

[@morganflaherty9582]

And thank you very much for continuing my education into my apocalypse projects well technically it's pandemic but apocalypse sounds funnier

[@trupyrodice4462]

Give it time my friend, because that's what's coming... yes, even here in America. There is a purge in progress. At least that's what the preponderance of evidence leads some of us to believe. A new order and system of things needs to be put into place for or civilization to continue and advance at the steady pace we've had the luck to enjoy for the past 100 years or so. With covid being unleashed -and you can be certain that it was- from the wuhan lab. Below is part of the report stating that in April of 2018 state department officials sent to warnings to Washington saying they were worried that the wuhan lab is at risk of releasing a SARs like virus: Information obtained from diplomatic cables on 14 April. They show that, in 2018, US science diplomats were sent on repeated visits to a Chinese research facility. Officials sent two warnings to Washington about the lab. The column says the officials were worried about safety and management weaknesses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and called for more help. It also claims diplomats were concerned the lab's research on bat coronaviruses could risk a new Sars-like pandemic. The newspaper says the cables fuelled more recent discussions in the US government about whether the WIV or another lab in Wuhan could have been the source of the virus behind the current pandemic. Suspicious? Yeah, me too. Also consider the fact that the particular bat that carries this virus lives thousands of miles away from wuhan on the other side of the county. That is one magic a$$ bat. Seriously. What are the odds that this one bat just happened to be the host of the very strain of human coronavirus, flew to that particular are, that houses the exact lab that studies this exact bat, for that exact disease. Hmmm... Anyway, hardship is coming -fast- and they wont be able to hide the fact that we have consumed all the stockpiles and overproduction. You see it in the stores, all the missing items leaving blank spots on the shelves. I digress, just do a bit of research, learn all you can about everything. The best defense it the best offense.

[@morganflaherty9582]

Well I made it up into the mountains borderline middle of nowhere having a blast here love it and still researching hobbies mainly focusing on woodworking at the moment at least until my Ford shows up

[@joshhanequiez841]

Agreed

[@SammyNeverEver]

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[@tormentor2285]

remember to practice, just watching this... you will forget everything when the time comes

[@worlore1651]

the saying "haven't got a pot to piss in" comes from the great depression and it means the absolute poorest of the poorest, some people would pee in pots and sell their urin for money (not sure if it was for this) and some people were so poor that they didn't even have a pot to piss in so that's where the saying is from.

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

If you could capture ALL of the urea from one adult over a year, it amounts to about 3.75 kg of nitrate .. that's a lot of fertilizer!

[@simonyeptho3485]

Jason avers what shall we do with that nitrate extract from urine..🤔🤔

[@MrGrxxx123]

Leather tanners would buy it too

[@Nighthawkinlight]

Fyi, as one with some Exp licensing experience: you don't strictly need a license to make your own BP in respect to federal regs (though state regs are likely to have tighter restrictions). You do need a license to store and transport the powder. Basically it comes down to making and using or destroying the powder all in the same day on the same piece of land. It's for that reason that exploding targets are legal, as they use binary components and don't become regulated for storage/transport until mixed. The unfortunate truth is that despite falling within the letter of the law, making your own BP for immediate use does still have the potential to get you into an uphill battle to prove no intent to make a "destructive device" if local authorities don't like the look of what you're doing.

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

As an outspoken critic of government, particularly the inherent immorality of it .. I give them enough reasons to not like the look of what I'm doing as it is 😁 I really liked your demonstration of the Tesla valve WITH FIRE a couple years ago .. very visually satisfying!

[@shawntilton9170]

There are a hundred KZbin videos on how to make black powder. They are all correct in the ingredients. So, there's no need to make another video about it. Furthermore, you need only Google how to make gun powder. Three simple ingredients. Ingredients that you can buy, or make yourself. Sulfur being the most difficult to find in pure form.

[@John.Doe-OG]

Maybe we'll see a version of this on your channel one day. Just please don't film yourself peeing in the bottle like Grant (TKOR) did in a video years ago. lol

[@MrBilld75]

Very informative. I was wondering what the finer points of the laws are (even though I'm not American, but Canadian gun laws are similar and even stricter in some ways), yet surprisingly lenient in others. And that "all in the same day" explanation and intent, made it so much clearer. As I was wondering what logic was behind it, now it makes perfect sense. It's much the same for us in Canada and pepper spray. It's illegal to carry, but not "depending on intent". It is sold as "dog/animal deterrent" and legal for only that purpose. What they have to prove (and you never admit to) is your intent. Self defence from human? Nope, not allowed. But as an "animal deterrent" perfectly fine, hehe. It's ALL about the intent. Same with my stun baton. Stun guns and tasers are illegal here, but not stun batons, because of a livestock loophole. As long as they are a "long prod" that doesn't fire projectiles like a taser gun, or is easily concealed like a stun gun, they are legal, because they are a cattle prod. But these things have flashlights at the end, with a flash function, some even have small pyramid spikes, lol. Quite obviously a self defence item, no cattle prod has that. But they nevertheless, can't stop them from being sold here because they meet the requirements of a cattle prod.

[@victorbunch7725]

Anything you buy a permit for you give up your god given rights!!!

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

It is coming up on one year since I started the barrel 'o chips with the urea -> ammonia -> nitrate process, and it is just about time to see how well it went. This week, I will be getting some calcium carbonate (wood ash) while making charcoal, and next week we should be able to try a little extraction. Expect video somewhere about mid June, woohoo!

[@keidanmeradi8085]

please film how much potassium nitrate you extracted. I am very interested to find out. thanks.

[@larrysavoy6804]

@@keidanmeradi8085 very interested

[@jimmysrandomness]

Thanks for this educational video👍👍

[@jonasandersson7367]

While youre onnthere apocalypting heres something really useful, it takes roughly 6 hours for bacteria in a wound to multiply, it can be very well combatted by use of granulated sugar packing after cleaning and debridement, repack about six times per day or when the sugars turns to syrup from wound liquid to drie it out and inhibit bacterial growth through sugar shock.. basically youre jamming" yourself so sayeth the book ditch medicine.

[@TheRojo387]

I seem to think that urine makes ammonium nitrate on its own with the bacteria present in it on excretion.

[@TheTinkerersWife]

Glad I saved this to my watch later list. You find the most interesting historical info. Good for a chuckle and more. Never boring that's for sure.

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Thank you, Patti! This series still has one part to go, sometime in June, I think - part III will make a good #shedwars21 video. I am working at getting all 4 captains together on the weekly 'garden variety show' .. if not this coming Wednesday, one day soon!

[@FrankAndTinaOfficial]

Now this is for sure what we need to learn! Great job Jason!

[@kentuckywindage222]

New Subscriber! I love this kind of material. Knowledge from our ancestors is important to pass on and sometimes what seems the smallest thing is huge later on. Thank you my friend! Keep'em coming!

[@sharkozym]

Wow!! You learn something new every day! Thank you for sharing this very important but lost art of making things from our own environment that will help our environment and in our protection if we ever need to further refine this fertilizer!! Great video. Shark

[@cindysplace]

You have a very good speaking voice. You make a good narrator. I really don't know much about this subject. Ive learned something new. Thank you for explaining this. Really interesting!

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

With easily recoverable sources of Phosphorous becoming harder to find, its nice to know that there are still .. alternatives to commercial fertilizer

[@destructwime0225]

I've*

[@hughezzell10000]

So here's what Tex left off on the end of his video. He showed the startup of the whole process. What's going on is bacteria, while doing the composting, fixes the nitrogen from his urea into various forms of nitrified compounds (ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, etc) depending on the bacteria present in his compost feed stock. For the first 5 or 6 months, he 'feeds' the bacteria with the urea (his pee contains about 2% urea by weight) and he dilutes that with the bucket of water before applying). He applies the urea to the compost gradually and, over time the entire barrel becomes saturated with urea and ammonical compounds mixed with moisture - not too much moisture that's why the holes in the bottom. Also you want to use composting medium that absorbs and holds water (mix the chopped sticks and straw with the leaves) so the mixture stays kind of fluffy. You dont want your compost getting sticky or gummy. I'd suggest slowly trickling the urea water over the compost instead of pouring it. It's only 5 gallons every week. Then, over the last 5 or 6 months, no more urea is added and the composting proceeds to completion. While the composting process proceeds, bacteria favoring nitrate, no3, predominate and form that salt. Also, at the same time, the pile warms up and moisture preferentially migrates upward where it evaporates at the top of the heap/barrel. At this interface, the salts, which travelled with the moisture fall out of solution and form crystals of sodium nitrate. Potassium nitrate, actually, isn't created in the barrel, only sodium nitrate. The sodium nitrate crystals grow until they can be harvested by scraping off with an instrument of one sort or another. This harvesting process happens more easily with a harder, smooth surface, hence the topping of the pile in the barrel with soil. I'd add the soil after finishing up with the urea. You'd want the moisture migration to work as effeciantly as possible, so insulating the barrel as best as you can would help. Also, you dont want too much water travelling thru the barrel in the first 6 months because you dont want to leach out any nitrates through the bottom. Sodium nitrate is extremely soluble in water, so if you have water exiting the bottom, you can be sure any nitrate you've created up to that point is in that water. Recycling that water might be a solution to the leaching problem. Better, you add the urea and water in just the right amount to keep the compost moist, but not wet. If you're lucky and have done it right, the sodium nitrate crystals will form on the surface and you can harvest them. Sodium nitrate is hydroscopic, likes to absorb water from the air. That makes it sucky for black powder, so you want to make it into potassium nitrate which isnt. That's done by dissolving the sodium nitrate in cold water and slowly adding either potassium hydroxide or wood ashes (which are approximately the same) slowly. You'll see a white cloudy substance form in the water which is the KNO3 (it's a simple replacement reaction). Let that settle, pour out the solute (clear water portion) and discard the salt water or lye water. Then, depending on your application, you can recrystallize the KNO3 to purify it, and use filtration and settling to clear up the liquid. Look up the Foxfire series of books. In there they use cave dirt to harvest and make KNO3. They use turnips (?) to clarify the hot mixture after converting the nitrates to the potassium form. I've seen Cody's lab use gravimetric settlement in a clear plastic jug. I suspect you could find other clarifying chemicals to achieve it too. Everyone should at least try to do this in their spare time to learn how to do it. But buy your KNO3 for use now. You cant make it cheaper than you can buy it. Also, if you're interested in trying it, you should try other sources of nitrogen such as manures and animal urine. I'm also wondering about just using diluted blue def which is 32% urea. I think I'd try to keep potassium out of the compost heap to begin with (bananna peels and other high potassium plants) because if KNO3 is advertantly formed, it'll stay in place unless you wash the compost with hot water, which will result in a muddy mess.

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

There you go .. and that is, of course why I haven't shown more of the process .. it will take a whole year for it to complete, and right now, we are at about the half way point - time for an update, I think 😊👍 Although most of the black dirt that is being made in that barrel is going to go out to the garden as-is, I'll reserve a small portion for demonstrating hot water leeching a la Joseph Leconte (leConte's paper is still searchable online, if anyone is too impatient to wait another 4-5 months :p)

[@georgiangeileanu9792]

I didnt read it :( its too long :))

[@Enderbro3300]

So could I, instead of poking holes in the bottom, just put a tap or single hole in the bottom and just put a 5 gallon bucket under it? That would probably solve the problem of flushing out the sodium nitrate right?

[@LazykidsWorld]

What's blue def?

[@NostraquedeoTX]

@@LazykidsWorld def is diesel exhaust fluid. Most modern diesel engins require it to conform with national emissions requirements.

[@YeloPartyHat]

Great video, I love the interesting facts placed in between showing the history of the process and engaging your audience.

[@SustainablyYoursHomestead]

This was very informative! I like taking a scientific approach to gardening/homesteading. Off to watch the rest of the series!

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@JamesWhite-tg4kw]

Be sure to use a plastic barrel that had food grade material in it not Is some kind of chemical

[@novadude75]

I have to agree that you are one good story teller/host, sir. If I didn't think that, I'd be onto another 10 vids by now.

[@lb6817]

Enjoyed watching this quite a bit. Much love from Ethiopia.🇪🇹 Keep doing what you're doing folks.

[@jasonmorello1374]

For those that holds larger livestock, cattle, goats, sheep, horses (pigs don't well for this point), you can use this to recycle the straw bedding you need to clean out of their stalls every so often. I particularly noticed this starting out with some sheep years ago, as the bedding was a layered and packed sodden mass. For this, it would be an excellent start, but as we did back then, it also worked as layer in composting. Increases pile variety, which both speeds maturity a little, and adds the nitrates to the ending mass. Also, layers of bio char(incomplete burned organic materials)and ash will give more actions to the compost, and lower the fumes quite a bit, especially the ash, as it will react with the methane and H2S readily.

[@Junzar56]

Just found your channel, I love the historical background on this! With the cost of fertilizer this is really helpful! How tos on blood meal and bonemeal would be great, too.

[@GrievousPlay]

You’re so informative and clear , thanks

[@robertlombardo8437]

I'd just like to point out, since Jason did elsewhere, that black powder is legal to manufacture in small amounts for *purely personal* use. But you have to keep it exclusively for yourself and be very careful about storing it and using it, because it is indeed an explosive and a potentially hazardous material when mixed. Personally, I'm a man of harmless curiosity and a backyard scientist. I like to make black powder just so I can light a tiny pile of it outside and watch the flames smoulder and the smoke drift around. Like my own personal fireworks (which is another hobby where homemade black powder is used!)

[@connermccaughey3911]

One thing to keep in mind is that even if it is for personal use, you may still need a liscence to manufacture if you monetize a video since that could be considered commercial use. Im not a lawyer so I could be mistaken, Ordnance Lab did a video outlining the basic legality of personal manufacturing of explosives.

[@alexanderthewise1352]

Some words of wisdom there. I literally have the same plans to make a little and ignite some in the yard. Well, some KNO3 for the garden, too.

[@amberkat8147]

Do you ever add other elements like copper to get different colors?

[@xntumrfo9ivrnwf]

@@connermccaughey3911 haha this is EXACTLY what I wanted to reply with - you beat me to it. I also remember that excellent video by Ordinance Lab

[@blankablueboy1501]

The main thing we need to remember to do is fear and bow to our government owners.

[@ClickinChicken]

Or that Star Trek episode where Kirk figures out how to make gunpowder and that lizard guy is after him. lol

[@WhatWeDoChannel]

Very informative, extremely interesting! A good thing to have stored away in the back of my mind, just in case! Klaus

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Yep .. its good to have options 😉

[@reallyskeptical]

Probably stored in the yard!!! 10mths is a long time. Better to have, not need it, than not have it and need it.

[@samuelbrackin5175]

Thank you for the video I would have never guessed that process. I just started watching your videos and they are really informative of lost thins from the past I really appreciate your knowledge

[@questioneverything42]

You are a amazing human and I love you! I hope all our good brothers and sisters are out there right now. Waking up and finding out that we are something very special we're not puny humans. When we all work together is A amazing feeling!! Love the content brother

[@Bashmit]

I could listen to you explain shut all day! Great video keep up the good work

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Thanky Kindly, will do!

[@homesteadaquariusviewmaste3630]

Fantastic video Jason. Wonderful history and great job not going over the line on information. They took down some of my favorite channels for that.

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

I could have probably shown the procedure for extracting the finished product, but I would have likely had to flag it for 18+, and I didn't want to do that .. for GARDENING purposes, this was just enough info.

[@dalekehrer2421]

"THEY" that withhold historical information because of being corrupt and paranoid are violating the first amendment and substituting a constitutional republic for fascism.

[@DownunderFarmandForge]

Nice to meet you tonight, always great to watch another channel that throws in some history and science on their videos.

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

History is a gift to story tellers .. good tales are like rough gemstones, just needing to have the dust knocked off of them in order to shine. Hopefully, I;ll dig up a few more for you 😊

[@chukwuemerie]

@@Green.Country.Agroforestry What about dissolving raw potash in water?

[@dovel1000]

Definitely informative and entertaining. Thanks man.

[@DebsWay]

Interesting...thanks for sharing!

[@bencrawshaw1227]

Yeah I've always wanted to do this.Chemistry is awesome.

[@johnpeterson7264]

Excellent video ! Happy composting !

[@kellynrosebrock7404]

This was very educational, Loved your video.

[@VoonChile]

You are a true walking, breathing, talking, encyclopedia...but more! I love your brain!

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

I used to read them when I was a kid, before the internet .. interesting books, but they keep changing the subject 😜 Thanks, Voon!

[@bungieflute]

@@Green.Country.Agroforestry I used to get in trouble so I could read encyclopedias and the dictionary and thesaurus, truly warped twisted and bizarre. The greatest comment I got from mentioning this to someone was-You read books? - thats stupid, yeah well I know the names of all three musketeers and D`Artagnon, plus yo mama got an afro with a chin strap ---} --> --> --> like my little bow and arrows just made em up {bonus}jajajajajaja

[@chopsddy3]

I’ve been wasting a valuable product AND wearing out my pump flushing it!?!? AND paying for electricity to participate in this folly!?!? That ends today. Subscribing . Most informative and entertaining pee pouring I’ve ever experienced.👍

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Thanks! I'm planning on getting into the barrel some time this week, and seeing if its ready - it should be about done by now :)

[@chopsddy3]

@@Green.Country.Agroforestry Glad to hear it. I finally have a use for my big blue drum. More food ,less space ! You nailed it. The over centralized production of food, and virtually everything else, is the perfect recipe for rotting the fabric and various local cultures of this nation. The more knowledge of the old skills ,the better your chances of living free from economic tyranny and the whims of international hedge fund operators. Pardon my rant, but I just bought a can of store brand Walmart mushrooms. I live in a state famous for growing mushrooms. The canned mushrooms came from the Netherlands. Don’t get me wrong, I love Holland, but this is ridiculous! Not to mention Chinese frozen juices, but I’ve said enough. Keep up the good work.😁👍 P.S. Call me a Luddite. I don’t care.

[@BrownLogan]

Loved the history and education found in the video

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I’m subbing. I love history. Can’t see what else is on this channel. TV doesn’t stand a chance against this type of wisdom being gifted to the audience.

[@NuculearFallout1]

Man this is a great video! Definitely earned my subscription on this one.

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Lol I felt the same. That big bucket of piss ok dude I'll subscribe. 😂

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Welcome aboard!

[@jacobpottala]

Compelling commentary, entertaining and extremely informative.

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Thanks!

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Very interesting I've subscribed to your channel and look forward to more of your informative videos thank you for your knowledge and willingness to share it

[@onetransmission7871]

History repeats itself. With your help we should be able to go back 250 years. Thank you very much for the help!

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The western world needs more people like you. Great information!

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We are all brothers in this.

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Become ungovenable

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Your weren’t already?

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Good to know, THANKS FOR THE INFO.

[@turleytho]

Good show and good info. Thank you.

[@eastrockaway11518]

Loved the history lesson, I would’ve like to have seen BARREL to BARREL! This was a great primer

[@paulgardner845]

I have made my own BP for quite some time now. Works well, and I do hunt with it. There is a lot on line for the making of BP for those that are interested.

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Although this is really a video about making nitrates for gardening, I do prefer black powder for shooting than the substitute .. the burn rate is better suited for propelling a ball, and makes the shot more accurate.

[@antoniiocaluso1071]

Great presentation! Tanx!

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LOVE YOUR SHOW. GOD BLESS US ALL

[@christinamoneyhan5688]

I’m so thankful that our freedoms have not been or being infringed on because I really like gardening in the 20th and 21st century. My plants just keep producing more and more of the freedom seeds. Thank you for the fertilizer tip.👍👍👍🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸😎✌🏻

[@michaellynch1159]

Fertilizer Prices are getting outrageous.this knowledge will be invaluable.

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Saves a good amount of water too - most bathroom trips are for #1, and that's a lot of drinking water that gets flushed!

[@toygartumer]

OMG this video is EXACTLY what I was looking for

[@judyrobertson5564]

Good video I enjoyed it very much. Thank you for your time. God bless you and yours.

[@morganflaherty9582]

I found quite a nice bit of informative and this guy pee work just as well as well as I hope you have further videos to tell how to extract the potassium nitrate from the other ingredients

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

I'm filming the update video today, showing the progress towards nitrified soil after 5 months .. extraction wont take place until next summer, once the biological process has finished.

[@hoperules8874]

Thanks for this! There is no soil in my yard at all-it's all sand! I have piled every kind of organic matter up to be garden foundations but my plants still struggle! Every little bit helps my squash & corn and hopefully tomatoes and potatoes as well!

[@mountainmanjim]

Fantastic story ! and thanks for your message of peace

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love your energy

[@Kudeghraw]

Here is the rest of the information he is not allowed to share: The tank should have a tap installed at the bottom. After 10ish months you harvest the liquid via the tap. You boil down the liquid until it is 1/4 of the initial quantity. Dip something into the reduced liquid to see if it crystalizes. If it does, you know it is done. Next step is freezing as fast as you can. Set the container in an ice bath. Enjoy the crystals! Edit: You have to boil it with wood ash to get the stuff that cannot be mentioned. Kind of like making lye, but not.

[@Manoeljoel]

Thx a lot, bro

[@bryanrawls4794]

Nice video. I use lots of potassium for my tomatoes and also its good for any other variety of fruits and vegetables. Buying nutrients for your garden definitely gets expensive. Worm castings are my best additive.

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Buying inputs sure is expensive! We are fortunate to be able to pick up as much wood chip as we want from Tulsa's municipal green waste site - I sometimes run it through a 1/4" sieve to collect the fine bits for our worm bins.

[@manyminihomesteading9873]

Very informative!!! Your videos always are!

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Thank you! This one will be nice to update on every so often .. the level will shrink considerably over the year .. and make some of the blackest earth you have ever seen 😊

[@manyminihomesteading9873]

@@Green.Country.Agroforestry I'm looking forward to seeing the progress

[@lambbrookfarm4528]

Thanks for sharing, Brice

[@jolllyroger1]

You must collect everything that comes out the holes in the bottom.... Line the bottom with a fine cloth covered in an inch or 2 of fine white ash.... this is your filter Collect all that comes out the bottom You can initially return it to the top. What collects below will be your high nitrate which you will refine to make black powder

[@davey2k12]

Did you make the jollyRoger disk on the Atari ST back in the day 😅

[@daltondickens1848]

I remember reading, that during the War Between the States, that Southern Ladies collected urine from chamber pots and collected them in large barrels to support the war effort. I see that you mention that here. They also had chamber pots with the picture I think of Burnside.

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Isn't it interesting: 160 years is not long, just the span of two lifetimes, but so much has changed since then. A chamber pot or thunder jug would have been a commonplace item then.

[@tattooedgardener]

Sir, this video was awesome because I learned so much

[@chrismaddox15]

Great info, thanks.

[@dudebroski9460]

I subscribed, this was awesome, i laughed, i contemplated, i gagged a little.... There is just something horrible about 5 gallons of pee in one place at one time. This was fantastic, thank you. I look forward to seeing what you do in the future.

[@amberkat8147]

Then I probably should not give you a partial list of all the things urine/aged urine used to be used for, huh?

[@dudebroski9460]

@@amberkat8147 i mean, im a man. i pee on all kinds of things. trees, tires, dirt, snow, the thought of urine doesnt bother me, but for some reason 5 gallons, even a year later is one of the grossest thing i can think of, and i know how to brain tan leather.

[@WarriorGnome]

Nobody gonna steal it-- but than again what a surprise they would get. 😂

[@ScottHead]

Interesting for sure. You can also use dea leaves, so I have read.

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Yes, leaves would work as well .. less final volume, a little higher in nitrogen, but better than grass or straw for P and K

[@vincecallagher7636]

Thank, good garden info

[@federicomachon8841]

Greetings from Peten Guatemala Love the video thanks I wish you all the best

[@austinmesta9862]

Water and ashes makes potassium hydroxide solution which will do the extraction without bacterial digestion. It'll also be exothermic and it'll cook even in winter outside and I imagine they had more ashes in the winter time.

[@moyai2555]

how

[@IowaKim]

Thank you for this. I have been composting for about 5 years, and after a camping trip using my 5 gallon bucket chamber pot (use a pool noodle slitted and on the rim for a soft seat) it dawned on me that I was missing a major component and resource made daily for composting. So I will at start using my chamber pot at home and add its goodness to my compost pile. Very important now that fertilizer is going to be scarce.

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Sounds great! Composted #1 is usable within the year, and #2 takes about 2 years to become garden-ready. Joseph Jenkins wrote a nifty little manual called "The Humanure handbook" .. in its fourth printing now! It has more info on complete waste recycling, so to speak 😊

[@carlshowalter9629]

Great to know! Thank you.

[@WarriorGnome]

Just love to garden naturally with all the natural useful byproducts. Thank you for making my hobbies cheaper.

[@demitaylor6266]

Man thank you for the video. I know humaninure is a method of composting and the Mennonites/Amish still use this method..I have adopted it also. God Bless.

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Thanks for sharing

[@jounik8980]

Israel use human waste to grow orange

[@AircondGypsy]

thanks nice presentation. you should consider adding some charred wood to your mix. the carbon will provide a matrix for the micro biome to live in for decades and will impart to the soil you are making a rich structure in which microbes can live. this structure will not degrade over time and will continue to benefit your soil. Also the process you're doing will inoculate the carbon matrix while decomposition is taking place making it ready to be useful.

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

I've considered getting a trammel to pre sift the wood chips .. then I can make bio char out of the large pieces and mix them in, regardless of which method I'm using to compost. There's always something that needs doing, huh?

[@IntheBlood67]

Most Excellent!

[@p0k7lm]

tnx 4 excellent valuable video !👍☺📚✏

[@tcwaterdrill]

So where did they get the 55 gal plastic drums back then?

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Oh, the same place we get them today - let some yahoo go flying down the highway without securing their load, and they wind up falling out, then just go pick them up and take them home. Stop by the recycling center on the way to get some $$ for the aluminum cans you picked up, too. If you aren't involved in an 'adopt a highway' program, you could always go to a cooper, and have him make one out of wood for you. 🤣

[@CKILBY-zu7fq]

Cool, can you imagine how lush the world would be if we all did this?

[@ChaosAngel667]

The smell is not pretty and not something that you want to do on an apartment complex. If you have a huge yard sure this will help you produce fertilizing, as much as you can produce pee but its not an easy task after a while.

[@jbstepchild]

What a great Lil channel that k you very much for sharing

[@timfoley3189]

Your the respectable shadetree surgeon!

[@jasons-jungle]

Excellent Video. Urine has alot more uses than just black powder. In the North East Of England exporting urine was just behind coal and ship building. It was collected in buckets in Taverns and along the docks of Newcastle and was supposed to be the finest in all England. One major use of it was to full out fabric - specifically a woolen fabric called Tweed. Tweed was the favorite durable fabric of the aristocracy, many of whom wore it in the House of Lords (the upper house in UK government). People from Newcastle are called Geordies and we were well proud that for decades the ruling elite smelt like Geordie @!$%

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Ha! We always knew that something reeked in parliament 😁 That Newcastle brown ale is world famous.

[@qwertyuiop-rg4mj]

@@Green.Country.Agroforestry I feel like I should mention that people who sold their piss to make this is where the British term "piss poor" originated from :)

[@beachbear368]

The old method of curing leather also made use of urine.

[@carlg7190]

When you get the end product, about how much do you dilute it with regular dirt, and also, what if you have sandy soil? Plus I’m curious, if you had a farm back in the colonial times, does it improve the quality of the soil so much that the increased crop yield would be more profitable than just selling it off as saltpeter?

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

About a handful per square foot for top or side dressing should be sufficient - it makes a good substitute for bagged commercial fertilizer, even better for sandy soil, since it contains a fair amount of organic material, and will continue to release nitrates as the wood particles break down over time. Sandy soil is both a blessing and a curse - its loose and well draining, which is good, but amendments get flushed out easily, which isn't .. adding organic material, mulch, and clay will help keep nutrients close to the root zones of your plants. The professional nitre collectors would get their product from many sources in order to conduct a profitable business - the lone farmer would likely enjoy better vegetables for their own table than the small amount of coin that selling off their nitre could earn them.

[@richardlilley6274]

Thank you' from Yorkshire England" for sharing your knowledge

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Our pleasure! Reading up on Charles I was worthwhile, it would seem 😁

[@Prepare2Prosper]

I don't know why this popped up in my feed but I'm glad it did. Great way to make fertilizer or other stuff if we need to.

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@marschlosser4540]

When Louis 14th of France needed this for black powder, he commandeered all urine barrels in France. Cloth dyers revolted (ammonia sets colors). Someone told him about horse urine, but how to get it? They had every stable in France scraped of dirt, soaked that, drained the water, filtered it well, and cooked it down.

[@badassbees3680]

Look into stump remover ,it's interesting

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Some stump remover IS pure KNO3 .. but that would be cheating 😉

[@johannesvanhoek9080]

Super cool, thank you sir

[@cristianpopescu78]

Very interesting.Waching this make a lot of fun👍..I will try this too.Thanks

[@jhyland87]

3:48 more like _pEEEEEEEWWWs..._ I know, that was lame. I'll see myself out.

[@kelvinsparks4651]

🤣🤣🤣

[@ArkansasWoodcutter]

You packing brother? 😳. This is great information although disgusting.

[@maryistulsafox]

I would say that is definitely open carry. LOL Where would you conceal that?

[@VoonChile]

LOL

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Always! If you think THAT's disgusting, check out how fish emulsion is made .. peee-yew! 😁🐟

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

@David Hotaling's Channel Well, if its so obvious, I may as well just start wearing the Glock 21 .. you never know if the armadillos are going to bring back-up 😁

[@markkane3989]

really cool, subbed

[@alexbarry689]

How are you going to go about telling us how to do a process but not finish it. I can buy refined potassium nitrate at the hardware store it's not dangerous to just tell us how to make our own. This is for edification.

[@ClickClack_Bam]

Because this guy is an "Info Asshole" . Only HE HIMSELF is educated enough, refined enough, worthy & holy enough to have the full info he's presenting here. Then on the weekends around his buddies he complains that nobody knows this info anymore & it needs to be shared more. Like you said this info is everywhere & he's full of shit that he legally can't tell you the entire formula. I just went on 10 yt channels that gives you several ways to do this.

[@petergray6867]

@@ClickClack_Bam mix the potassium with charcoal black powder your welcome

[@maryistulsafox]

With the CCP virus floating around a lot of places, shippers and receivers, just offer Porta-Johns to drivers and not real restrooms. And it'd be kind of rude to pee in the parking lot. But they might offer better restroom, just saying.

[@maryistulsafox]

😳tmi

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

You could do a vlog .. just don't .. show .. that part 😜

[@maryistulsafox]

I'll say this for the bug, truck stops are getting cleaned more.

[@hiimryan2388]

Tulsa Fox can you not call it ccp virus?

[@maryistulsafox]

@@hiimryan2388 why not?

[@ntgon]

Sir, you're a national treasure. Thankyou for your wisdom.

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

So nice of you

[@p0k7lm]

thanks for valuable video , excellent ! 📚👍☺

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Most welcome!

[@stonehead6257]

Very useful information thank yu

[@barbdouglas3197]

Thank you for the 'simple', and intelligent way to help me take better care of myself and my family, and anyone else interested in improving their ability to 'live well'!👵😇 God's blessings to you and yours.

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Thank you so much!

[@jorgedoering6952]

Great approach! Very interesting info. GOD bless you.

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Thanks, you too!

[@devontobias5273]

You sir are a stone cold badass, loved the old saying funny as hell very informative thank you

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

I appreciate that 😎

[@drooten]

I appreciated your candid explanation of where you obtain your urine from. To start with I was worried I’d be following the dog around with a container. So much easier knowing I can just send my wife off to work with one.