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Post by mjc on Sept 5, 2010 20:17:12 GMT -5
We live in Vermont and the compost is uncovered and the summer has been relatively dry, so I do not think water is the issue. Thank you! It could be...but more on 'the lack of' than the 'too much' side of things. |
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Post by starlight1153 on Oct 18, 2010 8:45:52 GMT -5
Growing up the grandparents only had an outhouse their entire lives and they lived to be in the 80's.
As kids we was too chicken to go out at night, and there was always the speckled blue and white kettles with the lid. In the morning those buckets got emptied outside. I don't remember if they used some special method or not, but I do know they got used to feed the grape vines.
We ate those grapes like crazy and never suffered any effects. Course we were kids and was only interested in eating them and how not they grew at the time.
One of the things I wondered about is the use of adding buttermilk and caked yeast to bins? Help? Hurt?
And would it better to have a bin on level ground or a slight slope?
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Post by wildseed57 on Oct 24, 2010 22:26:51 GMT -5
Using human waste is a very old practice, especially in Asia, they use it raw and unprocessed which is why there is so many problems. It is just their way of getting rid of the waste, as there is a unbelievable amount of dwellings in Asia that do not have toilets of any type. This has led to a lot of problems because the bacteria gets into their drinking water and just about everything else. I don't have a problem with it, so long as the temperatures gets hot enough to kill the pathogens especially in the winter time. I have seen some of the newer composting toilets that they have available, and I would love to have one, but there is just no way I could afford one. I think that composting human waste is a good idea, but it would take me awhile to get use to using it in the garden, but if I had the opportunity I think I would go ahead and use it as it would be a good cheap source of compost.
George W.
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Post by Alan on Nov 9, 2010 18:42:29 GMT -5
It has become a wonderful source of feedstock (post thermophilic composting) for the red worms here at Bishop's Homegrown and an excellent source of fortified worm castings for perrinial trees in it's finished state.
Humanure is looked down at by a lot of folks for the "ick" factor, but is it the fact that we are dealing with Feces or the fact that we know that what we ingest as humans isn't very healthy for us. It seems slightly Freuidian to me that we have no problem using the composted waste of farm animals that eat any and everything but that we back away from our own waste.
As time comes and goes and we move deeper into the world ahead, we will come to know that we must make the most of all available fertility resources that are natural, including our own waste stream.
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Post by cornishwoman on Nov 11, 2010 16:22:02 GMT -5
The waste industry in england promotes the land spreading of sewage,well at least they did before I left in the 80s, I remember the quotes "environmentally friendly solution",then came the awful mad cow episode. My grand parents had an out house and the waste was I know turned into the soil and then planted on,it was just the way of life they knew and their parents before them did the same,I don't remember any sterilizing process of the solid waste ,I'm more than sure it was just watered down and spread.I'm still here .I grew up eating from my grandads garden,also the game he shot. But some thing dose bother me about this humanure composting ,the safety factor of it all health wise that is.Alzheimer's rates are rapidly on the increase in england,and if the research is spot on that means more rouge proteins going into public sewers then in turn being being spread on the land to grow those environmentally friendly crops and I remember and I think I'm right,those rouge proteins which they call prions are practically indestructible,so don't let any one who has any signs of Alzheimer's poo in your composting toilet.
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Post by steev on Nov 30, 2010 21:07:32 GMT -5
I've been using a hand-cranked drum composting toilet, made in Canada, on my farm for six years. It's properly vented and very handy. Daytime I don't pee in it though, as I've found that a jug of pee poured down a gopher hole really pisses them off and they can't stand to live where their home is treated so, poor little buggers.
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Post by steev on Nov 30, 2010 21:11:09 GMT -5
Couldn't newer arrivals to this forum be called gerbils or something? It's better to be pissed off than pissed on.
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Post by Alan on Nov 30, 2010 22:57:31 GMT -5
I've been using a hand-cranked drum composting toilet, made in Canada, on my farm for six years. It's properly vented and very handy. Daytime I don't pee in it though, as I've found that a jug of pee poured down a gopher hole really pisses them off and they can't stand to live where their home is treated so, poor little buggers. lol, never thought about that! I do use urine if I'm trying to make terra pretta, put the charcoal fines in a bucket and pee for a few days until it full and good and soaked. I also use it in the summer to sidedress corn, pretty efficiently. |
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Post by mnjrutherford on Dec 1, 2010 8:16:14 GMT -5
Couldn't newer arrivals to this forum be called gerbils or something? It's better to be pissed off than pissed on. ::chuckling:: So far, you are the only one I know of that pisses on gophers... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D |
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