[Homestead] Soil remineralization beyond NPK

Gene GeRue genegerue at ruralize.com
Mon Jan 28 06:13:50 EST 2008


On Jan 27, 2008, at 7:25 PM, Marie McHarry wrote:

>  . . . hell will freeze over before I drag my sorry ass
> outside in subzero weather to crap on the compost heap. Or even crap
> in a bucket that can be emptied on the pile.

I don't know anyone who does it the first way. There is a third way. A  
low-tech version of a Clivus Multrum. Make a luxurious throne at the  
most comfortable and health-sensitive height, facing in the direction  
you prefer. Good light and a bookshelf. Put this in a place where  
there can be two good-sized chambers below floor level. Use lots of  
sawdust. When chamber one is of a good size, swing the deflector to  
send products to chamber two. When chamber two is of appropriate size,  
empty chamber one from the outside.

Seems to me that a good way to use humanure that might be of  
questionable finish would be to scoop out a garden bed, spread the  
humanure, put the soil back on top, then let soil organisms work on it  
for a year.



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