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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Soil remineralization beyond NPK
  • Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:13:50 -0700


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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