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  • From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] More on human waste ideas
  • Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:19:59 -0700

Toni Hawryluk wrote:

Gene suggested :

The most commonsense treatment of humanure is to collect it,
compost it, and then use it for fertilizer for ornamentals and those plants that fruit above-ground: fruit trees, tomatoes, peppers, beans and the like. Humanure composted for a year is indistinguishable from rich soil. Van der Ryn provides here the why and the how.

While I'm waiting my turn for the book at the library ,
I seem to recall reading?hearing that human urine is
"sterile" (from a healthy human, of course) and that
stirred a memory of my Ma, who came from a small
village in 'the old country' (like a lot of others) telling
stories (who doesn't ??) about what the world was
like when she was a child - back in the 1890's. And
where I'm going with this is, that while they had
"toilet" facilities the chamber pot (with urine only)
was dumped on what seems to me to have been a compost heap .... I haven't run across anything like
that in any "this country" literature ....


tvoivozhd---urine is sterile, contains no pathogens---when I was more mobile, was dumped on the compost pile. Too concentrated for spraying on plants, though, will damage leaves. If diluted with water about sixty to one, will not damage leaves, acts like any foliar spray.











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