Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Here's a suggestion: use it to fertilize grass to be composted and later 
worked into the food garden.

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. Only 
those who know the most about it can appreciate how little we know about it.
   - Aldo Leopold in  Round River, 1933
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On 5/17/2006 at 11:50 AM Scott Berkey wrote:

>I've read the Humanure Handbook and it's quite a fascinating read, very
>entertaining actually.  In my small circle of friends and family; however,
>I
>seem to be the only one open to trying the idea of compost human manure.
>Everyone else is just too squeamish.
>
>If I remember correctly, the author had his completed compost analyzed
>regularly and it always appeared safe for application to a vegetable garden
>- but even he used it for landscaping and other non-food producing
>purposes.
>
>Regards,
>
>Scott
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: livingontheland-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
>[mailto:livingontheland-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Pat Meadows
>Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 7:46 AM
>To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing
>Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Greywater chemistry
>
>..
>
>There's a book about using humanure.  I haven't read it.
>
>The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure,
>Third Edition (Paperback)
>by Joseph C. Jenkins
>See:  http://tinyurl.com/mru2l
>
>You could also try Googling on 'humanure', 'greywater', and
>'graywater' (note different spellings; I'd try both).
>
>Cheers,
>Pat
>
>--
>Gardening in northern Pennsylvania.
>
>Eat local food, change the world for the better!