Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[mdnagel@verizon.net]

Hasn't China been dumping "night soils" on their crops for centuries?  Their "solution" is to cook their vegetables (why stir fry came to be?)


-Mark Nagel
Everett, WA


Jul 21, 2010 09:14:39 AM, livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> >Several people on the list have mentioned the use of human waste for agricultural 
> >purposes. I'm interested in what peoples experience has been with this and what 
> >kinds of precautions people are taking to break the pathogen-human cycles in order 
> >to avoid disease transmission. The World health Organization has done a lot of work 
> >on this and their guidelines are available online. 
> >class="parsedLink" target="_blank">http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/wastewater/gsuww/en/index.html
> >
> >This appears to me to be one of the crucial linkages that will have to be established 
> >in a steady state economy. Nutrient recycling is a fundamental ecosystem function/service 
> >which must be integrated in the closed human-earth system. Of course pathogens have 
> >evolved to exploit this system and we have to assure a reasonable level of safety. 
> >
> >
> >Phil Bunch
> >_