Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[<pbunch@cox.net>]

Thermophilic composting sounds like a good component for home treatment and 
use of human waste streams. I guess this would depend on very careful 
methodology in the hands of responsible, intelligent and/or very well trained 
people.. If applied on a mass scale I suppose good testing and QA/QC would be 
required.

Phil

---- Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us> wrote: 
> On 07/21/2010 10:14 AM, pbunch@cox.net wrote:
> > Several people on the list have mentioned the use of human waste for 
> > agricultural purposes. . .
> >
> > 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
> 
> Joe Jenkins' book THE HUMANURE HANDBOOK is the "bible" on this subject 
> for home recycling of people doo-doo. His approach depends on 
> thermophilic composting of the humanure. He uses the resulting compost 
> without fear, directly on his vegetable garden, without problem for 
> about two decades. Here's the Amazon link:
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/Humanure-Handbook-Guide-Composting-Manure/dp/0964425831/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1279800626&sr=8-1-fkmr1
> 
> ~Harvey
> 
> -- 
> Harvey in northern Va
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> 
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