Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[richard green <greenrw71@hotmail.com>]

They also made the pig pen part of the outhouse, I'm not certain I want part of that bacon. Thus I come face to face with some of my own western phobia concerning humanure. But I agree until we close the loop regarding our own defecation were not truly sustainable. In fact were rather selfish we take and take from nature and give back only that which we've poisoned. The human manure handbook deals with composting it is rather hands on, worms loos require lots of cover material and urine diverting devises. I've due to my geographical location have contemplated the shallow trench method. Either collect the deposits in a container the empty in shallow trench or direct deposit depending on location of closest neighbor, cover deposits with soil plant livestock crops on top. The pathogen chain is broken by not eating what's grow on top. The deposits decompose and enrich the soil. The bed is usable after one year. This works very well in beds that are in a crop rotation. Once again hands on...however if we suffer a loss of public works what choices will we have. Still dont think I want ant of that bacon......

Rick

 

> From: dhondt@eircom.net
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> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:25:40 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] World Hunger Best Cured bySmall-Scale Agriculture
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> In old China there were often public human toilets build over their carp
> ponds for the same purpose. That is really even more necessary for
> sustainability than getting rid of chicken poop from birds that have been
> fed imported grains.
> john
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> > Gene Logsdon in his most recent book Holy Shit describes methods of
> > feeding pond fish by setting chicken coops over them and letting the fish
> > feed directly from the dropped poops.
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