I agree. I've been living off the grid for 8 years in North Carolina, composting humanure and fertilizing our fruit trees with it. Composting humanure and collecting rainwater are probably the two biggest factors making me feel self-reliant. Gotta close that poop loop! Cheers
In the world, we can eliminate all kinds of crises with these kinds of simple solutions. The happy and peaceful life lies in simple things. The moment we disconnected nature and eco-living, the world's mental health gets worst. You guys bringing great awareness. Be Blessed!
Keep the poop in the loop! I leave my humanore compost to break down by worms for three years. By then it's pure wormcastings. Every year I get this beatiful material to use on my beds. It gives nutrients to my vegetables, wich I eat... Great video! 💚
Close the Poop Loop! Love it, this was such an awesome video. I now understand fully why it works. I’ve been reading a lot lately about soil health and soil building and I came across the term “green water.” That is the amount of water the soil can hold based on the amount of “interstices” (word of the day), spaces that are available for water retention. Spongy organic matter is one of the biggest contributors for this in the soil and the more organic matter you have, the more evenly the soil can absorb the water. My mind was blown. Thank you for making this video. I can’t wait to see the difference after a few years on this space you are building up. Great job! ~ Katie
Awesome! Soil health is so important. The best way to store rainwater is right in the soil where it's needed. The best way to increase water absorption in soil, organic matter.
I've used tree bark anything that was on the ground to mix in with my compost a good bit of leaf cardboard boxes scrap wood sawdust depends on where I was at it always turned into church from my garden and still does I live in Oregon now
Egg shells and bones take a looooong time to break down. This year, I've started grinding up my egg shells before putting in the compost (or directly on the ground)
@@ourselfreliantlife I have been watching you for about a year and came back to this video again for my own research. For eggshells, I bought a cheap coffee grinder to break them down. In the fall, I add a mixture of this and ground banana peels to my garden. Over the time until I plant again, It is far more easily accepted into the soil.
I screen my finished compost and whatever chunks are left go in the new compost!! Theres a corn cob or 2 that I swear have been in there 5 years!!!!! 🥗🥗🥗
Just thought of something my grandmother used to fo was throw the empty eggshells back in the coup with them. Supposed to make their next bunch of eggs stronger.
I can't believe I've just sat and listened to someone talking Crap for 16 minutes lol. Great videos you guys are making. Seen acres of your videos in the past never had a look as there's so much click bait on RUclips that puts me off from watching people's videos, but your simple septic system got my attention and I'm glad I had a look to see. There was a family hear in the UK around 15 years ago that went sort of off grid and had a TV series called "It's not easy being green" and it was fantastic. Might I suggest you collect and use your pee-urine to further break down your compost and straw, as it's very high in natural nitrogen. 👏👏👍 Looking forward to seeing the rest of your videos now.
Wheat or oat straw not readily available a few years now for retail sales. May be related to shortage of livestock feed nationwide. I do humanure in a wheelie bin design from G. Lawton permaculture. Also do a second cycle in pallet compost bin. I have same climate as you here n Apache county. You two inspire me!
We have a septic for our black water. But do greywater for our plants. Just don’t get enough rain for living off rainwater. But we do harvest rainwater.
I found the "infomercials" dung beetles cool! The video is awesome! I wanted to do this in AZ in 2023, but didn't know there was a a way to live on the land with an alternative for the required septic tank. Knowing more, I'll have to research again for land in a county allowing it.
Jessica, your voice is amazing. you narrating these vids it is hypnotic, i enjoy listening to u explain & educate...im surprised nobody has approached you about using you to do voice overs, or narrations. youre well spoken easy to understand and honestly i could totally put headphones on & just listen to your voice as "asmr".
You guys brought up a bunch of great points on how beneficial this system is. I’m still not sold on using it in our garden. It for non eatables I am totally down with. Great job.
Try building a DIY rotating PVC hand trommel like they use for prospecting or to separate lead from a gun range backstop, to separate out the finished compost from the non-broken down items. Then you can use the compost directly and put the non-broken down materials back into a new compost pile with additional inputs. It's easily done with some quarter inch hardware cloth and a bunch of pvc components and can even fold up for storage and transport. Several plans exist online and here on YT.
Pee pal or scientific term - Ficus religiosa is a tree you need. if you grow a couple of them around your house, for two years you have enough moisture around under the trees that you dont need to water the compost.... Plus the reduction of heat upto 5 to 8 degrees Celsius. because of the size however mind you they grow over 40 meters tall with 100 meter square area when fully grown and dont need water once they are two to three years old. and they produce a lot of leaves so you dont need to buy the straw... and can use the dried broken leaves as a substitute. also in Indian subcontinent it is known as rain maker tree as they store the moisture in the soil from the rain...and they recharge the water table...
We moved into our converted school bus this past January and use a composting toilet. We've been looking for some land so we can start our homestead and start our humanure composting. The Humanure Handbook is one of my favorite books as it opened my mind to more ways I can be good to our beautiful planet. Thanks for an awesome video. I subscribed. Also, I love the dung beetles. They're so cute ❤️
I can see getting a tiller out there, do some rows and mix compost in with natural soul, plant some fruit trees in those rows and have an orchard of sorts. 😊😊😊😊
I moved myself to the high desert of New Mexico to live in the desert to help stop desertification. To build the land and to build the soil. If we keep establishing these little oasis in the desert, soon we can turn back the time on the damage our previous generations did to the land.
couple of thoughts, as you have warmer weather would you consider making a digester for your human waste to make methane gas for cooking, also if your compost is maturing for a year why not plant squashes in the pile
Would you consider making a swales then plant fruit ress and use the compost to fertilize the trees abd the rainy season would give the trees the boost they nees to grwo and you would have fruit sooner.
Hi guys, Nicely done! I am definitely a big fan of composting toilets. I have one on my sailboat. It is absolutely amazing! Soooo many benefits and really no appreciable downsides. If I could put one in my house I would but code doesn't allow for it. As an aside, I recently went on a tour of a stage 2 advanced water processing plant in San Jose that takes treated wastewater from the standard municipal wastewater treatment plant and treats it to higher than drinking water standards. It was pretty amazing! Unfortunately they are prevented from using this water strictly due to peoples' misinformed "ick reaction." So here during an 8 year long drought with severe water restrictions in place people would rather bury their heads in the sand and die of dehydration than bother to become educated. The pilot program's biggest challenge has nothing to do with their technology- that works perfectly. Their biggest hurdle to making this commonplace is peoples' irrational fears of what they choose not to understand. Sad. Ok, rant mode off... Take care, be well and all the best from California 💛
That’s why we left California is was so difficult to get things approved. Our county up north gave us so much problems doing rainwater harvest, Strawbale homes and earthbag homes. To much engineering cost, permits, sprinklers, and now electric car stations in your garage. They just price everyone out.
For my composting toilet, I save & allow to dry all my coffee grounds &teabag "innards". I am still in the beginning of composting. Maybe a small compost pit from a single old lady...
Mosy AZ soil is futile in most places. My Great grandpa homesteaded a lot of land and ran irrigation throughout the land and had giant crops and multiple harvest because of long warm seasons. They just don't have water everywhere to farm it.
@@ourselfreliantlife I am ordering a new water drilling rig I think? I am going to think about it for a little while. My land the water is in around 200-350 feet in San Luis COLO.
Good video. You would need to heat it up good to kill the bacteria I would think, and also it would have to come from a healthy person, yes? Living in a cold climate this would be difficult and if a person takes a lot of medications maybe it would not be a good idea?
those tumble bugs are really having a " ball" lol we had an outdoor toilet for years, not much fun when it's 0 outside. so when it was that cold we kept a 5 gallon bucket in the house and lined the rim with news paper so we didn't get a permanent ring around our butt. lol
Fantastic result. Great if you have land and space to do this, but can''t see it taking off in cities, as you mentioned 😃 I envy you having dung beetles, what a fantastic creature they are, unfortunately we don't have them in Australia. It looks like you have got a great system there. Also, think of all the carbon you are sinking, directly into the ground. What are the practicalities? Camping toilet? Love your channel. We could do with more of this in Australia, we are a very Suburban nation, 98% of the population live within 50 Km of the coast. We have vast expanses of desert/bush areas where people could live if they tried some of your methods. Love your channel, keep it up!
Green Dream Project I have made a lot of compost in my days, mostly leaves, grass clippings, cow manure and kitchen scraps. Some about human waste kinda turns me off. Now if I had too, like I was stranded on Mars, I would definitely be planting potatoes! Lol
Have Down Spout of Roof go directly into spray painted black water tank.Raise tank up putting top hole directly under down spout do plumbing to next tank then repeat process by adding A tank. Are any water tanks able to be raised up as high up off ground possible
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I believe this type composting is totally useful. The problem falls on the individual taking medicinal substances that end up being excreted then put in the humanure compost and eventually in the water table somewhere downstream. There has been no mention of said Studies in most composting Humanure DIY tutorials. Many things will decompose but after the composting is at completion there needs to have studies done to ensure clean compost if your trying to achieve true organic compost for the purpose of growing food. Again you run into What is "safe" PPM/PPG/PPP-(Parts per million, Parts per gallon, Parts per pound)? and who will "say" what is considered "safe" . I'm no expert but because I've been a heart patient. I take particular medicines that I would question if I wanted that in my compost thru humanure processes. Just food for thought and plant a few seeds--
Close the poop loop 💩 I like that. I will definitely check out the hand book. This makes total sense. Thanks for doing such a good job of breaking it down. :). Did you like that pun Jim? 😂 I thought you might. But seriously this is smart especially because of our water shortage here and everywhere. I like the way you explained it Jess. Thanks.
Kudos ! Just wanta mention that in general, straw isn't recommended for this, at least at the initial compost toilet stage, u want a denser, more absorbent material such as sawdust, peat moss, & I can't remember what else, like, if coconut coir qualifies ( as that may be more readily available in AZ ?).. . I'm no expert, & don't have a lot of experience yet, just want to pass onn what I learned, and as I have VERY extensive experience w straw & manure, from my dairy farm background...I can attest that it's not the most absorbent & gets slimey, or stinky easily compared to other things. But congrats, seems to be working well in your context !
It's not very absorbent. We shred it before we use it and it actually works well for us. More sustainable and cheaper than coconut coir and peat moss, and easier for us to get than saw dust. It's working well and we've definitely tried a mix of materials.
Since I have seen the issues you have with cows, you might consider getting some of their waste to add to the pile. I believe this would speed up the process a bit. It would also help to shade the hottest sides of the bins. I would guess that evaporation is your number one enemy. Maybe a covered structure for storing the finished compost would be a good idea as well?
I understand that this is a tougher type of composting to do. I and that air circulation is necessary for eliminating anaerobic piles, but what do you think of adding some pallet boards to the upper 3/5 ths of the pallets to help retain water? Once installed the outer boards of the pallets could be removed for other uses or to plug any gaps in the upper boards.
Awesome team, just wondering if you add charcoal to your compost? I have heard good things about it being beneficial to the process and holding nutrients for plant use. Well done GDP 👏 ✔
After WWII, my parents were stationed in Japan. The farmers collected waste, solid and liquid, and spread it around the plants. It was transported to the fields in wheeled wooden tanks called "honey wagons" GI's were forbidden to consume local food due to the prevalence of hepatitis among locals at that time. Disease should not be a problem if the only material introduced is your own.
I believe that might be similar to what they did in China, and it's usually referred to as night soil. It can produce great effects on the soil, but it is dangerous because of pathogens. This method is much safer.
Great video and great message. I commend you for doing what's best for the planet and humankind. It really weighed heavy on me to put the plumbing in to the septic in the basement build. I know how much water I lose in the tank when our flush toilet is hooked up and it's a lot. Not too mention the extra cost of laying pipe for a sewage system. It's all unnecessary. We believe that composting and humanure are how it should be done. Unfortunately certain counties are not on board with this yet. In the future we hope to use the humanure method. We do use it now while doing our basement build.
It sucks you have to invest all that money in traditional septic, but you shouldn't feel bad about it. This probably isn't allowed in a lot of areas. This information needs to become more widespread. Thanks Jay!
would extra urea help in teh desert compost- they use it for several weeks to build up teh hay bale gardens to get it to start breaking down and heat up--- urine is teh best-- but they do have something in teh stores...
Do you have to turn this compost like you do regular compost bins? It seems to be doing a really good I hope you great success with it. The question everybody wants to ask which one of you had worms. Lol just kidding.. great job guys 👍
I agree. I've been living off the grid for 8 years in North Carolina, composting humanure and fertilizing our fruit trees with it. Composting humanure and collecting rainwater are probably the two biggest factors making me feel self-reliant. Gotta close that poop loop! Cheers
In the world, we can eliminate all kinds of crises with these kinds of simple solutions. The happy and peaceful life lies in simple things. The moment we disconnected nature and eco-living, the world's mental health gets worst. You guys bringing great awareness. Be Blessed!
Excellent! You're doing a wonderful service to you homestead.❤
When my daughter decided to convert a school bus to RV with a composting toilet, I was intrigued. This is amazing and interesting.
Thank you! A really great system when and where it's allowed.
#offgrid #homestead
Open minds=open opportunities. Well done. Love how y’all really do your research and share.
I love the interspersed view of your resident dung beetles!
Thank you! We always love it when it's dung beetle season. 😀
Keep the poop in the loop!
I leave my humanore compost to break down by worms for three years. By then it's pure wormcastings. Every year I get this beatiful material to use on my beds. It gives nutrients to my vegetables, wich I eat...
Great video! 💚
You two are adorable, and more importantly, educating people! - Lots of love from Ireland! :-)
Close the Poop Loop! Love it, this was such an awesome video. I now understand fully why it works. I’ve been reading a lot lately about soil health and soil building and I came across the term “green water.” That is the amount of water the soil can hold based on the amount of “interstices” (word of the day), spaces that are available for water retention. Spongy organic matter is one of the biggest contributors for this in the soil and the more organic matter you have, the more evenly the soil can absorb the water. My mind was blown. Thank you for making this video. I can’t wait to see the difference after a few years on this space you are building up. Great job! ~ Katie
Awesome! Soil health is so important. The best way to store rainwater is right in the soil where it's needed. The best way to increase water absorption in soil, organic matter.
I laughed so hard at "I can't wait to cover this whole place in my feces" 😂
Lol! I couldn't help that one.😆
😂😂😂😂
Love you channel and your thoughtful ways of life but really you being brave and saying this lifestyle is good for you
I've used tree bark anything that was on the ground to mix in with my compost a good bit of leaf cardboard boxes scrap wood sawdust depends on where I was at it always turned into church from my garden and still does I live in Oregon now
Those beetles are really impressive little engineers.
Egg shells and bones take a looooong time to break down. This year, I've started grinding up my egg shells before putting in the compost (or directly on the ground)
Absolutely. I was hoping it would have done so in this, but the eggshells will definitely have to be ground up.
@@ourselfreliantlife - Yup, and the ground shells will give some grit to the worms.
@@ourselfreliantlife I have been watching you for about a year and came back to this video again for my own research. For eggshells, I bought a cheap coffee grinder to break them down. In the fall, I add a mixture of this and ground banana peels to my garden. Over the time until I plant again, It is far more easily accepted into the soil.
@@annwithaplan9766 and aeration to the soil
@@xavery7842 - I use a little coffee grinder, too.
Loving the extra editing and education guys! Very informative :D
Thank you!!
I loved this one. Close the poop loop. Can't wait to cover this land in my own feces. Hah. Keep em coming and I loved the shots of the ding beetles.
😆Thank you! We love the dung beetles. So helpful. 😀
I screen my finished compost and whatever chunks are left go in the new compost!! Theres a corn cob or 2 that I swear have been in there 5 years!!!!! 🥗🥗🥗
Just thought of something my grandmother used to fo was throw the empty eggshells back in the coup with them. Supposed to make their next bunch of eggs stronger.
It's always good to get calcium back to the chickens.
You are an example of sustainability!
Your videos are so engaging and interesting, You're so genuine, and makes me laugh, nice work!!
So inspiring! We have been using humanure toilets for over two years here at 42 Spirts. It makes so much sense!
humbs up for the dung beetles playing football with the dung at the end! Pretty cool to harvest your first batch.
Thanks Paul! I might be a little too excited about my first batch. 😆
That was POOPTASTIC!!! Thanks for sharing.
I can't believe I've just sat and listened to someone talking Crap for 16 minutes lol.
Great videos you guys are making. Seen acres of your videos in the past never had a look as there's so much click bait on RUclips that puts me off from watching people's videos, but your simple septic system got my attention and I'm glad I had a look to see. There was a family hear in the UK around 15 years ago that went sort of off grid and had a TV series called "It's not easy being green" and it was fantastic.
Might I suggest you collect and use your pee-urine to further break down your compost and straw, as it's very high in natural nitrogen. 👏👏👍
Looking forward to seeing the rest of your videos now.
Wheat or oat straw not readily available a few years now for retail sales. May be related to shortage of livestock feed nationwide. I do humanure in a wheelie bin design from G. Lawton permaculture. Also do a second cycle in pallet compost bin. I have same climate as you here n Apache county. You two inspire me!
Thank you! I'm familiar with Geoff Lawton's bin design. 😀
This has got to be one of your best videos yet. Keep it up.
Thank you so much!!
We have a septic for our black water. But do greywater for our plants. Just don’t get enough rain for living off rainwater. But we do harvest rainwater.
I found the "infomercials" dung beetles cool! The video is awesome! I wanted to do this in AZ in 2023, but didn't know there was a a way to live on the land with an alternative for the required septic tank. Knowing more, I'll have to research again for land in a county allowing it.
Jessica, your voice is amazing. you narrating these vids it is hypnotic, i enjoy listening to u explain & educate...im surprised nobody has approached you about using you to do voice overs, or narrations. youre well spoken easy to understand and honestly i could totally put headphones on & just listen to your voice as "asmr".
Here in AZ we can only get compost to fully cure by using a true container to help retain moisture. Also helps keep temps up in the winter.
Works are good for airation. I can’t remember the name of these beetles but I remember them from a term paper I did in 9th grade.
You guys brought up a bunch of great points on how beneficial this system is. I’m still not sold on using it in our garden. It for non eatables I am totally down with. Great job.
Absolutely. There are different levels of comfort. Joe Jenkins uses it in his garden. We'll probably use it for trees.
Black gold, so exciting!
Hi Jim and Jessica , I'm all about Pooh . I really liked this one ❤️
This was a good show! 👍🏽 very informative and open my eyes 👀
Thank you!!
Try building a DIY rotating PVC hand trommel like they use for prospecting or to separate lead from a gun range backstop, to separate out the finished compost from the non-broken down items. Then you can use the compost directly and put the non-broken down materials back into a new compost pile with additional inputs. It's easily done with some quarter inch hardware cloth and a bunch of pvc components and can even fold up for storage and transport. Several plans exist online and here on YT.
We've been doing Humanure for 5 years now and it works fantastic. Please read the book The Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins first !!!
"Let's see how it looks..." I laughed out loud!
Pee pal or scientific term - Ficus religiosa is a tree you need. if you grow a couple of them around your house, for two years you have enough moisture around under the trees that you dont need to water the compost.... Plus the reduction of heat upto 5 to 8 degrees Celsius. because of the size however mind you they grow over 40 meters tall with 100 meter square area when fully grown and dont need water once they are two to three years old. and they produce a lot of leaves so you dont need to buy the straw... and can use the dried broken leaves as a substitute.
also in Indian subcontinent it is known as rain maker tree as they store the moisture in the soil from the rain...and they recharge the water table...
I appreciate Jess breaking it down for us, great background music too lol 😂🎵
We moved into our converted school bus this past January and use a composting toilet. We've been looking for some land so we can start our homestead and start our humanure composting. The Humanure Handbook is one of my favorite books as it opened my mind to more ways I can be good to our beautiful planet. Thanks for an awesome video. I subscribed. Also, I love the dung beetles. They're so cute ❤️
Thank you! The Humanure Handbook is such a great read. I recommend it even for people not intending to do it.
Thank you been doing it everywhere I've lived
I can see getting a tiller out there, do some rows and mix compost in with natural soul, plant some fruit trees in those rows and have an orchard of sorts. 😊😊😊😊
I don't know why but the closing the poop loop comment got a burst of laughter.
Excellent information! Thanks for keeping the poop in the loop ❤️
I moved myself to the high desert of New Mexico to live in the desert to help stop desertification. To build the land and to build the soil. If we keep establishing these little oasis in the desert, soon we can turn back the time on the damage our previous generations did to the land.
Loving your desert igloo! ❤️🍻👍❤️
couple of thoughts, as you have warmer weather would you consider making a digester for your human waste to make methane gas for cooking, also if your compost is maturing for a year why not plant squashes in the pile
Would you consider making a swales then plant fruit ress and use the compost to fertilize the trees abd the rainy season would give the trees the boost they nees to grwo and you would have fruit sooner.
Hi guys,
Nicely done! I am definitely a big fan of composting toilets. I have one on my sailboat. It is absolutely amazing! Soooo many benefits and really no appreciable downsides. If I could put one in my house I would but code doesn't allow for it.
As an aside, I recently went on a tour of a stage 2 advanced water processing plant in San Jose that takes treated wastewater from the standard municipal wastewater treatment plant and treats it to higher than drinking water standards. It was pretty amazing! Unfortunately they are prevented from using this water strictly due to peoples' misinformed "ick reaction." So here during an 8 year long drought with severe water restrictions in place people would rather bury their heads in the sand and die of dehydration than bother to become educated. The pilot program's biggest challenge has nothing to do with their technology- that works perfectly. Their biggest hurdle to making this commonplace is peoples' irrational fears of what they choose not to understand. Sad. Ok, rant mode off...
Take care, be well and all the best from California 💛
So sad! A definite potential to reclaim usuable water and people won't do it. It's fecal phobia.
Thanks for the info.
That’s why we left California is was so difficult to get things approved. Our county up north gave us so much problems doing rainwater harvest, Strawbale homes and earthbag homes. To much engineering cost, permits, sprinklers, and now electric car stations in your garage. They just price everyone out.
I appreciate your "rant", ewjorgy!
For my composting toilet, I save & allow to dry all my coffee grounds &teabag "innards". I am still in the beginning of composting. Maybe a small compost pit from a single old lady...
Great video, more people should be doing this, even in cities. 👍
Agreed! Less waste and more productivity. 😀
In Chicago they draw the drinking water from Lake Michigan. The treated sewage water is put back into Lake Michigan So I’m told
Very well done... thank you for sharing... loved the video
Nice coverage of this topic my friends! I like that "closing the poop loop" idea!
Thank you! Trying to go for a zero waste system. 😀
Mosy AZ soil is futile in most places. My Great grandpa homesteaded a lot of land and ran irrigation throughout the land and had giant crops and multiple harvest because of long warm seasons. They just don't have water everywhere to farm it.
Absolutely! Desert soils are some of the most nutrient dense. They just need water to unlock them.
@@ourselfreliantlife I am ordering a new water drilling rig I think? I am going to think about it for a little while. My land the water is in around 200-350 feet in San Luis COLO.
🕊🌬🖤You live my dream.... amazing people!!! 🌳
Thank you!!
Interesting video. Thanks for posting
Awesome information. I had no idea. Ty
That is going to make your food forest Flourish. Great video
Thanks y'all! I can't wait to get more stuff planted.😀
Good video. You would need to heat it up good to kill the bacteria I would think, and also it would have to come from a healthy person, yes? Living in a cold climate this would be difficult and if a person takes a lot of medications maybe it would not be a good idea?
Even medications will break down in a humanure pile.
those tumble bugs are really having a " ball" lol we had an outdoor toilet for years, not much fun when it's 0 outside. so when it was that cold we kept a 5 gallon bucket in the house and lined the rim with news paper so we didn't get a permanent ring around our butt. lol
Lol! This system would definitely be harder in the colder areas, but people still do it.
I can imagine you want nothing more to do with buckets.😆
Some of the moisture besides just the process is worm piss which is liquid gold
That beatle is happy as fuk with his new fresh used cheese burger in paradise you gave him...
Fantastic result. Great if you have land and space to do this, but can''t see it taking off in cities, as you mentioned 😃 I envy you having dung beetles, what a fantastic creature they are, unfortunately we don't have them in Australia. It looks like you have got a great system there. Also, think of all the carbon you are sinking, directly into the ground. What are the practicalities? Camping toilet? Love your channel. We could do with more of this in Australia, we are a very Suburban nation, 98% of the population live within 50 Km of the coast. We have vast expanses of desert/bush areas where people could live if they tried some of your methods. Love your channel, keep it up!
Looks great the soil looks very rich ..That Stay is that a standard size looks huge ✌️❤️☮️
Thanks Brenda! I believe it's standard. At least standard for over here.
Those dung beetles were awesome! The poop compost not so much! Lol!
Lol! They are awesome. I'm actually a bit surprised that a survivalist like you wouldn't be more for this.
Green Dream Project I have made a lot of compost in my days, mostly leaves, grass clippings, cow manure and kitchen scraps. Some about human waste kinda turns me off. Now if I had too, like I was stranded on Mars, I would definitely be planting potatoes! Lol
Wow!! Super educational as always! Very well put together! Thanks for giving me a little more Insight!
😀Thank you for watching our poo video.😁
Lol I love all the clips of the dung beetles
Those are our favorite as well.😀
Have Down Spout of Roof go directly into spray painted black water tank.Raise tank up putting top hole directly under down spout do plumbing to next tank then repeat process by adding A tank. Are any water tanks able to be raised up as high up off ground possible
Great information video! Txs! I wish I can start my own pile.
Do they not let you do that there?
No, I'm in 55+ community. Have to move put of here. But for now... I am planting as much ad I can.
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Oh my God, man.... I guffawed like 5 times... "I can't wait until i can cover this land in my own feces"
Lol! You know I had to have fun with this.😆
Hi Guys
Have you thought about adding bio char to your compost mix and for your Chickens?
I believe this type composting is totally useful. The problem falls on the individual taking medicinal substances that end up being excreted then put in the humanure compost and eventually in the water table somewhere downstream. There has been no mention of said Studies in most composting Humanure DIY tutorials. Many things will decompose but after the composting is at completion there needs to have studies done to ensure clean compost if your trying to achieve true organic compost for the purpose of growing food. Again you run into What is "safe" PPM/PPG/PPP-(Parts per million, Parts per gallon, Parts per pound)? and who will "say" what is considered "safe" . I'm no expert but because I've been a heart patient. I take particular medicines that I would question if I wanted that in my compost thru humanure processes. Just food for thought and plant a few seeds--
Close the poop loop 💩 I like that. I will definitely check out the hand book. This makes total sense. Thanks for doing such a good job of breaking it down. :). Did you like that pun Jim? 😂 I thought you might. But seriously this is smart especially because of our water shortage here and everywhere. I like the way you explained it Jess. Thanks.
I love the pun! 😀
This system works great for us and I love the low water use.
Kudos ! Just wanta mention that in general, straw isn't recommended for this, at least at the initial compost toilet stage, u want a denser, more absorbent material such as sawdust, peat moss, & I can't remember what else, like, if coconut coir qualifies ( as that may be more readily available in AZ ?).. . I'm no expert, & don't have a lot of experience yet, just want to pass onn what I learned, and as I have VERY extensive experience w straw & manure, from my dairy farm background...I can attest that it's not the most absorbent & gets slimey, or stinky easily compared to other things. But congrats, seems to be working well in your context !
It's not very absorbent. We shred it before we use it and it actually works well for us. More sustainable and cheaper than coconut coir and peat moss, and easier for us to get than saw dust.
It's working well and we've definitely tried a mix of materials.
Pretty cool! Can’t wait to see how things grow. Was that bug pushing a little ball of 💩 though?
Lol! Yes. They're dung beetles. 😀
@@ourselfreliantlife Dung beetles, yes, but,I never heard that until adulthood, we called them "tumble bugs"!
Since I have seen the issues you have with cows, you might consider getting some of their waste to add to the pile. I believe this would speed up the process a bit. It would also help to shade the hottest sides of the bins. I would guess that evaporation is your number one enemy. Maybe a covered structure for storing the finished compost would be a good idea as well?
All the bins are covered. When it's finished, it will end up being spread out in our food forest.
Your best video by far! I think you gained professor status!
Thank you!!
wonderful! 😇😀
Those weeds next to the human manure is loving the poop juice. I could be wrong.
I understand that this is a tougher type of composting to do. I and that air circulation is necessary for eliminating anaerobic piles, but what do you think of adding some pallet boards to the upper 3/5 ths of the pallets to help retain water? Once installed the outer boards of the pallets could be removed for other uses or to plug any gaps in the upper boards.
Great video guys, loved it alot. You took it up a notch! Who knew that talking sh*t could be a positive thing :)
Lol! Thanks Gaz!
Keep the good stuff coming thanks
Thank you Theodore!
Awesome team, just wondering if you add charcoal to your compost? I have heard good things about it being beneficial to the process and holding nutrients for plant use. Well done GDP 👏 ✔
We have not added charcoal to the compost, but I also hear it's great for the soil.
Adorable 😍 Akita
Thank you!!
Thanks for the video guys watching from southeast georgia
Thank you Theresa!
After WWII, my parents were stationed in Japan. The farmers collected waste, solid and liquid, and spread it around the plants. It was transported to the fields in wheeled wooden tanks called "honey wagons" GI's were forbidden to consume local food due to the prevalence of hepatitis among locals at that time. Disease should not be a problem if the only material introduced is your own.
I believe that might be similar to what they did in China, and it's usually referred to as night soil. It can produce great effects on the soil, but it is dangerous because of pathogens. This method is much safer.
Yes they called them “ honey dippers”.
Your 👍 nail made me watch this video. Great video
Nice talk about shit or brown gold! A great video about living in harmony with nature.
Thanks Michael! Somone needs to talk about this.😀
Great video and great message. I commend you for doing what's best for the planet and humankind. It really weighed heavy on me to put the plumbing in to the septic in the basement build. I know how much water I lose in the tank when our flush toilet is hooked up and it's a lot. Not too mention the extra cost of laying pipe for a sewage system. It's all unnecessary. We believe that composting and humanure are how it should be done. Unfortunately certain counties are not on board with this yet. In the future we hope to use the humanure method. We do use it now while doing our basement build.
It sucks you have to invest all that money in traditional septic, but you shouldn't feel bad about it. This probably isn't allowed in a lot of areas. This information needs to become more widespread.
Thanks Jay!
If you take the worms and add to your last pile they will help to break down the waste faster. Good luck
Thanks Deborah! That's what we were thinking. 😀
would extra urea help in teh desert compost- they use it for several weeks to build up teh hay bale gardens to get it to start breaking down and heat up--- urine is teh best-- but they do have something in teh stores...
We don't separate urine. The extra moisture and nitrogen helps immensely.
Very cool!
Very cool. You guys rock.
Thank you!!
if you want your compost to do it faster with less work get red wigglers what would take a year would be a lot faster and better soil
Actually there were a lot of red wigglers in this compost.😀
Do you have to turn this compost like you do regular compost bins?
It seems to be doing a really good I hope you great success with it.
The question everybody wants to ask which one of you had worms. Lol just kidding.. great job guys 👍
Lol! Luckily, we don't have to turn this. If it's layered right with straw, it will aerate the compost.
What do you think of something like this versus the homebiogas? Would you ever consider using a homebiogas tiolet?
Git-R-Done! Stay safe and have a great weekend!
Thanks CB! Have a great weekend as well.