and not too expensive in $ terms, to enrich our gardens. Surely commercial manure from commercial animals comes with all the commercial additives used to raise them…. So what’s wrong with our own shit? If we’re healthy in the first place, nothing. After all, if there was a pathological essence in our own shit, very few of us would be here now, since most of our ancestors didn’t have indoor plumbing as we know and use it today.
Here’s what I do:
This elegant, comfy Victorian commode chair sits in an old armoire. It’s frankly the most comfortable toilet I’ve ever used: tall enough to suit me, sanitary, discreet (when the door’s closed) and ODOR FREE, as long as the deposits are covered with clean material- I’ve used straw, sawdust, or cocoa hulls…. And no one, however fecophobic, has been able to find it by smell alone! When the bucket underneath is full, the whole shebang goes into the compost, is covered with
straw, and rots merrily away in short thermophilic order. It gets HOT.Here' a picture of some finished humanure compost: fragrant- smells like fresh, fine soil- because that's what it is!
