Think you need a 3000 dollar system to compost your poo? No. All you need is bucket with a toilet seat lid, and this free downloadable book.
A link to the site: http://www.jenkinspublishing.com/humanure.html
And here is a link directly to the PDF.
Thanks to Richard for finding the links.
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When I walk on the main road, there is a happy man who stops in the middle of the paved road and talks to me. Last time I talked to him was last year. I was in the laundromat for about 6 hours washing and drying my down bag and I told him about the hike that I was washing my bag for.
Today he stopped me on the road and asked if I made it. I said, “Yeah, and it was my best hike ever. I stayed happy and strong the whole way.” He said “I would love to do something like that but I’m working on my earthen house.”
He showed me some pictures of it and he told me how he is going even further below ground to pipe 50 degree air into his house year round. So it will be warm in winter and cool in the summer. He did a lot of stone work. He said he built it all with just a wheel barrow and hand tools.
When I bought this land it was so I could build a small cob cottage on it. A cob cottage is a dwelling sculpted out of clay, sand, and straw. So far, I have been more interested in hiking then building when spring rolls around, though. Someday.
I told him that I would be really interested in seeing his earthen dwelling and he told me to give him a call.
The snow is receding and my woodpile appears again. It hard to tell how much wood you have if it’s covered in snow. Now I see I have plenty of wood. I had my doubts. Look, there is my ax. I haven’t seen that in awhile.