I got to say that's not only humanure for me Since I started doing it, my physical, mental and spiritual health inproved a lot. I recovered from a very hard and difficult to cure disease. Because of this, I could start doing in my life and invent many new things that I could not before due to poor health and poor general condition. Beacause of this, I was able to start working a lot physically and intellectually. I also feel better spritually- happier and freer to do good things and generally as me and I can also give this happiness to others. The very sad thing is that people do not want to see that the changes that have taken place are the results of working towards humanure.
Love what you’re doing and saying. I’m in the middle of changing my entire life right now. Just acquired some land in the states and am quitting the rat race. Going back to the basics. Voting with my dollar cuz I know that works. I’m tired of living in a world full of lies. Thanks for sharing and making an authentic difference. Much love
When I say that God with His grace can heal through nature and act through infinite number of things, even believers in God often knock on the head and tell me that I am mentally ill or something. And I've just been in bad condition but it keeps getting all the way better. Certainly there are many graces of God in action for matters which are missing in the world and about which people think that they are not working but work wonderfully. I hope that it will gradually change and people will be able to take advantage of the good that is contained in this matter and also be able to discover many other wonders so far hidden for humanity or old and forgotten or considered not working but works great. Cordial greetings and blessing for You everyone ❤
Another great video guys! Thanks. We'll get a similar system set up here sometime soon I hope. Just have to find the space for the compost bins that will be needed. The resulting humanure compost will be such a wonderful resource to add to our system.
Hi you leave your life same way I used to many years ego with my parents on a small french island call reunion in the Indian ocean... But since we've moved to France, we went to the modern world .as I say . But I really should have done it in a way that I could have carrying one what I knew Best.. but I am trying to get back at it. your way of seeing life is very very Similar to my parents .thank you for sharing .as a kid I didn't like taking the buket of wewe out early morning.
hahahah lovely ending of the video!!! can't believe 32 kg pumpkin!!! thanks for sharing your journey, is a key element to educate ourselves than other life is possible!!! you inspired us!!! greetings to all the fam!!!!
We have a compost loo set up here in Scotland. Keeping excess moisture out is the biggest challenge for us. Best crop of tomatoes I ever grew was in humanure.
Hey. Thank you for yet another great video. Your knowledge, experience and verve-to-share is so valued! I'm in the latter development stage of designing a small home in Tasmania. Per 'The Book', this process necessarily describes dealing with (and paying for) engineers, quantity surveyors, soil scientists, geologists, a myriad of other specialised professionals and of course, my local Council. This crew (insert collective noun for all the above) are great... they know their stuff and are deeply engaged in the project - at a hefty price. The collective noun sing from the same book and that book is called Code. So my question is, 'how have you legally-or-otherwised negotiated the collective noun and its Code, in order to physically and biologically do what you do and lovingly share? I know... it's great question! Love. x
Yes, a bloody good question Glen! The simple answer is to decode. There are so many laws to break in order to live ecologically and decouple from industrial wages, pollution, economy and ideology. The slightly longer answer is we started by getting all the codes ticked off by the relevant authorities (we didn't know where we were heading 14 years ago so we just got the cheapest hook ups to all the services that we thought we needed back then). Then began the slow 10-year process of decoding from hypertechnocivility. Even though we don't send our shit off to some far-away industrial processing plant, and we haven't for several years, we still have to pay the sewerage rates - no escaping that in the burbs. But the gas is long decommissioned, and maybe it will be for all Victorians soon in a brave move from The Andrews government. Hope this helps.
That is such a cool video. I've been to your place twice but was hesitant to delve too deeply into your poo, this vid has answered all my shitty questions. Thanks! :)
I’ve been loving our journey into this practice and learning. I’ll defiantly get the book. Any tips on how to keep my comfrey ? Sadly the Roos love it as much as we do. Also we don’t have my shade on our property can I make a bay in the sun? Dr. Sam Bailey has co authored some fabulous books on Terrain theory if yr interested she has a channel on here
Great info, and so beautifully and thoughtfully presented. The Hyper, overscheduled, ADHD (haha) person in me, would love a shorter rendition too, with just the steps, as i'm already sold on the poop bucket revolution and other benefits! Thanks for spreading the good news!
Excellent video. So the worms that were in your very first bay that you made ever , would you have spread them on the first layer on the ground or when it built up a bit? And once its been going for a while , I should just be sure to leave plenty at the bottom of the bay visible or do you add more occasionally? Thank you xxoo
Hi Patrick, great video thank you! I was just wondering, can I use eucalyptus leaves & chips & saw dust? Currently only using straw, but like you said, I’m needing to buy that in & would prefer to rent a chipper & use the fallen eucalyptus around the property. Thanks
Hi Kate, thanks for your comment. Yes, if you are going to break down the eucalyptus biomass on the land you caretake, hire a shredder rather than a chipper. Wood chips take a long time to break down, they can also cake together and reduce moisture and air flows, thus slowing the process even more. Shredded material will break down faster and add better texture for habitat in your compost. If you are growing, or can grow, comfrey in the garden in a big volume this will aid with the nutrient transformation process in your system and potentially 'cool' down the acidity of the eucalyptus matter. Other plant fibres layered in the compost will help too. Oak leaves have great alkalising properties so being able to forage for these leaves will serve your compost well too. Hope this helps.
Ok, great! Thanks for the clarity Patrick, really appreciate it. So much eucalyptus around, wonderful to know how to use it wisely. We have a couple of large oak trees here too & we usually put them on our large general open compost but will be sure to save some for the humanure composting now. Hoping you, Meg and Woody are really well. Forever inspired by you all.
Amazing content, this is my absolute favorite channel! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. May I ask if dog poo can be integrated into this system too? What do you do with your dog's waste?
Yes you could, or at least we would be happy to with our dog bc we feed Zero a non-industrial diet - roadkill, goat and rabbit bones, scraps from the kitchen table, etc. However, Zero is a very private poo-er and he discretely deposits his waste so we don't bc of the time it would take to hunt them down... hope this helps!
Is there any smell? and why do you put the urine in a different place? does that get composted? also hay might be hard to get and sawdust too, what could we use in a place like Bangladesh a forth world country. ? Thank you. Mama T
Hey Mama T, thanks for your questions. No there's no smell in our system, the carbon materials absorb the smell. You can use urine in the same humanure system, we don't but you can. Instead we collect ours in buckets, water it down (50/50) and walk this free liquid nitrogen to specific fruit trees in the garden to direct feed them. Citrus love loads of urine. You can, however, overfeed trees with nitrogen, so if you have a number of trees to distribute it to that's best, otherwise just let it all go into the one humanure compost system, though you'll need to add more carbon (to reduce smell and absorb the urine). Any carbon material will do - torn up newspaper and cardboard, collected dry fallen leaves (we bike around the neighbourhood collecting them), chopped up tree branches, etc. Hope this is helpful.
in white paint/chalk above the middle bay you have a dedication written. you could write the poo compost lasagna layer recipe above one or both of the other bays to remind volunteers of the components.
Thank you for another great vid. I’ve been thinking about doing this for a while. Am I correct in presuming red wriggler compost worms would do the same work? How do you combat rats ?
The amount of urine in the "input" bucket was very small - maybe 20% of the volume? Then about 5 buckets of dry material? That's quite a large ratio of C inputs to urine (25:1). Do I have that right? If so, the "gold" at the end is mostly just composted straw. comfrey, and sawdust.
Hello Greg, thanks for your question. Yes, the carbon to nitrogen ratio is about 25:1 (which is a typical compost ratio). Our composts have little urine inputs. The nitrogen speeds the conversion of the carbon material into humus. 20:1 is fine too. Hope this helps clarify.
@@artistasfamily 25:1 is the ratio of C inputs to urine that I think I see in the video. Since urine is something like 95% water, 2.5% salt, and 2.5% N, your ratio of C:N is really much much greater than that. My point is that you could probably get by with a lot fewer off-farm inputs.
I've used a composting toilet for several years. I line my bucket with tall, draw-string plastic kitchen bags, alleviating the need for many buckets. I have only two. One is in use while the other airs out in direct sunlight. Never a foul smell or any insects. I recycle the plastic using a tracking concentrating solar retort, which turns waste plastic into fuel for my steam boiler.
@3bouldersurban653 Ya. I recycle at home, using Mr. Fusion -- a tracking solar retort. It turns plastic into fuel (which I use to fire my steam boiler). I have steam-engine-driven generators that I designed and built myself.
I have a random questions. Me and my family use water to wash ourselves after both n1 and n2 because we are muslim and we also prefer not using toilet paper. So im wondering if this would work if we add the moisture factor. I have been watching composting toilet for a while and wondering what method would be best for us or for a comunal muslim-friendly compost toilet. Thanks for the video.
Here in the U.S. we have honey bucket portable toilets I put on high rubber gloves and dig out the humanure. And place in buckets and use sawdust to absorb the moisture so its not to wet. I go everywhere around the city of Buckley with the buckets in the bike trailer looking for humanure in those honey buckets haul it home to the compost bins.
I wouldn't have thought I would enjoy watching someone literally shovel shit for half an hour would be so entertaining. Sadly I'm unable to compost humanure on my property, I'd love to give it a crack. Especially awesome to hear your political view point. The intersection of permaculture and revolution give me hope for the future. I would love to hear you and David Holmgren talk the world to rights over a few bottles from the neo-peasant brewery.
For everyone interested in Humanure, I highly recommend that you first read the book The Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins and follow it to the letter. He wrote the "Bible" of Humanure.
We disagree. Jenkins book is excellent, but it is far better to separate urine (as much as possible) from your humanure system. Therefore, it is not advised to follow Jenkins's work to the letter if you want the best results. This is what our video shows, if you watch it in full.
@@artistasfamily I respectfully disagree and that's okay. Thanks for making the video. I hope more people learn to recycle their excrement if they see the benefits. I've been doing it for 5 years with great success. Now people have a choice, urine in or out. :)
Thanks very much for this. Interesting to see the progress/differences in your system when compared with a reading of Jenkins. I was in early trials at my place, but received overwhelming backlash so did not proceed with this. Sad, but my part in that was poorly played politics and basically subterfuge/guerilla poo work, which I apologised for.
Ugh. Really should be mixing in time urine and making sure that the compost gets to temperature 🌡 to kill pathogens. Also bad to have it next to a building so cool.
I admire you commitment and passion but the essential process is not that complicated is it? You just leave a pile of poo covered in leaves for a year and it turns into rich beautiful nutritious plant food. Everyone can do it easily and excellently with the help of microbes and mother nature?
I agree that it's important to utilize this valuable resource and appreciate your spirit. Sorry to give you a thumbs down, but there are too many inaccuracies in this vid - especially stating that it's "perfectly safe" after six months (using the method described). That many be true in many cases, but certainly not 100% of the time.
I love your words about pooing in a bucket as a revolutionary act.
Bravo pour tout ce que vous faites pour votre autonomie et pour la planète. Sylvie du Québec,
I got to say that's not only humanure for me Since I started doing it, my physical, mental and spiritual health inproved a lot. I recovered from a very hard and difficult to cure disease. Because of this, I could start doing in my life and invent many new things that I could not before due to poor health and poor general condition. Beacause of this, I was able to start working a lot physically and intellectually. I also feel better spritually- happier and freer to do good things and generally as me and I can also give this happiness to others. The very sad thing is that people do not want to see that the changes that have taken place are the results of working towards humanure.
Love what you’re doing and saying. I’m in the middle of changing my entire life right now. Just acquired some land in the states and am quitting the rat race. Going back to the basics. Voting with my dollar cuz I know that works. I’m tired of living in a world full of lies. Thanks for sharing and making an authentic difference. Much love
Good morning from sunny England. I watch the new videos with interest. I really like the interview with Happen Films
When I say that God with His grace can heal through nature and act through infinite number of things, even believers in God often knock on the head and tell me that I am mentally ill or something. And I've just been in bad condition but it keeps getting all the way better. Certainly there are many graces of God in action for matters which are missing in the world and about which people think that they are not working but work wonderfully. I hope that it will gradually change and people will be able to take advantage of the good that is contained in this matter and also be able to discover many other wonders so far hidden for humanity or old and forgotten or considered not working but works great.
Cordial greetings and blessing for You everyone ❤
What a brilliant video 💚
Another great video guys! Thanks. We'll get a similar system set up here sometime soon I hope. Just have to find the space for the compost bins that will be needed. The resulting humanure compost will be such a wonderful resource to add to our system.
Hi you leave your life same way I used to many years ego with my parents on a small french island call reunion in the Indian ocean... But since we've moved to France, we went to the modern world .as I say . But I really should have done it in a way that I could have carrying one what I knew Best.. but I am trying to get back at it. your way of seeing life is very very
Similar to my parents .thank you for sharing .as a kid I didn't like taking the buket of wewe out early morning.
Thanks as always y'all. Love from the Pacific Northwest - Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam, Tsleil-waututh unceded territories
Love U! So grateful for sharing Your knowledge and all videos 🙏 We'll build the same humanure compost in our garden. Best wishes from Poland 💚
Lovely to see your process! Thank you!
hahahah lovely ending of the video!!! can't believe 32 kg pumpkin!!! thanks for sharing your journey, is a key element to educate ourselves than other life is possible!!! you inspired us!!! greetings to all the fam!!!!
I love the way your videos share it all with viewers. So real and honest!
I love how well explained your videos are. My teenager is watching it with me as an example of how I'd like a new composting bay built for the garden.
We're big fans of helpful teenagers!
@@artistasfamily we are too! And he really enjoys building things that have value.
Close the poop loop….. made me smile!
I am finally in a position to make the changes you describe. Cheers for leading the revolution my friend.
We have a compost loo set up here in Scotland. Keeping excess moisture out is the biggest challenge for us. Best crop of tomatoes I ever grew was in humanure.
Awesome helpful video once again. Much gratitude 🙏
Hey.
Thank you for yet another great video.
Your knowledge, experience and verve-to-share is so valued!
I'm in the latter development stage of designing a small home in Tasmania.
Per 'The Book', this process necessarily describes dealing with (and paying for) engineers, quantity surveyors, soil scientists, geologists, a myriad of other specialised professionals and of course, my local Council. This crew (insert collective noun for all the above) are great... they know their stuff and are deeply engaged in the project - at a hefty price.
The collective noun sing from the same book and that book is called Code.
So my question is, 'how have you legally-or-otherwised negotiated the collective noun and its Code, in order to physically and biologically do what you do and lovingly share?
I know... it's great question!
Love. x
Yes, a bloody good question Glen! The simple answer is to decode. There are so many laws to break in order to live ecologically and decouple from industrial wages, pollution, economy and ideology. The slightly longer answer is we started by getting all the codes ticked off by the relevant authorities (we didn't know where we were heading 14 years ago so we just got the cheapest hook ups to all the services that we thought we needed back then). Then began the slow 10-year process of decoding from hypertechnocivility. Even though we don't send our shit off to some far-away industrial processing plant, and we haven't for several years, we still have to pay the sewerage rates - no escaping that in the burbs. But the gas is long decommissioned, and maybe it will be for all Victorians soon in a brave move from The Andrews government. Hope this helps.
That is such a cool video. I've been to your place twice but was hesitant to delve too deeply into your poo, this vid has answered all my shitty questions. Thanks! :)
Amazing …love it!
Great vid thank you for explaining your system so clearly. May I ask What method do you use to separate urine “at origin” ? Cheers 🙏
Just a bucket. Because we squat it is easy to use a small bucket to collect the urine.
I’ve been loving our journey into this practice and learning. I’ll defiantly get the book. Any tips on how to keep my comfrey ? Sadly the Roos love it as much as we do. Also we don’t have my shade on our property can I make a bay in the sun?
Dr. Sam Bailey has co authored some fabulous books on Terrain theory if yr interested she has a channel on here
Great info, and so beautifully and thoughtfully presented. The Hyper, overscheduled, ADHD (haha) person in me, would love a shorter rendition too, with just the steps, as i'm already sold on the poop bucket revolution and other benefits! Thanks for spreading the good news!
Excellent video. So the worms that were in your very first bay that you made ever , would you have spread them on the first layer on the ground or when it built up a bit? And once its been going for a while , I should just be sure to leave plenty at the bottom of the bay visible or do you add more occasionally? Thank you xxoo
You can add tiger worms at the early stages of the compost and they will increase their number dramatically as you 'feed' the compost.
Fantastic… ❤
Hi Patrick, great video thank you! I was just wondering, can I use eucalyptus leaves & chips & saw dust? Currently only using straw, but like you said, I’m needing to buy that in & would prefer to rent a chipper & use the fallen eucalyptus around the property. Thanks
Hi Kate, thanks for your comment. Yes, if you are going to break down the eucalyptus biomass on the land you caretake, hire a shredder rather than a chipper. Wood chips take a long time to break down, they can also cake together and reduce moisture and air flows, thus slowing the process even more. Shredded material will break down faster and add better texture for habitat in your compost. If you are growing, or can grow, comfrey in the garden in a big volume this will aid with the nutrient transformation process in your system and potentially 'cool' down the acidity of the eucalyptus matter. Other plant fibres layered in the compost will help too. Oak leaves have great alkalising properties so being able to forage for these leaves will serve your compost well too. Hope this helps.
Ok, great! Thanks for the clarity Patrick, really appreciate it. So much eucalyptus around, wonderful to know how to use it wisely. We have a couple of large oak trees here too & we usually put them on our large general open compost but will be sure to save some for the humanure composting now. Hoping you, Meg and Woody are really well. Forever inspired by you all.
I desire to learn from you truly.
Amazing content, this is my absolute favorite channel! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. May I ask if dog poo can be integrated into this system too? What do you do with your dog's waste?
Yes you could, or at least we would be happy to with our dog bc we feed Zero a non-industrial diet - roadkill, goat and rabbit bones, scraps from the kitchen table, etc. However, Zero is a very private poo-er and he discretely deposits his waste so we don't bc of the time it would take to hunt them down... hope this helps!
And thank you for your kind words.
@@artistasfamily It does help! Thank you 🌱
Is there any smell? and why do you put the urine in a different place? does that get composted? also hay might be hard to get and sawdust too, what could we use in a place like Bangladesh a forth world country. ? Thank you. Mama T
Hey Mama T, thanks for your questions. No there's no smell in our system, the carbon materials absorb the smell. You can use urine in the same humanure system, we don't but you can. Instead we collect ours in buckets, water it down (50/50) and walk this free liquid nitrogen to specific fruit trees in the garden to direct feed them. Citrus love loads of urine. You can, however, overfeed trees with nitrogen, so if you have a number of trees to distribute it to that's best, otherwise just let it all go into the one humanure compost system, though you'll need to add more carbon (to reduce smell and absorb the urine). Any carbon material will do - torn up newspaper and cardboard, collected dry fallen leaves (we bike around the neighbourhood collecting them), chopped up tree branches, etc. Hope this is helpful.
How would this work in a very wet climate? would you need to cover the composts?
Yes, you would need to cover the compost in a very wet climate, as it would get too soggy, and wouldn't have enough aeration.
If you are going in a bucket, how do you separate the urine?
We use another small bucket at the front.
in white paint/chalk above the middle bay you have a dedication written. you could write the poo compost lasagna layer recipe above one or both of the other bays to remind volunteers of the components.
That's true! Thank you.
Thank you for another great vid. I’ve been thinking about doing this for a while. Am I correct in presuming red wriggler compost worms would do the same work? How do you combat rats ?
Do you cover the compost when there are heavy rains?
Yes we do, good question. Thanks!
The amount of urine in the "input" bucket was very small - maybe 20% of the volume? Then about 5 buckets of dry material? That's quite a large ratio of C inputs to urine (25:1). Do I have that right? If so, the "gold" at the end is mostly just composted straw. comfrey, and sawdust.
Hello Greg, thanks for your question. Yes, the carbon to nitrogen ratio is about 25:1 (which is a typical compost ratio). Our composts have little urine inputs. The nitrogen speeds the conversion of the carbon material into humus. 20:1 is fine too. Hope this helps clarify.
@@artistasfamily 25:1 is the ratio of C inputs to urine that I think I see in the video. Since urine is something like 95% water, 2.5% salt, and 2.5% N, your ratio of C:N is really much much greater than that. My point is that you could probably get by with a lot fewer off-farm inputs.
I've used a composting toilet for several years. I line my bucket with tall, draw-string plastic kitchen bags, alleviating the need for many buckets. I have only two. One is in use while the other airs out in direct sunlight. Never a foul smell or any insects. I recycle the plastic using a tracking concentrating solar retort, which turns waste plastic into fuel for my steam boiler.
So you empty the poop out of the plastic bags then recycle the plastic bags??
@3bouldersurban653
Ya. I recycle at home, using Mr. Fusion -- a tracking solar retort. It turns plastic into fuel (which I use to fire my steam boiler). I have steam-engine-driven generators that I designed and built myself.
I have a random questions. Me and my family use water to wash ourselves after both n1 and n2 because we are muslim and we also prefer not using toilet paper. So im wondering if this would work if we add the moisture factor. I have been watching composting toilet for a while and wondering what method would be best for us or for a comunal muslim-friendly compost toilet.
Thanks for the video.
How perfect was Woody needing a poo during this 🥰
Here in the U.S. we have honey bucket portable toilets I put on high rubber gloves and dig out the humanure. And place in buckets and use sawdust to absorb the moisture so its not to wet. I go everywhere around the city of Buckley with the buckets in the bike trailer looking for humanure in those honey buckets haul it home to the compost bins.
You're my hero
Great video! Subscribed. How long does it take to fill one of your compost bins before you are starting a new one?
do you use this on your food garden or just on flowers and trees?
This is the mother of one and all Revolution: Humanure!
I wouldn't have thought I would enjoy watching someone literally shovel shit for half an hour would be so entertaining. Sadly I'm unable to compost humanure on my property, I'd love to give it a crack. Especially awesome to hear your political view point. The intersection of permaculture and revolution give me hope for the future. I would love to hear you and David Holmgren talk the world to rights over a few bottles from the neo-peasant brewery.
👏👏👏👏
Hermoso 💚
If one is vegan do we still have to heat process...
For everyone interested in Humanure, I highly recommend that you first read the book The Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins and follow it to the letter. He wrote the "Bible" of Humanure.
We disagree. Jenkins book is excellent, but it is far better to separate urine (as much as possible) from your humanure system. Therefore, it is not advised to follow Jenkins's work to the letter if you want the best results. This is what our video shows, if you watch it in full.
@@artistasfamily I respectfully disagree and that's okay. Thanks for making the video. I hope more people learn to recycle their excrement if they see the benefits. I've been doing it for 5 years with great success. Now people have a choice, urine in or out. :)
Thanks very much for this. Interesting to see the progress/differences in your system when compared with a reading of Jenkins. I was in early trials at my place, but received overwhelming backlash so did not proceed with this. Sad, but my part in that was poorly played politics and basically subterfuge/guerilla poo work, which I apologised for.
Love your honesty, Ande. No doubt another opportunity will arise.
Without truth, my revolutionary acts are destined to fail. Writ small 😹
100% Everyday Magic!
Ugh. Really should be mixing in time urine and making sure that the compost gets to temperature 🌡 to kill pathogens. Also bad to have it next to a building so cool.
I admire you commitment and passion but the essential process is not that complicated is it? You just leave a pile of poo covered in leaves for a year and it turns into rich beautiful nutritious plant food. Everyone can do it easily and excellently with the help of microbes and mother nature?
I agree that it's important to utilize this valuable resource and appreciate your spirit. Sorry to give you a thumbs down, but there are too many inaccuracies in this vid - especially stating that it's "perfectly safe" after six months (using the method described). That many be true in many cases, but certainly not 100% of the time.