An urban composting toilet & humanure for the garden


A “greywater guerrila” (a plumbing hacker) explains how she and her housemates compost their waste with a composting toilet. It takes just one year before they can use their own poop on their garden as “humanure”. Original story here: http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/a-composting-toilet-and-humanure-for-garden/

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Posted on January 26th, 2011 by admin and filed under kitchen composter | 14 Comments »

Composting Tips for your garden


Learn how to make compost for your garden. Stick around for the bloopers.

Duration : 0:7:19

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Posted on January 25th, 2011 by admin and filed under kitchen composter | 5 Comments »

Basic Gardening Tips : When Is the Compost Pile Finished?


Learn how to start and maintain a garden in this free gardening video.

Expert: Tia Pinney
Bio: Tia Pinney is a Teacher Naturalist and Adult Program Coordinator at Mass Audubons Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso

Duration : 0:1:43

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Posted on January 24th, 2011 by admin and filed under kitchen composter | 6 Comments »

How to Build a Compost Pile For Dummies

Kitchen scraps and yard waste make great garden fertilizer after they decompose into organic matter. Building a compost pile is as easy as layering the right materials, watering, and stirring. This video shows you how to cook up your own compost pile.

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Posted on January 22nd, 2011 by admin and filed under kitchen composter | 15 Comments »

The Naked Garden: SoilFoodWeb Compost Extraction

This is the first episode of The Naked Garden for 2011. In the episode we explain Compost Extraction (not compost tea; that is another show and a different concept), the food used to feed soil micro-biology and how to make and test the equipment for spreading the micro-biology without destroying it. This show fits into 30 minute time slot. There are no sponsors shown; this means this show can be viewed in anytime zone and area.

Duration : 0:29:53

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Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin and filed under kitchen composter | 2 Comments »

Compost : Compost Bins for Gardens

Use compost bins for gardens, learn about a plastic tote bin and using grass or leaf clippings to compost in this free gardening video.

Expert: Yolanda Vanveen
Contact: www.vanveenbulbs.com
Bio: Yolanda Vanveen is sustainable gardener who lives in Kalama, Wash.
Filmmaker: Daron Stetner

Duration : 0:1:21

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Posted on January 20th, 2011 by admin and filed under kitchen composter | 2 Comments »

After rain and a few months does cat poo in your garden compost down into mud/grass & safe for kids to play on?

If not how can i make the lawn safe for my kids to play on ?? No cats in my garden anymore so im just trying to get rid of all their mess but its all soft and slushy (sorry) randomly in my garden so even if you pick it up its still left loads on the grass and mud underneath? Im worried about this summer with my kids in the garden playing on grass??

I would get rid of what you can of it. Scoop it, bag it, and landfill it, then let the rain wash the residue down through the grass into the soil. If there aren’t any large pieces left by spring it shouldn’t be a problem for your kids to play on the grass.

You’re right to be concerned about cat poop. Cat feces often contains Toxoplasma gondii parasites, which if ingested produce Toxoplasmosis in immune-suppressed individuals. The parasite migrates into nerve cells and produces muscle weakness, and it can also migrate to the retina of the eye and damage vision. In pregnant women it can produce neural defects in fetuses, which is why pregnant women should never handle litter box duties. Cat scat is worse than dog and pig feces, which have their own share of problems and shared human diseases.

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Posted on January 17th, 2011 by admin and filed under garden compost | 7 Comments »

Urban composting toilet: poo from loo to garden in 1 year

Our sewage system is archaic: every week, New York City sends 800 Olympic sized swimming pools of sewage water into nearby waterways. It’s also expensive and energy-consuming to treat our waste: Britain’s sewage treatment uses a quarter of the energy of the country’s largest coal-fired power plant.

There are alternatives. Oakland, California resident Laura Allen uses a urine-diverting toilet. The urine is used as fertilizer, and the feces is stored in plastic drums to compost. After a year, all pathogens are destroyed and the drum is filled with “humanure” which Allen uses on her garden.

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Posted on January 6th, 2011 by admin and filed under kitchen composter | 15 Comments »
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