You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: Compost Thermometer On The Cheap
Howdy! You've been visited by @nateonsteemit on behalf of Homesteaders Co-op, the free, international marketplace for sustainable goods on steem!
I appreciated your post and featured it in today's second edition of our plankton support curation initative!
Love the idea! I'd really like to see your humanure system too! No shame in talking about such things, it's inspiring. I'm hesitant because of the obvious cultural phobias, but a system using a bucket automatically looks and sounds much less intimidating than fancy methods.
It is a very simple system that is based on the Joe Jenkins “Lovable Loo “. I’ve been using it for well over a decade now. I think I still have a copy of Joe’s book in digital form that I could probably share if anyone is interested.
I purchased a “privy kit (http://www.ecovita.net/privy501.html), built a wooden box and added a little 12v computer fan that runs on solar which causes it to be odorless while in use . That’s pretty much it.
Being the only one to use it, (my wife is still fecophobic), it takes me two weeks to fill it. I use a disc of newspaper and a lot of sawdust after each use. Sometimes I add powdered biochar to the sawdust. But that makes it a bit dusty. Alright for the man cave where I have mine, but probably too messy for in-house use.