Ok so we heard about the idea of humanure composting, know why we would want to do it and understand the basic process behind it. I want to build a thermophilic composting toilet system! Alright! Now how

"Enough of all the poo problems, we want to hear solutions!" I hear you. It's high time we talked about how to properly dispose of our human waste. Or rather: How to transform it into something

Surely, that title MUST be a joke!? Bad clickbait, right? Nope - I mean it! It's the not-so-grim realization most people have never had. It is a fast-forwarding to the future us, after we have realized

This post is about how we built and set up a compost toilet on the land.

Besides being a hugely internationally popular children's book (it's like top 50 in the world on Amazon), it's also a fact of life and a normal bodily function... so why all the shame and taboos? During

Dave is constructing a new porch entrance to my front door at Atmanna, my home in Bulgaria. Emilie is helping. The porch will also contain a section for a humanure type squat compost toilet.

I balked at the price of a good compost thermometer but have always been curious as to how hot my pile was getting. So, I got to thinking. Which often gets me in trouble. But this time, I think I may have

When I first started my blog, I wrote a post about closing the nutrient cycle.  From that post I shared our philosophy regarding how we utilize manure to grow nutritious food without the use of chemicals

This is how we process our humanure. But first we want to introduce you to some definitions and descriptions of what humanure is. This way you don’t go into this blog confused or with the wrong ideas 🙂

We are back to making videos again after a short little break. Here's an update of how things are going in our little 12-acre world! Here's the link to our first acorn article here on SteemIt (second one

Here is a link to my website fixedbydoc.com where I have written a detailed article about how we process our humanure. Our process is both State and Federal certified safe for food garden use. This article

In my previous issues of Taking Care of Business I discussed how human feces can be composted aerobically in dry composting toilets, and also how flush-toilets can be made sustainable. Today I want to

I read a great article about Terra Preta Sanitation Solutions and I thought I would share my ideas on how an entire industry could be created from nutrients we give away for free.  Maybe you don't

The undeniable advantages of a flush toilet  In my last post on humanure composting I described how human feces can be composted, how this can be done in a simple, cheap, and efficient way, and why it

What can we do with our human wastes? Probably one of the most important questions addressed by Permaculture is not the one about where things come from (food from our garden, water from the rain, energy

During my walk yesterday I stopped to use the restroom that was located at a public dock near the Penny Bridge. I wasn’t thinking about it so I didn’t take pictures. I worked for a day camp 20 years and