Our Humanure and Composting Toilet System

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  • čas přidán 21. 07. 2019
  • How does humanure work? Is it really safe and effective? There are many extensive published studies on properly caring for a humanure system on your farm or homestead.
    Today I will walk through the homestead humanure system and how it works. For great humanure information:
    humanurehandbook.com/
    #CompostingHumanure #offgrid #humanure
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Komentáře • 155

  • @ronaldbequeath2307
    @ronaldbequeath2307 Před 5 lety +43

    I definately agree with your system and use a humanure system myself. I cannot agree with the fact of shipping shxt down a tube to a plant that adds chlorine to it and dumps it into the river for the folks down river to drink. If we want to change the system we must petition our lawmakers to change the laws, starting with the locals and working up the line. Glad to see such a wonderful system.

    • @svetlanikolova7673
      @svetlanikolova7673 Před 3 lety +4

      Ronald, i dont have enough water where I live so a water toilet is out of the question.But drinking water need to remain that- drinking water.
      My humanure goes for my walnut and hazelnut trees. A win win

  • @rough-hewnhomestead5737
    @rough-hewnhomestead5737 Před 5 lety +23

    Thank you for sharing this info! People need to know how to do this--even if they don't use this method all of the time....a time may come when we need to know this.

    • @xbjrrtc
      @xbjrrtc Před 4 lety +1

      I believe 100% that it will.

  • @GammaCharlotte
    @GammaCharlotte Před 5 lety +38

    From what I learned about composting from studying this issue and the system you're using, you do NOT need to worry about pathogens. As the combination of waste, wood chips, and hay decompose they produce a very high heat that kills any possible pathogens. In this culture, in our heads, we will always have an Ewww! factor when dealing with human waste. Just try to be objective and get past it. We use chicken poo, rabbit poo and steer manure all the time. Human poo is ok too. Joel Salatin also composts his waste from processing chickens just like you would kitchen scraps. It's all biodegradable. Just don't throw plastic or metal in there. Excellent video Zac!

  • @FranekCyganek25
    @FranekCyganek25 Před 2 lety +4

    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 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.

  • @LegacyFarmandHomestead
    @LegacyFarmandHomestead Před 5 lety +16

    I lived off grid for 2 years. We used horse bedding pellets for humanure. Worked great.

    • @Anamericanhomestead
      @Anamericanhomestead  Před 5 lety +5

      NIce!

    • @yellowbird5959
      @yellowbird5959 Před 4 lety +2

      How to adjust for Alaska

    • @moringaking816
      @moringaking816 Před 3 lety +2

      barbara dyer move from Alaska we aren’t made to live in climate like that. We are tropical creatures. Best to move to Central America such as Belize. We are sick currently living in USA due to not good soil or climate for our human optimum needs.
      We thrive in tropical oasis and can thrive on fresh organic heirloom jungle wildcrafted produce fruits veggies and nuts found in mineral rich soil and purest water is down found in Sarteneja Belize and other areas with largest coral reefs and such.
      I am blessed to be thriving down there 👇 for the rest of my reality. It’s the best quality oxygen as well.
      I could never dream of being able to grow my micro gardens and heirloom seeded plants 🌱 off the grid and solar powered in the jungle and we can grow 365 days out of the year at 76-89 degrees F daily no matter what. Being in the rain forest never lacking fresh life rain water.
      It’s the best and virtually no taxes. Propert taxes are like 25$ bucks usd per year. Much cheaper live like a king or queen in royalty off the land with almost no carbon footprint.
      Live a true righteous life this way. As our western world decadence is curses our family individually and collectively across the board. We lost our way and to me this is the only sin that exists.
      Just because we have been educated and taught wrong doesn’t justify and rationalize why we should continue to do the wrong things that destroy our eco sphere and environmental t
      We destroy our lands and animals which therefore hex the remains of our children life and their offspring pass down this accursed behavior.
      There is absolutely no excuse to continue this mindless self indulgence that even I have been guilty of living for my entire life. But now I learned my lesson and been ready to the higher life.
      Welcome yourself invite to
      HEAVEN
      Jungle mansion heaven is available for all living sols who wish to thrive at the most optimum levels of rich quality life. Rather than a materialistic junk we don’t need mediocrity.
      It gets old and promotes anxiety and a depressed life of misery. So glad to stop the promotion of suffering and pain and so now I spiritually won’t be inflicted with that repercussion backlash.
      Kindest regards. To better living choices and if our family’s matter to us. We should do all we can to flee the soulless matrix and thrive with blessings of serenity peace and bliss.
      All life forms deserve the best including you and your family. Why settle. Get in a boat or ride a bike if you must.
      Throughout time family’s would get their camel or horse or caravans and weary travel would always go travel following their heart to the oasis where fresh harvest spring water and mineral rich soil is found.
      America’s oxygen levels are highly toxic and depleted or due to pollution from our industry’s living and our water is so bad as well as our soil. This all reflects the poor quality of our produce which is why we have had to move to mass production of gmo crops which do nothing good for our body.
      We are in a devastating and drastic time where if we don’t get off our butts and do the right thing then it will effect us. You will be cursed with a mild or severe dis ease ailment such as cancer or diabetes if you continue to just pick up all your foods at fast food or wal marts ext.
      When just back in 70’s almost all family’s grew their own gardens. The way it is suppose to Be
      Of course times have gotten harder economically now we are enslaved to two or even three full time jobs 9-5 or even 12 hour jobs and have no life nor time to do such things and are exhausted beyond belief.
      I have a movement called #StrandedJUNGLE with attempts to help people get out of the matrix and unleash the chains of debt and all the other traps of the matrix which keeps one down for the rest of the life. It’s pretty bad and trust me it is possible to change the stars.
      So many are inflicted with this as a victim to society s peer pressure into schooling collect and other careers that will never get one anywhere and it’s selling your very own living sol for materialistic junk you will never be happy with or have enough.
      There is no greater therapy or reward than the produce of your labor of a garden and heart of year round it is like a present each and every day. Composting manure and thrive off the land as it is the only perfect system that works.
      Going back to Mother Earth Gaia the creator maker. We can go back to eden only man has told us we can’t. They wrote a book about it. But no all loving unconditional god would ever tell you to get out. We can go back. Don’t listen to the lies of man. But thrive by following your heart which is where the home is.
      I am never wrong with the things I say above. As we have been brainwashed socially engineered and enslaved to conditioning of grooming that we don’t want or can’t get or don’t deserve this life.
      It’s the best life now. Anyone teaching you need more money or should chase it is a lying trap sending you down a wrong path of disillusionment and it will not and cannot ever make you happiest.
      To each their own . But this is a message sent with Devine love in it and this is why this matrix world will never ever teach this message. This matrix is designed to be only deception of the illusion of duality which is not how nature works.
      Singularity is how nature works. Meaning there is absolutely no such thing as good or bad or evil and holy etc. all works out perfectly in nature of heaven. Have you ever given it enough of a chance to find out?
      To the seeker I hope you consider it. Don’t think consciously too much either. With man made archons AI soulless beings - which use their words titles and labels of language to mislead you.
      Follow the visualize of your heart center. It will always be the intuition that’s guides you the right way. The brain will lead you back to materialize junk such as money cars and stuff you don’t need. Listen to the heart first.
      Allow the mind to balance to that target and watch what happens.
      -Kindest regards
      ~E.G.Plott~

    • @isaacfulton7731
      @isaacfulton7731 Před 3 lety +6

      @@moringaking816 jesus. A bit much. 😂.

    • @no_one_211
      @no_one_211 Před 2 lety +2

      @@moringaking816 Sorry, I live in a sub tropical place and I can assure you I don't do well here but do very well up North and am working my way back there.
      There is no one climate fits all.

  • @evegrowing7749
    @evegrowing7749 Před 4 lety +12

    AWESOME video on a very important subject. Your system looks “AMAZING” ready to handle a hotel, or something? Your mind set should be taught early on to all of us! Keep up the incredible work!!

    • @evegrowing7749
      @evegrowing7749 Před 4 lety +2

      Would love to know who would ever give a thumbs down to this video? You’re clearly conscious of pathogens, and it’s soo much better than going in our water supply!

  • @lis819
    @lis819 Před 3 lety +3

    Grow comfrey...it grows fast and provides an endless supply for speeding up the compost of humanure...

  • @FranekCyganek25
    @FranekCyganek25 Před 2 lety +1

    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 telk 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 ❤

  • @kawaiisenshi2401
    @kawaiisenshi2401 Před 4 lety +5

    This is one of my favorite build systems ive seen online

  • @sarahbenedict5482
    @sarahbenedict5482 Před 3 lety +3

    Never thought I’d “like” a video about humanure lol but here I am. 👍 I’ve got to show this to my husband because he’s not convinced by my CZcams expertise but will definitely want to hear the points being made. Maybe hearing it from someone who also started out against the idea will help warm him to the thought.
    🙏✌️❤️

  • @Bprincipled
    @Bprincipled Před 5 lety +3

    Tim has amazing skills. What an impressive operation.

  • @ErinaWild
    @ErinaWild Před 4 lety +2

    Thank you so much for the video, we have recently start with our compost wc and looking for ideas for the composting area i found your video. I like so much how organized, clean and visualy beautiful you have made the system, very inspiring. Regards from Spain!

  • @trishapomeroy9251
    @trishapomeroy9251 Před 3 lety +1

    Very well done video on this subject! We have a sawdust toilet that we've used on occasion. I love your bin system. It's clearly well thought out and well built.

  • @colleenmarie6265
    @colleenmarie6265 Před 2 lety +2

    I don’t see flies all over the area, that’s GREAT! I always wondered why can’t human waste be used on landscaping.TY❣️🙏🏼

  • @CDewayne7
    @CDewayne7 Před 4 lety +13

    In grid down, imagine the water saved from use to flush waste.

    • @gc0009
      @gc0009 Před 3 lety

      in the vermifilter system, the water from the flush returns to nature and without pathogens, read about it s2

  • @YSLRD
    @YSLRD Před 5 měsíci

    Great system.
    I moved to a house where an older lady had dumped her raw waste in a an overgrown spot. When I called the health dept, I was told that if it had been more than 6 months, my kids could safely play out there.

  • @butterbreath9398
    @butterbreath9398 Před 2 měsíci

    Excellent and informative video. Very nice set-up. Thanks for sharing.

  • @jred1838
    @jred1838 Před 5 lety +3

    Thank you for sharing!! Love this, very informative!

  • @brianb6603
    @brianb6603 Před 5 lety +4

    Excellent as usual!!!

  • @SugarCreekOffGrid
    @SugarCreekOffGrid Před 5 lety +1

    Great video and very nice looking system setup there!

  • @mateagleeye
    @mateagleeye Před 3 lety +1

    Awesome video! For my home system I’ve always gone out of my way to find the food grade buckets for use in the loo as the Home Depot or regular ones may leech stuff into it.

  • @WhatDadIsUpTo
    @WhatDadIsUpTo Před 2 měsíci

    I live alone in Texas and I line my 5-gallon bucket with a tall, draw-string kitchen bag.
    When it's full, I remove the bag and put in another, putting the filled bag in the trash can at the gas station OR emptying the contents into one of several plastic 32-gallon trash bins with solid snap-on lids, five or six 3/8" drain holes and eight 1 1/2" holes around the top side just under the lid and allow stuff to compost for one year, then spread whatever remains on my pasture, where ruminate animals live.
    I recycle the plastic bags into fuel for my steam engine boiler using a concentrating tracking solar retort (which also makes me lump charcoal when not cooking waste plastics).
    PS - I don't ever have to wash out any stinky buckets by using trash bag liners.

  • @mcanultymichelle
    @mcanultymichelle Před 5 lety +2

    Great thanks for this video. now I know what I was doing wrong. I've been using composting toilets for a couple of years but I always seem to get tomatoes growing from the humanor. I was using leaves but hey is the way to go, it must make it hotter.

  • @poodledaddles1091
    @poodledaddles1091 Před 5 lety +4

    thanks, for the info!

  • @rmartinie
    @rmartinie Před rokem

    Great video!! Well done 👍🏻 Thanks SO MUCH for sharing this content.

  • @rickderwitsch
    @rickderwitsch Před 2 lety

    Thanks , great overview.

  • @theresadelaney3255
    @theresadelaney3255 Před 5 lety +1

    I just adore you. Like this channel too.

  • @midsouthhomestead9180
    @midsouthhomestead9180 Před 4 lety

    Thanks for your tips!

  • @paulapjclark8928
    @paulapjclark8928 Před 3 lety

    Thank you 😊

  • @conrad13579
    @conrad13579 Před 3 lety

    Great Tips. Thanks alot.

  • @manny-perez
    @manny-perez Před 5 lety +1

    Great information, it looks like a great setup. I'm not sure about human manure.

  • @chickengoatfish
    @chickengoatfish Před 3 lety

    thank you !

  • @bradfordfootman7495
    @bradfordfootman7495 Před 4 lety +4

    You talk about using hay as a nitrogen source. But humanure already naturally has an amount of nitrogen in it. Granted, every little bit helps. I've been using the same system you use for the last 3 years. I use pine shavings and lawn clippings rather then dried hay. Seems to work fairly well. Just throwing it out there

    • @TerreHauteRemoteGoat
      @TerreHauteRemoteGoat Před rokem

      I noticed that too. I think he just misspoke and meant to say "carbon"... unless he's using alfalfa hay. And you are right, pee & poo already have plenty of N, they lack C.

  • @andrewlittlefield3425
    @andrewlittlefield3425 Před 5 lety +1

    Very informative 😁

  • @deralias1711
    @deralias1711 Před 10 měsíci

    Thanks, I scrolled through all the comments and did not see the question. Your compost bins are not under a roof. I remember some info that it actually is problematic if there is lot of rain. I thought that Urin had enough nitrogen, but perhaps not. It might be the reason why my humanure compost is not really getting hot. I will add some greens tomorrow…

  • @brightonshores
    @brightonshores Před rokem

    I've heard its best to let it sit 2yrs b4 use so all medications anyone is taking dissipate, I know ppl who wait the 2yrs and use on their garden & have never had any issues, they wait the 2yrs then at the end of harvest put it on garden[so its actually longer than 2yrs], & plow in spring b4 planting[they use pine woodchips & have an exhaust fan under their toilet bench venting any odors to the outside.] they also have a urinal to separate urine from #2 & have it piped to a container with woodchips and lawn trimmings, covered and fenced in, same as compost bins, similar to yours]

  • @GeorgeVanAken
    @GeorgeVanAken Před 2 lety

    I guess the hickory is why I don’t see any flies?
    Or perhaps this was shot anytime other than spring?
    I’d give this a try. I enjoy your content immensely.
    Bravo. 👏

  • @michaelfoster8530
    @michaelfoster8530 Před rokem

    That my friend is an awesome system!!! It helps save on water usage. Why waste your well water flushing a toilet.

  • @jameswitte5167
    @jameswitte5167 Před 5 lety +2

    It is said that you can safely use it in the garden ... Just not with any root crops like carrots or potatoes ... Great for fruit trees ...

  • @PickleRick65
    @PickleRick65 Před rokem +1

    It would be better if the bins were in full sunlight, the shade isn't helping you. Great vid though👍👌💪💪

  • @theskyehiker
    @theskyehiker Před rokem

    Even if you have to have a septic system, you don’t have to use it. I lived in a trailer park in town and I used this system in my home. All you need is a way to compost the humanure in your yard and you are good to go.

  • @robertallen6086
    @robertallen6086 Před 3 lety +1

    Thanks for contributing your personal data and research you've obviously done and gave a very clear walkthrough starting with the gate and perimeter plus genuine reasons for the existence due to in your case chickens being inclined to destroy the objective design and function of variables granted, "worms" ; which help in breaking down the most compost efficiently. The simple layout of the bins, sawdust for the access center not only as an ingredient for the composing but to prevent the growth of weeds "brilliant " ,if I to discover that as a effective solution . And last but definitely not the least the outhouse shot w rainwater collection tank system ... for guests??? Seriously, man do I wish I was to be one to actually be using a constitutional pecsuision of genius with others in mind as a decision for the architectural fusion of technology I would have believed was given from aliens advanced farther then us . God bless you and your thinking individuals you mentioned as to the part of time for each bins needed length for completion.

  • @HoneyHollowHomestead
    @HoneyHollowHomestead Před 5 lety +3

    I have a hard time, mentally, throwing hay that I would be feeding my livestock on to compost. I would think that fallen leaves would also serve the same purpose.
    Now, I have been thinking about digging an outhouse since I am in the midst of a growing Amish community and that is what they use. Just thinking maintenance wise it may be easier as we age.

    • @Anamericanhomestead
      @Anamericanhomestead  Před 5 lety +4

      Hay out here is CHEAP and we always have year old hay sitting around.

  • @ryanholzhouser7739
    @ryanholzhouser7739 Před rokem

    Thank you for making this video. Any idea on Straw vs hay ?

  • @jaimeruff4219
    @jaimeruff4219 Před 4 lety

    Gonna have to do more research on this as Im wanting to do LESS IS BETTER. Trying not to be totally off grid in the shed to home conversion here on our farm, as the kids would hate me and theirs friends wouldnt come over as much. Hhhmmm lol HOWEVER you mentioned prob not a good idea for the garden that you eat, but we eat fruit and blackberries. Please explain why this us ok, but jot the garden? Again more research on my end. Thanks, love your channel

  • @billyraymond9416
    @billyraymond9416 Před měsícem

    I use your. model, But I use composting trash bags just so I dont have to clean buckets i would for sure blow chunks if I had to look at it, just saying but the bags break down and work great.

  • @farmtofashion
    @farmtofashion Před 9 měsíci +1

    Hi - Do you have a tutorial for building the wooden bins?

  • @lindarobinson195
    @lindarobinson195 Před 3 měsíci

    Very interesting. Many yrs ago city family vacation in a house near us. Used out house would put wood ash and or Lyme to keep clean. Any opinion yours truly Evans w Robinson ret sgt

  • @brianstephens8809
    @brianstephens8809 Před 3 lety

    I’m just wondering if you were to put the buckets of waste and sawdust mixture into a 55 gallon compost bin ( along with a little hay with every bucket ) on rollers and it was shaken up every time you added a bucket instead of just adding hay to the very top level,,, would it make the incubation time less than a year? I’m in no hurry for it though! I hope this question to you makes sense.

  • @berniesat
    @berniesat Před 2 lety +1

    As it cooks down, do you have any problems with the wood bins rotting away?

  • @weetreebonsai
    @weetreebonsai Před 5 lety +1

    tweeted

  • @bootlegger8818
    @bootlegger8818 Před 2 lety

    I'm actually moving to an island off the coast of Haiti in the near future. Looking for a good way to make safe compost to grow food. We won't have sawdust or hay. We should be able to use local vegetation after it is cut and dried. Thoughts?

  • @georgemcnally4473
    @georgemcnally4473 Před rokem +1

    Excellent video, though like others have commented below, I would point out that as long as sufficiently high temperatures have been reached the pathogens will have been thoroughly eliminated. It's a little odd how we get so precious about humanure yet have no problem routinely using horse, cow, chicken, etc. manures.

    • @petercohen3966
      @petercohen3966 Před rokem +1

      Agreed. 12 months is serious overkill. And so is the high temperature inside those composters.
      Also it's a little odd how everyone uses generic phrases like "pathogens" when referring to humanure. Like everyone is simply repeating the same claim. Clearly there's little actual data or we'd see more specific quantitive references to giardia, shigella, entamoeba histolytica, e. Coli, etc. I haven't been able to find actual research papers with this data.
      Farmers in China have been putting raw faeces in their rices paddies for hundreds of years. Same in Thailand and Vietnam. In Korea they call it sweet manure.
      I wonder if it's possible some vested interests are pushing some myths.

    • @georgemcnally4473
      @georgemcnally4473 Před rokem

      @@petercohen3966 I believe in North Korea the state even claims ownership of the kid's poop from the schools. But, then again, they seem to claim ownership of everything else, so why not!?

    • @georgemcnally4473
      @georgemcnally4473 Před rokem +1

      @@petercohen3966 In regard to the high temperatures Peter, I feel like I am doing everything to method but mostly get a temperature around 30C. On occasions, I have got up to 45C for a few hours, but that is about it.

  • @karynmcevoy
    @karynmcevoy Před rokem

    Awesome content. I'm just finding this in a search now and want to do it. However I drink a gallon of water a day. So that feels like I'll have more buckets than I can store in no time. I get that I can separate and dilute - but that's 5 - 10 gallons of diluted soil water per day to contend with. Is there anything I'm not understanding? Or is this assessment accurate?

  • @DJFlores01
    @DJFlores01 Před měsícem

    After watching your video and reading the comments, I have to add that everyone is correct by stating that the combination of carbon and nitrogen makes the pile hot, the info I did not see is that "to kill pathogens and bacteria, the temperature has to be over 175f (80c) AND maintain that temp for at least four hours".
    By the way, also a question, do you start the one year count when the last bucket load is covered and the bin is full, starting to use the next bin?? Or??

  • @chriscich
    @chriscich Před rokem

    What about wood ash? So when I am done with a campfire and it's been out for a couple of days and its cold, would I be able to dump that into the compost bin?

  • @markmccune5871
    @markmccune5871 Před 3 lety

    Question: Does my composting bins have to be as yours? Can I put 4 posts and then wrap it with chicken wire?

  • @SD-co9xe
    @SD-co9xe Před 10 měsíci

    Can you use arborist wood chips?

  • @lisameechan
    @lisameechan Před rokem

    How many bins for putting the compost in do you need per person?

  • @carolross2123
    @carolross2123 Před 3 lety

    Do you have links to court cases or scientific research articles I can print out for my local health department. We were off-grid using the humanure system, and then the govt. got onto us and pressured us to dig a septic system. we are facing that again.

  • @sourcecreator2222
    @sourcecreator2222 Před 2 lety +2

    What kind of wood did you use for your compost bins, pressure-treated or not treated? Thanks.

    • @zzsdadYY
      @zzsdadYY Před 2 lety +1

      You do not want pressure treated or MB treated pallet wood touching your compost. They contain chemicals unfit for human consumption. Either use heat treated pallet material or non-treated cull lumber for another inexpensive option.

    • @sourcecreator2222
      @sourcecreator2222 Před 2 lety

      @@zzsdadYY thanks for the response

  • @davidschmidt270
    @davidschmidt270 Před 3 lety

    Thanks...and yeah your right about the stigmata but hey let's face it...the way things are going in the country... politics aside....the way things are going most of us my not have a choice!!!

  • @cherylotinyhousecellist
    @cherylotinyhousecellist Před 3 lety +3

    hello, I'm wondering if you have ever added a vermicompost system to either your bucket or the compost pile? I have been vermicomposting for many years and just building my composting toilet now. I'm planning to add red wigglers. Any experience? thanks!

    • @itsno1duh
      @itsno1duh Před rokem

      you may know by now how it goes... lol I built my humanre compost bin close enough to the garden that when I went to break open the pile to add a few buckets worth there were gobs of red wigglers... At first I tried to get rid of them but then I asked myself WHY? been doing this since 2008 with their help. I do allow an extra year as I do not routinely measure to the temps needed to kill pathogens and "the handbook" says an extra year in temporate climes achieves safety

  • @RemediesFarm
    @RemediesFarm Před 2 měsíci

    How do prescription medicines affect the results?

  • @davidpatrick1813
    @davidpatrick1813 Před 25 dny

    I would put a "pee trap" type of thing off the roof drain into the tank. Make it have a bottom that can be cleaned..

  • @fl3082
    @fl3082 Před 3 lety

    Cover with "hay"? Not "straw"? Is that for biologic or thermophilic reasons? Or is hay just cheaper/ more accessible to you?

  • @chrisbarney7367
    @chrisbarney7367 Před 4 lety

    Would mesquite chips work in place of hickory chips?

  • @MsLeanne68
    @MsLeanne68 Před 3 lety +1

    Thankyou for the vid! Great info. Soooo on the subject of toilet paper... I’ve been looking for a sustainable product that you can grow and don’t need to purchase. Any ideas??

  • @daminica7199
    @daminica7199 Před 5 lety

    I've tried it always had some smell in the house put in my own leaching feald

  • @montage1555
    @montage1555 Před 28 dny

    The only untreated non-chemical sawdust I could find cost a fortune. Any suggestions?

  • @frontierwoodsman4373
    @frontierwoodsman4373 Před 2 lety +2

    Do these bins still work in winter?? I'm in Alaska, so I'm curious if this is viable here. Thanks!

    • @sourcecreator2222
      @sourcecreator2222 Před 2 lety

      I suppose so, you would just need enough bins to last you through the winter because you couldn't empty them when the piles are frozen. Or maybe you empty them immediately versus storing the bins outside, and the contents would just freeze in the pile outside, awaiting the thawing to finally heat up and undergo the compost reaction. Consider waiting more time before using, like 2 years.

  • @dumbbunnie123
    @dumbbunnie123 Před 5 lety +2

    I’m really interested in this system , but one question I have has held me back, ....I have very serious health problems that require a lot of medication , I mean a LOT , so my question is, would it be advisable to use the compost produced by people like me ? Would it get hot enough to destroy the residue of medication ,and would it be safe to use on any food producing plants?

    • @ronaldbequeath2307
      @ronaldbequeath2307 Před 5 lety +1

      SaRaH Kruch you may want to investigate the break down times of your medicines and the breakdown times for the residues, my meds and residues break down in under a year so after a year I mix yard waste and animal manure to it and when that is composted then I use it where ever i want.

    • @dumbbunnie123
      @dumbbunnie123 Před 5 lety

      Ronald Bequeath ...Thank you for the help! I will look into it!

  • @terryleef8308
    @terryleef8308 Před 3 lety

    Question. You'd use it on berry trees? What if you eat the berries? Blueberries? Should we NOT eat the berries?

  • @Jess-xi1jb
    @Jess-xi1jb Před 3 lety

    are you able to use this composting method in the winter with snow? I live in Ontario Canada and it can reach -40 Celsius and I'm wondering if this compost will be able to hold up in our climate.

    • @jendubay3782
      @jendubay3782 Před 3 lety

      It should. Might take you a bit more time, but humanure is extremely hot

  • @nautblue4284
    @nautblue4284 Před 3 lety

    Straw or Hay? There’s a pretty decent difference between the two.

  • @zackfair3054
    @zackfair3054 Před 3 lety

    Can I build the outhouse to where we use the bathroom directly into the compost that will sit underneath? Instead of into a bucket. Or would there be too much smell or some other less desirable factor?

    • @fourdayhomestead2839
      @fourdayhomestead2839 Před 3 lety +2

      A 4" vent pipe going up pass the roof line helps with any smells. I have a tiny solar fan in the vent pipe. (also have something attached to prevent rain from getting down the pipe)

  • @josephinegallegos6035
    @josephinegallegos6035 Před 5 lety

    We have an septic tank already in the property do you think we should continue using the septic tanks is already there or it might be a good idea to use a compost toilet I would like to know your feedback thank you for sharing your video

    • @abouwer01
      @abouwer01 Před 5 lety +1

      Good question man. If you do end up using your septic tank look into turning it into a biofuel digester

    • @jameswitte5167
      @jameswitte5167 Před 5 lety

      Also ... If you have a fiberglass septic tank you can put a transparent top on it turning it into an underground greenhouse ... With a 1/2 inch vent pipe you make a poo dehydrator ... A family of 4 generates less then 2 inches of solid waste per year ... So a 5 foot tall tank should last 30 years before getting full ...

  • @plurmingo1
    @plurmingo1 Před 4 lety

    You touch on the odor, and what woods absorb. So my question: is there any odor that comes off ? , and how much. How far is this from you house ? Do dump in one bin for a year then leave it for a yr ?

    • @cpoul
      @cpoul Před 4 lety +1

      Once a bin is full you leave it for a year. In the house use saw dust not wood chips for cover material. Cover after you go with saw dust and there won't be any smell. Outside cover with enough hay and there won't be any smell. If he's getting smell he's not using cover material correctly or using wrong cover material. Inside the house the finer the cover material the better.

    • @plurmingo1
      @plurmingo1 Před 4 lety

      I got what Zack was saying. What I was asking is : out side bins, do they stink or how much odor comes from them ? Like if it rains does it smell like driving threw cow country or on really hot days does it smell like a 💩 farm ? And I asked : how far are his 💩 bins from his house ? And : do they dump in 1 bin for a whole yr or until that bin is full ?

    • @cpoul
      @cpoul Před 4 lety +1

      @@plurmingo1 I can only tell you about odor. If there is odor inside or out enough cover material is not being used. This is if the bin is set up correctly to begin with. You use the bin until it is full, then go on to another bin. Google joe jenkins humanure czcams.com/video/1BWc-RjuWbs/video.html

    • @kennethlang7787
      @kennethlang7787 Před 4 lety

      i am assuming here, but lets cover all aspects. yes, it stinks when you poo. have the saw dust available at restroom. it covers and stops odor. Pee is separate issue, do your research. We have it worked out. we separate the # 1 and #2 at our house but it take a bit more ingenuity. you can find pee separators on line. each family is different.

  • @connorx630
    @connorx630 Před rokem

    Humanure like cattle decapitation?!?!? LEL rock on bro!!!!! rock the flip on bro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @MHayes7777
    @MHayes7777 Před 5 lety +2

    How does Jaimies radiation treatments effect it? Does the radiation remain in her system and out the bathroom process? If its in her waste does it decompose?

    • @Anamericanhomestead
      @Anamericanhomestead  Před 5 lety +4

      I think you're confusing radiation with chemo. Radiation does not stay in your body in the way she gets it. It's just a beam that passes straight through. CHEMO on the other hand would totally contaminate humanure

    • @MHayes7777
      @MHayes7777 Před 5 lety +1

      I did not know that about radiation. Thanks for the education Zac :)

  • @Binner86
    @Binner86 Před 5 lety +4

    Nutrient Run Off. How to you handle excess Phosphorus/Nitrogen seeping from the bins into surrounding areas? has it been tested to see if the boxes can contain it? Do you plant around boxes so that excess nutrient run off is absorbed and not washing into groundwater?

    • @wild-radio7373
      @wild-radio7373 Před 5 lety

      I heard elderberry is a great plant to grow near...

    • @cpoul
      @cpoul Před 4 lety +2

      A bed of 18" of hay should be put in the bottom of the bin when started for a biological sponge.

  • @binahsfira
    @binahsfira Před 5 lety

    Okay, sorry for the stupid question. I have never used a composting toilet but have been learning about this for the past few months. Can you use toilet paper and if so do you need certain types?

    • @LT-et5rr
      @LT-et5rr Před 4 lety +1

      SH ForHisGlory1 yes, toilet paper can go right in and so can feminine hygiene products. Except after a year of composting you'll have to pick out the sticky plastic part on the back of a sanitary pad. No diapers though!

    • @binahsfira
      @binahsfira Před 4 lety

      @@LT-et5rr Thanks!

  • @jred1838
    @jred1838 Před 5 lety

    Do you empty the rain barrels out for the winter?

  • @xbjrrtc
    @xbjrrtc Před 4 lety

    Are there good substitutes for sawdust that I could get from my own property?

    • @lolazal1
      @lolazal1 Před 2 lety

      Dried law, leaves, tree trimmings and dry soil.

  • @downbntout
    @downbntout Před 5 lety +2

    Streaks on bucket walls! Any solution?

  • @bluedirtgreen
    @bluedirtgreen Před 5 lety +3

    Are you allowed to conceal carry on your own property?

    • @eliyahteague2329
      @eliyahteague2329 Před 5 lety +1

      You can carry however you like on your own property, open or concealed. Castle doctrine applies.

    • @bluedirtgreen
      @bluedirtgreen Před 5 lety

      @@eliyahteague2329 That's what I thought.

  • @sourcecreator2222
    @sourcecreator2222 Před 4 lety +1

    It's not waste, bro! Great video, but just fix your words my man! Toilet materials! Haha.

  • @peterpiper5300
    @peterpiper5300 Před 10 měsíci

    if cow and chicken manure are used to fertilize vegetables, why cant composted humanure be used?

  • @howlerbushcraft342
    @howlerbushcraft342 Před rokem

    Wait up, so do you put your toilet paper In those bins as well?

  • @jonothandoeser
    @jonothandoeser Před 2 lety

    After a year outdoors in a pile, there is no bacteria that is still going to around. Even without the heat of composting. Bacteria need a certain environment to survive. And I've never heard o ANY pathogen that can survive outside of its environment for 12 months. It's perfectly safe to use humanure on vegetable gardens.

  • @eliyahteague2329
    @eliyahteague2329 Před 5 lety +1

    Human waste was unclean in the Torah though wasn't it? They were to take and dispose of it outside the camp and were unclean if they came into contact with it. Good chance I'm missing something here.

    • @Anamericanhomestead
      @Anamericanhomestead  Před 5 lety +4

      Yes, The verse in question (Deut 23:12-13). The context is when Israel would go to war (verse 9). This is how they would handle their latrines. But the method really is the same. You cover the waste which is exactly what is done in our humanure. Its emptied and covered and it breaks down into dirt over the course of a year. At this point, its no longer waste.

  • @paf2bfree632
    @paf2bfree632 Před rokem

    TP

  • @karensavageau4622
    @karensavageau4622 Před 4 lety +1

    Is it ok to put toilet paper into a composting toilet?

  • @jimf1964
    @jimf1964 Před 4 lety +2

    I'm very interested in doing this in a couple years. The money savings are huge, plus it's far more environmental. You didn't cover in the video about how stinky and gross it is when emptying the bucket, and do you have to rotate the compost or really just pile it on, and leave it when full.
    Oh, also you spend a year, but how mild is your winter? I'd imagine that living up north I'd maybe want to wait two years?
    Thanks for covering this shitty topic. 🙂

  • @moringaking816
    @moringaking816 Před 3 lety

    barbara dyer move from Alaska we aren’t made to live in climate like that. We are tropical creatures. Best to move to Central America such as Belize. We are sick currently living in USA due to not good soil or climate for our human optimum needs.
    We thrive in tropical oasis and can thrive on fresh organic heirloom jungle wildcrafted produce fruits veggies and nuts found in mineral rich soil and purest water is down found in Sarteneja Belize and other areas with largest coral reefs and such.
    I am blessed to be thriving down there 👇 for the rest of my reality. It’s the best quality oxygen as well.
    I could never dream of being able to grow my micro gardens and heirloom seeded plants 🌱 off the grid and solar powered in the jungle and we can grow 365 days out of the year at 76-89 degrees F daily no matter what. Being in the rain forest never lacking fresh life rain water.
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    Live a true righteous life this way. As our western world decadence is curses our family individually and collectively across the board. We lost our way and to me this is the only sin that exists.
    Just because we have been educated and taught wrong doesn’t justify and rationalize why we should continue to do the wrong things that destroy our eco sphere and environmental t
    We destroy our lands and animals which therefore hex the remains of our children life and their offspring pass down this accursed behavior.
    There is absolutely no excuse to continue this mindless self indulgence that even I have been guilty of living for my entire life. But now I learned my lesson and been ready to the higher life.
    Welcome yourself invite to
    HEAVEN
    Jungle mansion heaven is available for all living sols who wish to thrive at the most optimum levels of rich quality life. Rather than a materialistic junk we don’t need mediocrity.
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    Kindest regards. To better living choices and if our family’s matter to us. We should do all we can to flee the soulless matrix and thrive with blessings of serenity peace and bliss.
    All life forms deserve the best including you and your family. Why settle. Get in a boat or ride a bike if you must.
    Throughout time family’s would get their camel or horse or caravans and weary travel would always go travel following their heart to the oasis where fresh harvest spring water and mineral rich soil is found.
    America’s oxygen levels are highly toxic and depleted or due to pollution from our industry’s living and our water is so bad as well as our soil. This all reflects the poor quality of our produce which is why we have had to move to mass production of gmo crops which do nothing good for our body.
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    When just back in 70’s almost all family’s grew their own gardens. The way it is suppose to Be
    Of course times have gotten harder economically now we are enslaved to two or even three full time jobs 9-5 or even 12 hour jobs and have no life nor time to do such things and are exhausted beyond belief.
    I have a movement called #StrandedJUNGLE with attempts to help people get out of the matrix and unleash the chains of debt and all the other traps of the matrix which keeps one down for the rest of the life. It’s pretty bad and trust me it is possible to change the stars.
    So many are inflicted with this as a victim to society s peer pressure into schooling collect and other careers that will never get one anywhere and it’s selling your very own living sol for materialistic junk you will never be happy with or have enough.
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    Going back to Mother Earth Gaia the creator maker. We can go back to eden only man has told us we can’t. They wrote a book about it. But no all loving unconditional god would ever tell you to get out. We can go back. Don’t listen to the lies of man. But thrive by following your heart which is where the home is.
    I am never wrong with the things I say above. As we have been brainwashed socially engineered and enslaved to conditioning of grooming that we don’t want or can’t get or don’t deserve this life.
    It’s the best life now. Anyone teaching you need more money or should chase it is a lying trap sending you down a wrong path of disillusionment and it will not and cannot ever make you happiest.
    To each their own . But this is a message sent with Devine love in it and this is why this matrix world will never ever teach this message. This matrix is designed to be only deception of the illusion of duality which is not how nature works.
    Singularity is how nature works. Meaning there is absolutely no such thing as good or bad or evil and holy etc. all works out perfectly in nature of heaven. Have you ever given it enough of a chance to find out?
    To the seeker I hope you consider it. Don’t think consciously too much either. With man made archons AI soulless beings - which use their words titles and labels of language to mislead you.
    Follow the visualize of your heart center. It will always be the intuition that’s guides you the right way. The brain will lead you back to materialize junk such as money cars and stuff you don’t need. Listen to the heart first.
    Allow the mind to balance to that target and watch what happens.
    -Kindest regards
    ~E.G.Plott~

  • @svetlanikolova7673
    @svetlanikolova7673 Před 3 lety

    Dirt is dead sterile ex soil
    compost turns in to humus then fertile soil
    Dont confuse the two

    • @naomisims7230
      @naomisims7230 Před 2 lety

      Let's not confuse THIS type of humus with the kind you can eat also.

  • @christyconatser9823
    @christyconatser9823 Před 3 lety

    I feel like you are using the terms "hay" and "straw" interchangeably. They are not the same thing.

  • @harrysollmer1644
    @harrysollmer1644 Před 9 měsíci

    Sorry toi long to wait for breakdown when k know we csn break ih godn in days and if you don't know well then youl'e keep doing it The Wrong way...

  • @gnarlytreeman
    @gnarlytreeman Před 5 lety

    I would only recommend using this as a subsoil, not as a surface compost. As especially not near anything edible, even fruit trees.

    • @Anamericanhomestead
      @Anamericanhomestead  Před 5 lety +5

      Do more research. There have been some excellent published university studies on the topic. No danger if done right and doing it right isn't hard.

  • @mattwooldridge7467
    @mattwooldridge7467 Před 3 lety

    Do you need a gun to compost or is that just an image thing?

    • @ShowMeMo
      @ShowMeMo Před 3 lety

      The Ozarks has mountain lions, bears and wild boars. Not to mention the occasional tweaker.

    • @fourdayhomestead2839
      @fourdayhomestead2839 Před 3 lety

      No sense in putting it away just to make a video. Most folks consider their side arm as daily wear (protection from lions, tigers & bears).