Getting Our Poop In a Group, Part Three: Finishing the Compost BinsGTuesday, May 14th, 2013 With Spring officially here, we were able to spend a day finishing the compost bins we started last winter. We decided to put them against the east side of our clearing, next to where the gardens will be. This is the first real structure we've bui...
Getting Our Poop In a Group, Part Two: Building Compost BinsPGMonday, May 13th, 2013 During the first few weeks living in our camper, I'd feel a sense of impending doom every time I lifted the lid of our composting toilet: the sawdust level would be mounting, moving ever closer to the top of the container. Invariably, the sight of...
Getting Our Poop In a Group, Part One: Our Composting ToiletGWednesday, May 8th, 2013 Last year, Tyler and I read The Humanure Handbook, a fantastically eye-opening book about how to safely compost your own waste and return it to the soil as fertilizer. The simple system this book describes uses sawdust toilets (a receptacle with a ...