RE: Fixing the nutrient cycle

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Fixing the nutrient cycle

in homesteading •  7 years ago 

I'm new to Steemit and your blog. How do you compost the humanure? We are turning one of our toilets into a composting toilet (well, a bucket and sawdust :) ). Our friends leave the buckets outside with covers for a year, then empty. Do you compost with the other manure?

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We have two piles, one for the animal manure and a second for the humanure. We keep them separate to ensure we don't get sick. For us, we just put it in a pile and let it sit for a year or two. We don't make any special effort to turn the compost, etc as we don't have the time to worry about that. It would compost faster if we put more time and energy into the composting piles, but letting them sit for a few years does the trick too!