A not so crappy history of Night Soil

[Dirtmechanic]

A history of humanure:

A History of Human Waste as Fertilizer - JSTOR Daily

In eighteenth century Japan, human excrement played a vital role in agriculture. Can similar solutions help manage waste today?

daily.jstor.org

So Nitrous Oxides are the 3rd most effective greenhouse gas behind methane and CO2. Released from microbial attack and oxidation of nitrogen fertilizer. Charts show advanced rates climbing with modern fertilizer usage.

 

[SprigOfTheLivingDead]

Here's two other good pieces on the subject. I immediately thought of the Radio Lab episode when I saw your thread

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/66140/new-york-citys-poop-train

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/poop-train

 

[baymule]

Very interesting articles. However it does not make me want to compost the household poop.

 

[OlympicChick]

We compost our household poop, lol! It's at our off grid property though, not our main home. We will let it compost for two years before we use it.

www.humanurehandbook.com

 

[flowerbug]

We compost our household poop, lol! It's at our off grid property though, not our main home. We will let it compost for two years before we use it.

www.humanurehandbook.com

i wish i had a safe enough place to do it, but this place won't work for it at all. just too much water around.

the composting i can do is food/paper scraps and worm composting. i'm just restarting some of my worm buckets up after they were used out in the gardens during planting season. with a lot of strawberries coming in lately and having scraps from putting those up i have a lot of goodies for the worms so i need to get them back up and going.

 

[Dirtmechanic]

I am not suprised to see that this thread has floated up again.

 

[ducks4you]

Keeping with the theme of waste matter:

Five Foods You Can Substitute For Garden Fertilizer - Modern Farmer

If you were raising a human, you’d want to make sure that it was eating properly. The same goes for your garden babies. Plants thrive on a number of

modernfarmer.com

 

[Marie2020]

I thinks I'll stick with fruit veg and egg shells with a bit of grass for good measure. My compost has been building up since may & it's looking like compost already.

 

[Marie2020]

I forgot to say I throw in wood chipping/chicken offerings too. This really helps my compost.

 

[Dirtmechanic]

I forgot to say I throw in wood chipping/chicken offerings too. This really helps my compost.

Would you believe an entire civilization, the indians that created the soil called Terra Preta, did the exact same thing? Their topsoil was 30-35 feet deep when we discovered what they had created over so many generations.