Humanure handbook torrent

This is a video specifically for humanure composters, but this quick pallet bin process will work for any type of composting.

Joe Jenkins, author of the Humanure Handbook, shows how to put up a bin in 10 minutes, empty humanure receptacles, and use cover material to create a safe, ecological sanitation system.

Build your own loo. My son and I will be off grid for 6 months at a time and man am I glad to have found you. After a lot of research yours makes so much sense and your long time experience sold me.

I will be in touch, thanks again! Thank you so much for all of the work you do on this subject. The Humanure Handbook was an accidental literary phenomenon.

Joe Jenkins began writing the book as a master's thesis while attending Slippery Rock University's Master of Science in Sustainable Systems program in Pennsylvania in the early 90s.

Fastinated with the topic of humanure composting, Jenkins decided to convert the book's language into a popular format and self-publish the thesis as a book. Jenkins maintains a business in north western Pennsylvania Joseph Jenkins, Inc. Any society that grows up with water toilets seems to have an arrested development when it comes to the recycling of organic material, especially what comes from their own bodies. Did I use a fish net?

I said no, I trained my kids to bob for them like bobbing for apples, with their hands behind their backs. During the live interview, I informed them that I had been composting humanure for about 20 years and I had used all the compost for growing food.

They censored that After the interview, they segued into a nice, wholesome segment about anal intercourse with midgets. No more disgusting talk about recycling turds. But the methods outlined within have the potential to change the ecological fate of the world. She co-founded KerWatt, which develops citizen projects renewable energy in Brittany, France. More than thirty years since its first publication, Kathleen Meyer delivers an update to the beloved guide to relieving yourself responsibly.

Meyer's delightfully shameless discussion of a once-secretive activity examines the environmental impact of too much crap organic and otherwise on our ever-shrinking wild outdoors. With the rising popularity of hiking and off-the-grid backpacking as well as the current climate crisis, How to Shit in the Woods provides timely techniques for keeping trails, bushes, and wild waters clean and protected when indoor plumbing is not an option.

Meyer shares proper procedures in a way that is approachable and comprehensible for all audiences, from beginner to expert. The fourth edition features updates to outdoor laws and regulations, health statistics, and recommendations for equipment such as special trowels, funnels, and portable toilets. With more than three million copies sold, How to Shit in the Woods is the backcountry backpacker's bible, crucial for anyone looking to be wiser with their waste.

Growing Food in the Southwest Mountains will teach you how to deal with dry weather, high winds, intense sunlight, cold nights, summer heat, insect pests, weeds and other challenges of the high-elevation Southwest. This 4th edition of this popular regional gardening book contains more than four times the information in the 3rd edition.

The 4th edition includes: Information applicable to an expanded geographical range including the highlands of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California. An expanded list of fruit, herbs, vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds with detailed planting information on water, sun and soil needs, USDA zones, pollination requirements and more.

A thorough look at how climate change is altering gardening at high elevations in the Southwest. Why we need to recreate local food systems in an era of climate change and resource depletion. An expanded description of permaculture garden design for our bioregion including a new chapter on creating plant guild ecosystems in harmony with your local wild ecosystems and wildlife.

Learn how to attract native pollinators and other beneficial insects and birds to your garden while keeping out garden pests. Expanded chapters on improving local soils, rainwater harvesting, greywater reuse, xeriscaping and other efficient garden watering methods, cold climate gardening in the semi-arid Southwest, gardening in sunny, shady and windy conditions, planting windbreaks, protecting plants from hail, fireproofing your yard and gardens, dealing with garden pests and diseases in an ecological manner, choosing seeds and seedlings, detailed seedling-raising information, seed saving and more.

The new final chapter contains a brief history of Southwestern gathering, horticultural, agricultural and food traditions of Native Americans and European-American settlers.

The chapter ends with a peek at creating a new bioregional cuisine from these traditions and traditions from similar ecosystems around the world such as the Andes Mountains and Tibetan Plateau. Appendices include glossaries of food plants and ingredient substitutions using foods that can be grown locally, and a large resource section of books, catalogs, magazines, DVDs, arboretums and permaculture institutes.

For the first time the book includes an index. Hundreds of black and white drawings. Most of the book is also useful to gardeners living in ponderosa forests and pinyon-juniper woodlands below 6, feet. Most of the information is also applicable to higher-elevation aspen-spruce-fir forests. Lisa draws from her extensive background in ecology and permaculture to create a holistic approach to gardening.

The book contains critical information on microclimates and soils and on selecting appropriate species and varieties that are adapted to high elevations and short growing seasons. She also incorporates helpful information on the history of growing food in the Southwest, describes guilds of species that create thriving forest gardens, and recommends appropriate times to plant your seeds and starts.

The appendices, which include a list of food substitutes, a glossary of food crops, and several pages of additional resources are well worth the price of the book. I highly recommend this book for anyone in the Southwest Mountains who is serious about growing their own food. Handsome original line drawings by Zachary Zdinack and old-fashioned woodcuts of garden scenes and plants ably enhance the text.

The large, spiral-bound book, five to eight times the volume of its original predecessor, lays open easily There is excellent material on the political and economic imperatives for local food production, climate and microclimate, plants, soils, water management, garden pests, seeds, composting and basic garden layout.

I really like the book and respect the hard work it took to assemble so much useful information on crops, soil, and climates. She has delved deeply into the synergistic implications of climate - including climate change - topography, transportation, demographics, microclimates, and much more Since the current industrial agriculture system relies heavily on fossil fuel consumption to produce and transport peak food, the need for alternatives -- including local, sustainable food supplies -- is ever-increasing.

Growing Food in the Southwest Mountains discusses the basics of the Southwest Mountain climate, how to create permaculture zones, warnings against invasive species, tips for creating garden-friendly eco-communities, soil maintenance advice, watering strategies, advice for dealing with so-called 'pests,' a brief history of Southwestern food traditions and much more.