Simple low-cost charcoal and tiger worm grey-water system

[@melsparkles]

The charcoal/ash could be in a box with wheels that you could just wheel out and empty straight into the chook yard to simplify things unless you enjoy the digging out etc.

[@amandaj2888]

I really appreciate your low cost, low tech solutions. Much more accessible for the majority of us 💚

[@roseydays]

that was the best natural way of filtering gray water

[@wildwoman8494]

Awesome, Magical and amazing. Blessed be.

[@elli2193]

Your videos always are a pleasure. Great aids with simple devices everyone can afford and build on his own. Your greywater system is something I will keep in mind for my upcoming living situation. I appreciate your contents very much!

[@artistasfamily]

Thanks Elli

[@fancyname5997]

Thanks for the representation of such a practical system! Resonate with the tech over relational thinking :/ there is a lot of money to be made from commodifying people’s ways of life. Thanks again for a great video!

[@Nicktuck333]

Great video, informative and inspirational.

[@juliejennings7459]

This was brilliant. We have just moved into an old country house ( Portugal) and I realised that the shower and washbasin just empty out of a pipe onto a pile of slates!! I was looking for this exact video to help me get going with a grey water system. Thanks again. I look forward to following your future advice.😚

[@janiceinman1731]

Thank you! Such great information.

[@CRHall-ud9mq]

Lots of thanks for sharing a beautiful life, through this most enjoyable video. I now understand much more. I love that the biology of the living spirit is at the heart of creation, a teacher that helps us relate through the connectivity of all living things, forming universal relationship/s.

[@gljuhtub]

Thanks for your informative video. I really appreciate the energy put into sharing this! Have a great day!

[@segolenemioni2919]

Thank you so much for this sharing, this video answers to one of our most important question about the path of water into homestead. We are really grateful to you to take time and ressource to share your knowledge and experience all over the world, so with us, living so far :) . Composting capitalism is an international battle even it begins where we are living, so in a local frame. All of your work about land, how live in, make light on indegenous way of life feeds our thinking. We are living in France, an historic colonizing country which stifle many indigenous cultures, starting from within their own borders ! We feel sadness when we see all the cultural richness and plurality lost in a standardized way of life. So we wrote a proverb : here belongs to those who live in there. Not only humans of course, but every living being. We take the right to be indians and now we are thinking about how we can share our awareness around us. We begin by taking a entrance by our craft, stone cutting. It seems to be many perspectives and we enjoy it. Last point, but not least, with your work, we really opened eyes on the importance to keep fair, and symbol every day. I am not talking about religion of course, but the capacity of language to create an image, and thus question the relevance of our daily actions. We love stories when we are kids, why should we go without them the rest of our life ? Stop here the digression, which it all started with coal and worm. But we still wanted to express our gratitude to you. As you already said in previous films, thankfulness is essential. Spring greetings to you from Thibault, Ségolène, Ernest and Frou ! We still have a lot of doubts about our ability to write in English, we hope we have no errors or misinterpretations, if so, please excuse us.

[@artistasfamily]

Thank you. That was a beautiful response. If English is your second or third language, you must be poets in your first. Sending much love and spirit into your neighbourhood. Goodly things must be afloat there. Artist as Family

[@laurapfeifer749]

I love that you generously share your experience with a self absorbed society, I love that you model what can be, in the face of what should have never been and feels impossible to fight against (here in US they will not allow many things that are self sufficient and natural, people have been fined and worse for trying to collect rain).

[@tonyhussey3610]

This makes me so sad... Collected rain water shoud be a basic human right..

[@laurapfeifer749]

Thank you, is the correct response. We may try your composting toilette, I have held back due to people saying it takes 2, some say 3 years to use the waste. I trust your experience far more than any book. So many people write books with no real experience or full of information based on govt narratives. I like you. I've been watching for a long time now. It takes me a long time to trust anyone. Thanks again. It feels good to find someone that you believe in, and feel an honest trust for.

[@treesagreen4191]

So simple. Thanks!

[@ennelya]

I loved this, thanx for sharing! Now we just need to collect the charcoal! Great!👍 🙏 💜

[@sundaze3115]

Wow, how we over complicate things. Thank you for showing this simple grey water system. Do you have links to the swale safe & washing machine detergents you use? Or recipes if you make them? Thank you again 😊

[@pennygrimes8425]

Love this, thank you!

[@SJR-o6x]

Haha that dog looks like he’s experienced the turning of compost with rodents scattering. Posted up ready for action 😂

[@slaplapdog]

I have first filter named Blue, she is very good at her job!

[@conormcnamee6367]

Thank you!

[@isabelladavis1363]

Wonderful information…

[@mistypie4130]

Thank you for sharing! Your homestead is beautiful and you have so much wisdom and knowledge 😊❤️ I didn’t catch whether you left some of the tiger worms in after you cleaned it out or if you replaced a new batch ?

[@artistasfamily]

Thanks Misty, yes we put about 20 in yesterday.

[@courtneyheron1561]

Thank you

[@permacultisdruid3867]

Great stuff. Thanks.

[@turtlepower636]

Good video!

[@adeadcrab]

this is the underground john at retirement

[@jarronhaleysorrell]

Awesome But in your grease trap bucket you need to change the outlet pipe to not let any floating fat out. Needs to bend into the bucket well below the high tide line (even almost to the bottom to pick up solid food scraps) where the fat floats and sits. If that makes sense

[@artistasfamily]

Thank you. We capture solid food scraps in the sink with a strainer to minimise that problem. Yes, we initially set up that S-bend but it snapped off and it doesn't seem to be causing too much of an issue.

[@jarronhaleysorrell]

@@artistasfamily bend inside the little bucket not on the outside

[@mute7116]

I am interested. Question: I live in a four season climate...snow and freezing is definitely one of those. Any ideas or resource recommendations? Thanks. New sub.

[@lianessyes7238]

I love the simplicity of the design. Somehow you manage to make a grey water system look somewhat elegant. Woody asked the question on adding the tiger warms every time you change the charcoal, can you elaborate on what a "starter" is? Thanks in advance.

[@artistasfamily]

Thanks Lianess, a ‘starter’ of tiger worms is a small handful that rapidly expand their numbers as food becomes available.

[@lianessyes7238]

@@artistasfamily Awesome, going to try this with our laundry water, using good soaps. Good work. Sending you all some sunshine from Cali.

[@countrymousesfarmhouse497]

Just watched this twice in a row. Excellent system. I'm talking it over with hubby now ,to see how we could include that here . We have an existing grey water system, we're thinking maybe of doing something like this down from that. Currently i just run that water through deep mulch near fruit trees to water them. I definitely want to improve on that though.Sort of related question, can old rags made of natural materials, that ive cleaned animal fats out of pans in the kitchen be put under the deep litter system in the chook pen too? To compost there. Thank you

[@artistasfamily]

Yeah, reckon that would work OK Countrymouse

[@sundancer442]

Hey there, great vid. Charcoal in my isolated town is expensive. Can you use something else ?

[@colbywilliams7595]

Do temperatures ever go below freezing where you live? Do you have to worry about ice forming in the pipes at all? I wonder how something like this would be designed in a cold climate.

[@artistasfamily]

Our lowest temperatures get to around 7 degrees Celsius although winter temps usually only get down to 0 overnight and 8 during the day.

[@berrybestfarmer9614]

Tried a scaled down version in my zone 4 climate. It freezes up. I have no slope so burrying the system wont work. Still, for a warmer climate or summer home this is an excellent low tech solution.

[@dimitricesarini8911]

hi, I appreciate your good work but I would suggest you put a degreaser before the coal

[@ebonyrose2039]

thanks for the info. after looking into it i found that it is better to use the Eisenia andrei worms and not the common Eisenia fetida ( tiger worm) because they're more resistant to the oil and better at cleaning. Has anyone tried this with different worms?

[@ellenschindler4764]

great simple system, what is the brand of your greywater safe detergent? what fat do you use for your soap making? Maybe that’s a video in the making?

[@zarast01]

So the soaps and suds don’t hurt or kill the worms?

[@jbyrd2516]

You mentioned Zero as part of the system. I understood the first clean part, and I’ve looked at your humanure compost video but what do you do with Zero’s poo? Thanks for this wonderful series, much appreciated.

[@turtlepower636]

Wonder how this would work where it gets really wet sometimes the leaching into streams etc

[@mitsui32]

is possible to dry used charcoal after chickens clean it and than burn it to the end in stove, putting on good fire in paper pockets or just

[@borninthewrongera6888]

will you have to add worms ?

[@artistasfamily]

Yes, we added about 20. Thanks for asking

[@TheLadySakai]

cant the worms be taken out and reused?

[@artistasfamily]

Yes, or fed to the chooks as added protein.

[@bjohnston3659]

Sorry, what are tiger worms? Are they peculiar to the Southern Hemisphere, or might they go by a different name up here in the frozen north (Canada)?

[@artistasfamily]

Any kind of compost worms will do the job. :)

[@naturewoman1274]

Lol another person who doesn't wear shoes in the garden

[@Tyrack9420]

People look at those with money or fame and want to be them, dream to be where they are....I look at you and think the same thing, what you have in my opinion is far superior to fame or money So that charcoal eventually turns into soil?

[@bhsbass]

I came here for the dog.

[@mstreefern]

Interesting but how about speeding up the shoveling? Two-thirds of the vid is just you shoveling out the pit😅

[@RC-qf3mp]

Get a pet pig instead of a dog. The pig will eat up all scraps and fat. And when the pig gets too big and needs more food than you have, you eat the pig and get a new, smaller one. Amish use pigs for garbage disposal.

[@joxxxyalpharius2008]

sorry sir, but that not really hygienic... you can do better and more healthy

[@thomasg4324]

*What a waste of time & energy.*

[@RC-qf3mp]

You should look at the time energy involved in alternate ways of dealing with gray water. Like municipal systems.

[@subscirbers6578]

Y don't u bury it in dirt (toilet)