From Waste to Harvest: How Humanure Turns Toilets into Nutrient-Rich Soil for Your Garden | Humanure

[@Brovillion559]

It’s amazing how many ppl out there have no idea their food is grown in humanure. It may not be a big deal in North America but it’s used else where in the world.

[@michaelharland3008]

That absolute unit of a hemp plant in the background does not go unnoticed! Love your vids mate, keep it up!

[@JoeJoesFarm]

Absolutely mad !!

[@bariaissa1737]

Thank you

[@nateross14]

The way to make humanure safe is to have a clean natural diet with no drugs. People worry about ecoli, salmonella, and other pathogens too much. If you have a clean diet, Humanure composting is no different than kitchen scraps composting directly in the garden, other tham the smell. For courtesy sake, it's nice to let Humanure compost for 6 to 12 months before using it so it looses its smell and gross factor. Build up a strong immune system and don't worry about pathogens. Being exposed to small amounts is actually good for your immune system. The people that get sickest from pathogens are those who sterilize everything and never have exposure.

[@cray369]

Also don't use it to grow your food that's pretty key. Just use it to grow flowers and timber.

[@Technoanima]

@@cray369 You just have to poop in a different bucket for when you're ill. Not rocket science. A proper compost heap naturally will heat sterilize any anaerobic bacteria.

[@genesis3141]

This is one of the dumbest, least-informed comments on KZbin. Keeping humanure usage safe is a high priority for us all, and worry about bacterial contamination is absolutely important. Your attitude reeks of the naturalistic fallacy.

[@daiblaze1396]

Happy to read someone that is talking about the immune system as a whole unit. Yeah we are not supposed to be at war against these little fellows. In any case should we be at it, I guess that we have to learn that they will win everytime we disrecpect life. These little fellows show up when they have the right habitat. Eat more sugar and one will have the bacteria causing putrid stuff in his body. Fart ? As regards humanure, let us simply smell it. If it smells bad, don't use it as it is probably putrid or will need a good composting stage. If it smells like earth, my hearth tells me to use it. First time I am having a go on my corn this year. Just composting right over soil. The food web of life will make the dirty work. We just have to let them be and give them food. Never went better. It is visible. I have a portion with and one without (but still with compost like cover), just amazing how the growth is on the one with humanure. Just try to lead towards to what brings more life and we will everytime closer to the right way to go ! All the best !

[@treetalker76]

Agreed.

[@huggy-Bear]

Adding your sweat to finish the pile was a nice touch!

[@cstpimentel]

Hi, just chiming in to say you are such a nice gardening guide. Your videos make sense, and they are edited nicely. :)

[@eddyrai301]

Thank you from Germany 🇩🇪🌱💪🏽

[@phyzix_phyzix]

Loving these new videos every few days! Thanks

[@manuelrojas4483]

Es mágico!! Es lo más importante en los huertos.Si tienes compost,tienes un tesoro !! Saludos desde Tenerife !! 👌🏻👏🏻🍅🌸🥕🐝🥦🌽🫑🌞🌞

[@elwood212]

I imagine you don’t separate urine from solids because you have a tap?? Do you plumb yr liquids into a bottle or bucket? And I’d LOVE to see HOW you built your SOIL FACTORY BAY. Love your work David. Thanks for sharing.🙏💕🇦🇺

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Soon I will do a competition on the channel to find someone I can visit and build one for them (in Australia) and I will film that build.

[@danielfixborn5860]

Good video about an important issue. Here in Brasil, in the farm where I live, we are composting humanure in the last 8 years without big problemas.🎉

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Thanks for sharing

[@akcellr8r75]

Love your videos Weedy. Would give anything to live a clean hippy lifestyle like you.

[@susanappleby4506]

Love your videos.. and wisdom.. tried the compost in 21 days.. Have fab soil now for my carrots.. Stay Gold.

[@Technoanima]

Love the loo with a view!

[@danielbenettuce4544]

geniushumanure!

[@umerpashas96]

Please make video on irrigation systems

[@danielnaberhaus5337]

When i use pine shavings on my humanure the black soldier flies were able to slip through the cracks and process all the manure. There was already no smell or visible grossness before i even started composting it. Just need to figure out how to harvest them for bird food.

[@thejapanarchocommunist]

Question: you used creek water for the compost. Have you ever considered collecting rain water for that purpose? I have a friend of mine that runs a permaculture farm over here in Japan and they use a simple rainwater collection system flr their farm.

[@Dannafilms96]

Glad to see your hemp plants are also thriving ma man! Love this channel

[@bizzybee852]

Good information as always. What a beautiful spot you are blessed with for the weedy garden.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

It really is! thank you

[@funnywolffarm]

I wonder if you try without the molasses outside input.. maybe the results are fairly close.. some rotten fruits and/or veg may do the trick instead. Thanks for the video.

[@samiusdad9050]

nice Anastasia touch with the sweat :)

[@HelenRullesteg]

I know the weather can be miserable in Denmark, but I‘ll take it over the temps you seem to be having in Oz :-)) - great way to get rid of human waste.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Can’t sat I agrre with you on that. I spent 35 years in Denmark 😅

[@THF1424]

Hit that Like 👍 and subscribe. Get this info out in the utube world for others to see just how easy is looks to have a soil factory for your garden.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Hear hear 👍

[@peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo7920]

Amazing Humanure, ❤Weedy❤

[@eretzahava222]

Interesting.I think i need more than 21 days in the South of Spain, very dry, semi-tropical climate...i have bananas, mango, lychee, avocado, papaya, pomegranate growing.21 days is awesome!I am lookign forward trying this myself :)

[@TheWeedyGarden]

The climate should not make a difference really.

[@empresspetsandplants]

Thank you for sharing this. I would love to be your friend Mate

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Cyber friend 👋🏻

[@tessavekich]

Thanks!

[@TheWeedyGarden]

special 🎉hanks ✌️

[@johnwilton3496]

To compost humanure after 21 days is amazing. I thought it had to be left for a full year.

[@barbaricviking]

I thought so too... or half a year at least. But maybe it was saved for some time before being added to the compost pile?

[@dnawormcastings]

Great way to compost your own waste lots of poor countries are doing it and growing there own vegetables also 👍

[@vancamerawoman7399]

When the door is open, there’s someone in there. When it’s shut, it’s vacant. That’s my humanure compost loo 😊 I put a bucket of yurt food scraps in each time I add a bucket from the loo to the compost bay. I cover each donation in the loo with hardwood sawdust and cover it all in the compost bay with more sawdust. It works fabulously. No smell in the compost bay or the loo and the soil that’s made after 6-9 months is awesome. Why flush away water when you can have a great view and be making soil at the same time?i

[@narelle4868]

Brilliant! but shouldn't you be lazing in the shade somewhere in that heat?

[@TheWeedyGarden]

yes 😝

[@narelle4868]

@@TheWeedyGarden 😃 ah, but it's cooler today with the drizzly rain. Nice!

[@Taman_zainurnisa]

pupuk kandang adalah pupuk terbaik yang alami buat segala jenis tanaman, selamat anda memilih dengan tepat pak.

[@bigfoot3322]

Hey weedy, great video. I was spreading some of my compost the other day and i saw what i thought was a worm, but it was actually a new born mouse. Then later on the Cat was just staring at the dirt for 10 minutes and when i checked there was 2 more !!! I didn't even know mice laid babies in compost / soil.

[@Technoanima]

They do like the heat and the grubs in said heap.

[@djgriffin66]

Must admit we've been following the Humanure Handbook method...but that means leaving piles for years and I already have 3 now, prob need to make a 4th this year.... I checked the 1st one we did befor Winter and there were red wigglers in there.... so was thnking of using that to make a flower bed closer to my bee hive... wasn't gonna use any for the food area... but with the addition of the molasses and lab, it might be a good idea ... or at least speed it up ....

[@TheWeedyGarden]

LAB and turning will turn it into rich healthy safe soil in four weeks or less

[@karinchristensen220]

I've been following it for a year and a half when the septic tank failed and I was not going to pay ten thousand dollars for a new one. I love my composting bucket in the bathroom. I built a nice looking commode for it. It never clogs up and there isn't any smell, but I change it every three days. I have winters that last for 8 months so I have four bins (made with pallets so they are large) now. Not sure if I can use the first one or not. I will see what it looks like when the weather warms up. I will never go back to a flush toilet.

[@spoolsandbobbins]

We compost almost everything but human waste. I’d do it in a heartbeat but don’t think hubby would be on board 🤷‍♀️.

[@shamikabrown3076]

Show him this video

[@GrandmomZoo]

Hello my dear friend Weedy! 😊

[@TheWeedyGarden]

hey grandmomzoo 👋🏻

[@tinkeringinthailand8147]

Wonderful :)

[@jonsgreenfingers]

Hi mate, have you tried making Terra Preta? I think you're just the man for the job! I say that I've written to yourself and to David The Good another youber, he's been trying to make it too. SO it's the ancient black soil of the Amazon rainforest. I imagine you're already familiar with TP mate, but if not, you'll want to look it up first or the rest of this letter won't make much sense. By the way, love all your videos, I watch them with my son who's 11. Anyhoo, I wondered if you have tried using a fermentation or a Lactobacillus culture iin conjunction with the biochar in your compost trench? From my research, trying to get to the bottom of the recipe/process used by those good wise folk of the Amazon, and using a lot of imagination here, if you were a tribe in olden times, you would dig a waste trench just outside the communal area, for everybody's poop. They would have learned that if you add charcoal it doesn't smell, common sense right? And as it filled you would dig a new trench and fill it and so on. As communities were semi-nomadic, they would sometimes return to previously settled areas, they would notice that the old middens were now full of healthy plants, and having observed this they would repeat it in a deliberate way to create fertile soil over time. I imagine everything went into the midden, probably feces too or urine, probably one or the other but not both, they would have known they don't mix well for composting purposes. However I suspect those good wise folk of the Amazon, were partial to a beer or a fermentation and certainly modern indigenous folk make a "beer" from maize and saliva. I imagine they didn't always drink it all, or sometimes the brew would go wrong, anyhoo, it went in the midden and innoculated the biochar. Maybe. Then I watched the "Weedy Gardener" creating a lactobacillus culture using ricewater and molasses to speed up composting. I was making biochar at the time, so I thought maybe that's the secret to Terra Preta, it's the combination of charcoal and the microbial life in the soil, maybe it's a lacto culture, or some similar fermentation that's been thrown together with charcoal as waste. Also maybe time itself is a crucial ingredient too. They weren't in a hurry. Probably also needs super-sandy soil to begin with - all that leaching over long periods of time, rising out into the wider area, might account for how it can repopulate an area after being harvested. I live in the UK not the tropics, so I don't have molasses or sugar cane etc I'm experimenting with rhubarb as a fermentation but over in NZ, you might be able to experiment with it. Anyhoo, I hope you keep experimenting, I will keep experimenting, and maybe we can all share knowledge. Peace and Love Brother

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Sounds like you have not made yourself familiar with many of my other videos brother 🫵🏻👍💪🏻

[@TheWeedyGarden]

and yep, I have read a little bit of Terra Preta. That is what inspired me to mix biochar, poop and LAB together with other organic dead stuff

[@wildwindownorway]

I love you so much

[@Ok-vm7lg]

I was thinking we should be more adaptive, up until 100 years ago we disposed of our waste on the ground and grew our food there without thinking about it

[@ManivaHouse]

💚

[@miketing6971]

Great stuff as always David. But what’s the tap at the bottom of the bucket for? What do you do with whatever comes out of there?

[@daleireland]

I’d say it’s to drain the wee away and stop it from becoming too wet and sloppy and anaerobic. You want a relatively dry compost toilet. That’s why adding saw dust helps. I’d say the liquid just drains downhill onto the pasture. You can drain the liquid into a hay bale and the bale will decompose over time giving you more compost

[@miketing6971]

@@daleireland. Thanks mate. I’m a townie who wants to go as off grid so this stuff is all new to me.:)

[@melanieallen3655]

Great idea when you have no close neighbours..very interesting..

[@rahulmalsani6202]

❤❤❤

[@melanieallen3655]

Why does it have2 be unsolphered malassus please?

[@TheWeedyGarden]

because the sulphured molasses will kill the bacteria

[@melanieallen3655]

@@TheWeedyGarden interesting..thankyou..

[@arunm1877]

Don't we need to keep the compost under shed ?

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Do you mean under a roof? No. Not at all. First of all, you want the compost on the ground where the ground dwellers actually live and they can enter your pile. Secendly, using the plastic and turning every two days introduces the aerobic to the anaerobic, plus it is good to keep it covered to stop the rain just washing all the goodness away. You could have it in a shed I suppose, but a compost is meant to be outside

[@rubygray7749]

You need to read Joe Jenkins' book Humanure, and watch his many videos. Sawdust alone is all that's needed to kill the smell. The drum shouldn't have a drainage hole. The nitrogen in the liquid that is draining out (which is then contaminated raw effluent or black water), is what makes the pile heat up and compost safely. You need the urine component to balance all that sawdust and straw. It's a tragedy to waste it! It contains a treasure trove of soil nutrients. Every adult should be producing about 750 litres of this valuable fertiliser per year, which is enough (diluted 1 to 10) to grow that person's vegetables for the year.

[@misstweetypie1]

Since he is adding the humanize to a proper compost bed, I don’t think the urine is necessary.

[@faith2691]

I was talking to a friend about this when you uploaded! 😂

[@TheWeedyGarden]

👌

[@seeithearitknowit]

I want a louwithaview

[@kimberlytrikich1147]

Should you be a vegetarian to compost humanure ?

[@TheWeedyGarden]

No no not at all!

[@MatthewBayard]

Where did you get the hemp to grow? We would love to grow some too!

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Where did I get it to grow? What do you mean? Where did I get the seeds? If that`s what you mean, I got the seeds from the Northern Rivers Hemp Coop, but here in Aus you need a license.

[@MatthewBayard]

@@TheWeedyGarden Yes the seeds to grow. We are in Melbourne, Vic. Will you make a video of your hemp soon?

[@ECanSeanECanSean]

Has Anyone Told You, You Look exactly like PHIL BETTERMAN in the Movie The Croods The New Age. And their is one more Resemblance even He Loves Planting. 😊

[@locke6531]

👍

[@s-c..]

Delicious : )

[@TobiasDuncan]

Great topic today! Remember kids, you can use your urine as nitrogen fertilizer today. Just dilute it with water (some say 5 to 1 some say 10 to 1) and you can put that on your plants for a much needed boost. It is not easy to nature to extract nitrogen from the air so dont flush that wonderful resource down the toilet

[@nateross14]

Urine is high in salts and using too much of it can cause excess salt build up in your soil. As a rule of thumb, it's better to just compost your humanure and use it as fertilizer, and the amount of urine that is naturally in your humanure that's added when you go #2 in the compost toilet is sufficient. I wouldn't go adding extra urine beyond that to my garden, but that's just me.

[@TobiasDuncan]

I disagree, it will take years for significant salts to build up and if you have decent drainage , they will get flushed away before this happens. Most fertilizer is salt heavy and in intensive farming it does become a problem. But your garden will never see that much salt just from the urine of one or two humans

[@udoheinz7845]

was there a giant hemp plant in the back?

[@snakeboy188]

"hemp"

[@snakeboy188]

👀

[@TheSunnyTrails]

Yeah he’s got a license for it. It’s for science!

[@dragoniousmaximus7304]

We call them "Tomato plants"

[@lpmoron6258]

I will watch that again! 😉

[@chriscanadahello]

i pee in my compost, i should pee in a jar to make it more sour, that should scare the dam squirles from messing around everyday

[@ForagerLife]

Amazing how many tomatoes pop up if you pop a squat somewhere 👍

[@rickthelian2215]

Nice , wouldn’t tell too many people your taking or pumping water from the Creek.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Why not? It is normal and that is how most folks get their water here. Totally “legal” if that’s what you are thinking.

[@TheReaderOnTheWall]

You could also make a black box, with glass on one side, maybe a fresnel lens, put your poop in there for a bit, and it'll dry in no time, killing the poop bacteria, making it safe to mix with normal compost.

[@pollyjazz]

Did you make this up or can I find any info on the net about this black box method?

[@georgelee9099]

now we know why its called the weedy garden )

[@TheWeedyGarden]

👁

[@Colin-pg2su]

leave it to the weedy garden to make poop, kool.

[@douglastobin8996]

Uve bean bitten buy th bug2 feed th soil2grow yr soul tangled inth Webb of life permaculture buy design

[@hnghiem2032]

Use masks when you work with compost better.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

The more you protect yourself from little bugs the more likely your imune system is getting lazy. You want to stay healthy, roll around in the compost naked is my opinion lol 🤣🤣🤣 I don’t wear shoes, cloves or masks and I am never ill.

[@MarcelinoDanielsson-le4mz]

Anyone can make this shit.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

YEAH. LOL

[@cstpimentel]

Thanks!

[@TheWeedyGarden]

same here 🙏🏻