This is our toilet.[1]It's basically just a bucket. I emptied it before videotaping because I thought that might be in your interest. And we mix the contents with wood chips. That takes away any bad smell.[2]Then when I empty the bucket I take the bucket outside.
Then we empty the contents on the property where we build piles for plants.[3]Here is one. As you can see it's made up of all sorts of things, including the contents of the bucket. Then we plant a tree on top of it. And vegetables, herbs, bushes etc, etc, etc. This is one of the piles or hugels we made last year. As you can see there is a tree growing on top of it.[4]And some other edible plants. Actually I didn't use the toilet bucket for this one because we were supposed to eat it this year. But if you're not supposed to eat whatever grows on the pile this year and possibly even the next year, then you can very well use the contents of your bucket.[5]
Rather than put the contents of the bucket in a compost, it's better to put it directly where you're supposed to grow something. If you instead take the contents and put it directly where you want the earth to be,[6]because this turns into earth,[7]then you also get the good things from the contents where you want it to go.
Another advantage with putting the contents of the buckets like that is that bees and other insects make use of urine for example.[8]They take minerals and such from it and they can easily gain access to it if you just put it... [an insect flies by] That's a bee. I'm going to open the window to let it out. So the bee is outside, I can continue. You don't pollute the ocean by doing it this way. Or risk leakage of sewage into drinking water, or need huge water cleaning facilities to avoid a total disaster. Nor do you, if you are a woman stupid enough to be on "the pill", pollute the ocean with hormones - turning all sorts of creatures into abominations of the worst sort.
By the way, only the most intelligent of all creatures, human beings, appear to be stupid enough to shit and piss in its own drinking water. Animals don't do that (save sea creatures, of course). Rather odd. And you get more material for growing food in your own garden.
Note though that if you have a bucket instead of a water closet, you probably need a property with a garden of some size.[9]Maybe not actually even of "some size", but at least you need a garden. And you also have to consider neighbours and such, because you don't want to empty the bucket right next to the fence of the neighbour, because that might cause some inconvenience and some neighbour quarrels, which of course is not that uncommon in this world. The closer you get to people, the more problem you tend to have with them. That's life. Bye bye.
If you can, you should use rain water to clean the bucket as well, and you can water the unfinished mounds with the dirty water you get from doing so. And when SHTF, and people die like flies in the cities, from drinking polluted water, and from living and walking in their own shit, you can move on unaffected by this. Thank you for watching.
Then we empty the contents on the property where we build piles for plants.[3]Here is one. As you can see it's made up of all sorts of things, including the contents of the bucket. Then we plant a tree on top of it. And vegetables, herbs, bushes etc, etc, etc. This is one of the piles or hugels we made last year. As you can see there is a tree growing on top of it.[4]And some other edible plants. Actually I didn't use the toilet bucket for this one because we were supposed to eat it this year. But if you're not supposed to eat whatever grows on the pile this year and possibly even the next year, then you can very well use the contents of your bucket.[5]
Rather than put the contents of the bucket in a compost, it's better to put it directly where you're supposed to grow something. If you instead take the contents and put it directly where you want the earth to be,[6]because this turns into earth,[7]then you also get the good things from the contents where you want it to go.
Another advantage with putting the contents of the buckets like that is that bees and other insects make use of urine for example.[8]They take minerals and such from it and they can easily gain access to it if you just put it... [an insect flies by] That's a bee. I'm going to open the window to let it out. So the bee is outside, I can continue. You don't pollute the ocean by doing it this way. Or risk leakage of sewage into drinking water, or need huge water cleaning facilities to avoid a total disaster. Nor do you, if you are a woman stupid enough to be on "the pill", pollute the ocean with hormones - turning all sorts of creatures into abominations of the worst sort.
I NEVER exaggerate.
By the way, only the most intelligent of all creatures, human beings, appear to be stupid enough to shit and piss in its own drinking water. Animals don't do that (save sea creatures, of course). Rather odd. And you get more material for growing food in your own garden.
Note though that if you have a bucket instead of a water closet, you probably need a property with a garden of some size.[9]Maybe not actually even of "some size", but at least you need a garden. And you also have to consider neighbours and such, because you don't want to empty the bucket right next to the fence of the neighbour, because that might cause some inconvenience and some neighbour quarrels, which of course is not that uncommon in this world. The closer you get to people, the more problem you tend to have with them. That's life. Bye bye.
If you can, you should use rain water to clean the bucket as well, and you can water the unfinished mounds with the dirty water you get from doing so. And when SHTF, and people die like flies in the cities, from drinking polluted water, and from living and walking in their own shit, you can move on unaffected by this. Thank you for watching.
- You can buy a dry toilet like this pre-fabricated, or you can just build one like it yourself.
- If you saw your own wood, you can produce much of the wood ships yourself. You don't need wood chips though, and can simply instead empty the bucket after every use.
- The piles are made of: rotten wood, the contents of our buckets,
fallen leaves and twigs, grass and green leaves, some soil, and the like... The piles are better than a normal vegetable garden, for most things. - Maybe "mound" is a better word for it?
- You can perfectly well eat it even if you do, but some might find that a bit too rustic.
- Instead of putting it on a compost, that is
- What a surprise!
- And in case you didn't know: bees are very useful.
- What a surprise!
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