cold smoker + composting toilet = weird combo

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www.permies.com Karen biondo of La Biondo Farm and Kitchen shows us a shed that serves as both a cold smoker and a composting toilet. What a wacky combination! Karen smokes pork and salmon in the cold smoker. She uses alder in an old wood stove for the smoker. Then you step around the corner and there is a composting toilet. No smell She says the secret to keeping the smell away is the use of peat moss or wood shavings. Apparently it goes three or four months between needing to be emptied. Relevant threads at permies: www.permies.com www.permies.com www.permies.com www.permies.com www.permies.com music by Jimmy Pardo

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23 Responses to cold smoker + composting toilet = weird combo

  1. I like her! She is fun!!!

    Gypsymamajoy
    July 28, 2012 at 4:18 pm
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  2. i’m 19 and just discovered this. THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE LIKE ME!!!!! i love Permies.com

    dasgemuse
    July 28, 2012 at 4:20 pm
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  3. anybody read The Humanure Handbook? its a good one check it out.

    BlanketTruth22
    July 28, 2012 at 4:47 pm
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  4. I so wish these vids were longer and more in depth, but thank you for everything you do give us!

    Profit187
    July 28, 2012 at 5:05 pm
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  5. Wait, isn’t it the same as conventional manure if you “solarize” it? Let it bake and process for a long period of time? I mean, people in China have been using humanure for centuries haven’t they?

    nerdmom920
    July 28, 2012 at 5:57 pm
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  6. Gotta be careful you don’t get the plumbing wrong and blow smoke up your ass

    RocketCityGardener
    July 28, 2012 at 6:02 pm
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  7. Great, original combination idea! With reference to the use of compost toilet compost on vegetables, it depends on who uses the facility if it’s only you and your family, with a known state of health then it’s OK. We’ve all been living too long in the shadow of advertising and product placement, the idea of asepsis is just that. What do people think happens to the waste from the ‘treatment’ plants – it is already been dumped as slurry back onto conventional food crops – google it and see.

    Organikmechanic
    July 28, 2012 at 6:50 pm
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  8. Thanks for the vid. Keep’em coming.

    ibboat
    July 28, 2012 at 7:31 pm
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  9. Well I must say she looks healthy enough. But I wonder what the garden does with Prozac 🙂

    Garyscott7
    July 28, 2012 at 7:40 pm
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  10. I’m not sure I’d be all that comfortable having a smokehouse right next to an outhouse, they probably will never have any problems but it just don’t sit right with me for some reason.

    Redshift21
    July 28, 2012 at 8:17 pm
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  11. thats one hell of a combo

    drywallit43
    July 28, 2012 at 8:51 pm
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  12. also pharmaceuticals can be an issue…..

    fourwindsflowers
    July 28, 2012 at 9:37 pm
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  13. people do. i wouldn’t.

    paulwheaton12
    July 28, 2012 at 10:14 pm
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  14. Thank you! It’s good to know that.

    docsimonson
    July 28, 2012 at 11:10 pm
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  15. I agree. And I must I admit I was surprised when I first heard of people being concerned about both septic and sewer systems. So I’ll spell out what you probably know, but which was shocking to me: septic systems can leach icky stuff into the groundwater–particularly because it’s below the plant layer that usually filters things out before they are rinsed underground by the rain. In sewer systems, “treated” water is often released into local lakes, rivers or the ocean.

    ahnamay
    July 28, 2012 at 11:21 pm
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  16. No, you cannot use compost from a toilet on vegetables, unless PROPERLY composted utilizing thermophilic bacteria that heat the material to a high enough temperature to kill what pathogens might be left in the human waste.

    AIMHanthrem
    July 29, 2012 at 12:08 am
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  17. I noticed that she said she uses the compost from the toilet on the flower beds. and your thanks to her for not having used it on the Asparagus bed. Can you use compost from a toilet on vegetable gardens?

    docsimonson
    July 29, 2012 at 12:58 am
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  18. LOVE Samon!! way to go Miss!!!

    spiritartman
    July 29, 2012 at 1:13 am
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  19. Certainly a uniques combination but also certainly making use of a structure that is already there. Not quite stacking functions more like side by side functions. Thanks!

    lavenderdawnstar
    July 29, 2012 at 1:22 am
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  20. 🙂 Loving the videos - thank you!

    cocotan6
    July 29, 2012 at 1:25 am
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  21. most people, i suppose, have no idea where their poop is going.
    they ass-ume that it is being processed properly if they bother to consider at all.
    well done vid.

    jamesa4050
    July 29, 2012 at 2:21 am
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  22. That is a weird combo if I ever saw one. LOL

    TheCatfishClayton
    July 29, 2012 at 3:04 am
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  23. Thanks for your videos.

    aybesee123
    July 29, 2012 at 3:23 am
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