DIY Composting Bathroom

CompostingIn nature, mycelium (mushrooms) grow when they break down petroleum contaminants into components edible by soil microbes. Composting was imported to America by various followers of those early European actions by the likes of J.I. Rodale (founding father of Rodale Organic Gardening), E.E. Pfeiffer (who developed scientific practices in biodynamic farming), Paul Keene (founding father of Walnut Acres in Pennsylvania), and Scott and Helen Nearing (who impressed the back-to-the-land movement of the Sixties).

The solids drop into the eco-bin, the place they’re cooked to kill pathogens (desiccated), or blended with a composting materials like sawdust, which heats up during the … Read more