httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6UnBmG-Xhk Great video of a super simple compost pile doing what it does...love it! Based on such a huge volume of leaves and grass (I'm jealous), that alone is enough to get hot composting in action. I have a feeling his pile was hotter than the guesstimate of 90 degrees. If he was right, however, he could definitely help out his pile temperature by adding humanure to it... :)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBZwOqLJvBA In the spirit of humanure composting, I started looking at other videos on Youtube besides those created by the master Joseph Jenkins to see what's happening. After reading Humanure Handbook twice, it was interesting to see this system in place and wonder where they adapted it from. My main question is simply why they go to all the trouble of having dozens of buckets sitting around with small quantities of material in them when they could just build two 5'x5'x5' compost bins and do it that way instead. Either way, composting is composting and it's great to see this going on. Also, regarding their compost toilet, she mentions the only odors being from when there's too much urine...this can simply be solved by adding more cover materials. I started…