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polymoog said:
...get the septic system out of your mind. thats 'grid' thinking. youre going to start capturing and saving that as fertilizer.
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Call me picky, but I'd never, ever, eat food that's been grown in sh*t..;)
A place like this (which we'd call 'Doomsday Hall') would be my survival groups post-apocalyptic hangout, and we'd simply sling our buckets of poo and pee into the river to be carried away by the current..:)-







 
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Tidal said:
A place like this'd be my survival groups post-apocalyptic hangout, and we'd simply sling our buckets of poo and pee into the river to be carried away by the current..:)-
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go ahead, but thats flat out ignorant. youre throwing away compost gold.
 
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2cool4thisplanet said:
Maybe not for edible foods though....
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of course for edible foods. all trees and shrubs should have it buried around the trunk. fruit trees respond very well to it. vegetables... it would probably be safer to compost it first and then add it, but youll lose a lot of the nitrogen.

if you dont want to use it, you can start a black soldier fly harvest box. dump the poo in there with any table scraps or whatever, and have the soldier fly larvae consume it. once the culture is going, they are voracious so there is no smell since its finished off quickly. the large larvae can be harvested and fed as a highly nutritious protein rich feed for chickens.
the black soldier flies will outcompete greenbottle flies and other disease vectors once established, and of course the black soldier flies are disease-free. and they dont sting or bite.
 
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justjess said:
All my arguments. Exactly. Thank you lol. Like I said I’m the one looking at plots and I am not forwarding any less than 20acres. So either they will get on board or we will go out separate ways and do it differently. I’m not going to buy too little land
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Depends how many people will be living in our little kingdoms, so we better have enough people to work the land to feed themselves..:)-

(in this pic i've added coils of wire (red) for security)-



More elbow room in this one-
 
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Maes17 said:
Put up a barbed wire fence, while society is still on grid - drones. Plenty of drones.
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Yay for the wire (below), but what'll the drones be used for?
Here's another of my pics from the Survival Podcast forum where I hang-

 
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2cool4thisplanet said:
@Tidal I wouldn't contaminate the water that way. Better suggestions about burying it in the woods or something like that. Fertilizer isn't a bad idea. Maybe not for edible foods though....
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Cintra said:
Bloody hell...
Dont throw it in the river...
Dig a hole, put it in.
Crap in...
Some time passes...
Fertiliser out
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Like I said, if people want to eat food grown in krap, good luck to them, but my survival group will be slinging it into the river (nature's sewage disposal system) to be carried away by the current.
In a post-apoc world where 99% of humans have been wiped out by a plague or whatever, we remaining survivors will be too few in number to contaminate or pollute anything.
My 'Doomsday Hall' group will have one survival rule only to stay alive, namely- "No rules in a knife fight"..:)
 
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Tidal said:
Like I said, if people want to eat food grown in krap, good luck to them, but my survival group will be slinging it into the river (nature's sewage disposal system) to be carried away by the current.
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do you have any experience with growing anything?

Tidal said:
In a post-apoc world where 99% of humans have been wiped out by a plague or whatever, we remaining survivors will be too few in number to contaminate or pollute anything.
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first, this is a homesteading thread, not the survival thread.
second, youre missing the point. why would you get rid of something very useful? thats straight up ignorance.
third, i think weve seen all of the images you have on your computer. about 3 times.
 
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polymoog said:
do you have any experience with growing anything?
this is a homesteading thread, not the survival thread.
second, youre missing the point. why would you get rid of something very useful? thats straight up ignorance.
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1- I'm not a gardener but i've seen how people do it on TV, they plant their seeds, water them, then eat the produce..:)






2- Homesteading in peacetime is fine, but it can quickly turn into a survival matter for us poor slobs in the cities when the taps run dry and the grocers shelves run empty tomorrow, welcome to the Apocalypse where the last people standing will be the farmers and homesteaders..:)

 
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Tidal said:
1- I'm not a gardener but i've seen how people do it on TV, they plant their seeds, water them, then eat the produce..:)






2- Homesteading in peacetime is fine, but it can quickly turn into a survival matter when the taps run dry and the grocers shelves run empty tomorrow, welcome to the Apocalypse where the last people standing will be the farmers and homesteaders..:)

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I want to get a greenhouse and grow a banana tree
 
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