That’s 60% of global ammonium nitrate production, just in time for planting season. Someone better at the economy than me tell me what this means for food prices… :biden-fall:
That’s 60% of global ammonium nitrate production, just in time for planting season. Someone better at the economy than me tell me what this means for food prices… :biden-fall:
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During WW2, the cringly named "Freedom Farms" at their peak produced half of all the vegetables in the United States. Just remember that you can grow a significant portion of your veggies for yourself in a relatively short time frame
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If you can, try to avoid using peat. It's very damaging to the environment to dig it up to sell
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Coco coir is a good alternative but make sure to sanitize it before using!
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Only acceptable use of peat is whiskey
similar to the Uk's dig for victory program
Most importantly... your poop
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Ooh yeah high temperature composting is a very cool technology. Seems difficult to dial in to keep safe and consistent. It’s something I’d like to get into if I had more than one life to live. Such a compelling process engineering challenge!
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Using alcohol to make "pickled people poop" actually would be a way to make human feces safer to add to a back yard compost.
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For this scenario, it doesn't matter. All you're wanting is to reduce the e.coli and parasite load in human feces to make it safer to handle during composting. You can make alcohol from wood chips if you wanted, but if you're trying to do this entirely on your own its a process. If you were living in a more communal setting though, it would be easier to do.
The "time efficient" thing can be a bit sticky and kinda gets me too when I think about composting toilets out at the farm.
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Yeah, trying to compost human waste in small scale, quickly and safely, to use on food crops is something that takes a bit of fore though and planning. And I'd bet it would always be a bit weird when guests came over.
For small scale stuff... It seems easier to just have animals turning grass into poop where the parasites shared between people and the animal are fewer so I can just shovel the poop into piles mixed with grass and just poke at it every few days.