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A Straw Bale Urinal

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Composting, Gardening, Humanure, Straw Bale Gardening
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...ug-in straw bale urinal. The device comes as a flat polypropylene sheet, which is folded into shape and slotted together, then threaded on a looping band around the bale, its funnel wedged deep into the centre of the straw to channel the fluid to the composting core. A deluxe version is also available in stainless steel – presumably for the VIP bale urinal area. According to the article, Faltazi’s straw bale urinal will debut this summer at the Fr...

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Initial Thoughts on the Age of Limits 2013 Conference

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Age of Limits, Thoughtstylings
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...urning red and the zombies are crawling the streets, I’m still going to be composting and working in my garden and trying to share what I know with whoever wants to learn and doing whatever I can to help my neighbors because that’s how I want to live, and I don’t intend to let a little thing like an apocalypse turn me into an #$#%#*&. In the coming days we’re going to be looking at the following concepts: The apocalypse meme The paralysis of doom...

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Mutant Squash

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Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
Today’s incredible picture comes from photographer, bike cultist, and composting Culver-Town revolutionary Elon Schoenholz. It’s a freak squash that grew out of his regular old household compost. The funny thing is that nobody at the Shoenholz Compound – neither Elon, wife Bryn nor new bambina Nusia eat squash – so the origin of this new hybrid compost squash is a mystery. This brings up a bit of botany. Plants “do the deed” with flowers which co...

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The Green Cone

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Composting
...s you shouldn’t put meat products in compost piles check out the excellent composting safety tips found at the Colorado State University Cooperative Extension. The Green Cone could work as a good solution for folks who don’t have much of a garden, have access to a small bit of soil, and want to lesson the amount of waste going to the landfill. The key thing will be to see how well the waste dissolves, since most septic systems have to be pumped ou...

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