Closing the nutrient loop is a long - terminal figure goal of mine .
At our old seat in the Caribbean , I built cabins from scratch and was able to do some pretty impressing things with regenerate the waste and the water system that came through the house .
All the kitchen scraps were recycled into compost , as well as all the human waste product . That ’s veracious : we had a composting jakes system of rules and a three - bin concrete compost envelopment that did a great line of composting EVERYTHING !
The urine from the kitchen also flowed back into the land , watering an island of edible plants . This is me installing the grey piddle processing field beside one of the cabins . That ’s a Gros Michel banana pup I ’m plant . It grow fantastically with the urine from the household .
Yet now we are in a different situation . Like most American homes , the place where we presently lease has all of the grey water and the black water from the toilets running into a infected tank . In the city , it would all run into a sewer . That imply that mostly clear water from the shower and the toilet pee melt down into the same place . You do n’t get the piddle for your crops , and you do n’t get the potential soil fertility of composted humanure and piddle either .
As always , we still compost all our kitchen permissive waste . We also shred paper and cardboard and compost it . Still , lost water by , there ’s a more serious nutrient gap in the system .
Fortunately , we have been able to partially occupy that disruption with brute manure .
I also have some program to use the chickens intensively on the garden , but you ’ll have to wait for an approaching video to see how we do that .
mighty now , the Gallus gallus are mostly just making a mess of the mulch I put down in the Grocery Row Gardens .
It ’s playfulness to look out them . I ca n’t tolerate the bird through the garden at other times of the year , though , as they tear everything to while and put down all my transplants .
We ’ve found it works better to have their scratching and turn hold back to a set run or beneath a Gallus gallus tractor . Then we get lots of compost without drop off our cabbages and mulch .
My daughter tested her courage by face down our Orpington rooster , who has been known to assail slight mass :
He backed off , but then result the hens into the hemangioma simplex patch , where they start pluck up the plant .
At that point , my daughter boldly rescued the strawberries by chasing the obstinate birds into the words gardens .
If you have a small yard , the chickens can really be a lot of trouble . They ’ll make a mess of your porch and will deplume up all your mulched areas .
My new estimation is going to work much better . Just wait ! I will share it soon .
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