The Humanure Handbook: A Guide To Composting Human Manure

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Edition: Paperback
Pages: 7"x9", 300 pages
ISBN: 0-9644258-9-0
Book Details: b&w photographs and illustrations, appendices, glossary, index

By Joseph Jenkins

Now in dozens of countries worldwide
Amazon.com category #1 best seller
COMMENTS FROM READERS AND REVIEWERS:
"World-shaking."
"The perfect self-published book."
"One book that could save the world."
"Almost certain to become a classic in its field."
"One of the most important books ever written."
"Should be required reading for everyone on the planet."
"You have answered questions I have held open since childhood."
"After reading this book,
you will never flush a toilet with indifference again."
"Answers every question anyone could have about
managing a compost toilet and compost pile."
 
Humanure: waste or resource? Joseph Jenkins boldly steps where no author has gone before. Considered by many a "moving" book, The Humanure Handbook will surprise you with its timely relevance, delight you with its humor, and impress you with its thorough research. Brilliantly simple, profoundly mundane, this is one book you will never forget. Full of "eye-candy" illustrations, practical information, history, philosophy, and science, it addresses an issue relevant to each and every human being on Planet Earth.

from the book :

The Human Nutrient Cycle is an endless natural cycle. In order to keep the cycle intact, food for humans must be grown on soil that is enriched by the continuous addition of organic materials recycled by humans, such as humanure, food scraps, and agricultural residues. By respecting this cycle of nature, humans can maintain the fertility of their agricultural soils indefinitely, instead of depleting them of nutrients, as is common today.

Food-producing soils must be left more fertile after each harvest due to the ever-increasing human population and the need to produce more food with each passing year.

This book will forever change the way you view and think about the supposedly hygienic modern toilet. It will also outline the different ways (many of them very simple do-it-yourself-systems) that you can recycle greywater from your kitchen sink, shower, and more, thereby enriching your garden with an otherwise valuable resource that routinely gets dumped in septic tanks or our rivers and oceans, even in drought regions.

Don't cheat your soil of valuable nutrients, don't pollute earth's waterways, don't waste gallons of drinking water with every little urge. Prior to the publication of this book, the foregoing little eco-voice in your head might put you in quite a dilemma as you wouldn't know how not to do any of these things. However, with the advent of this book, you no longer need to feel bad about defecating in drinking water and flushing the resulting "soup" down the drain! In this book, the little-known secret of how to put your feces to work for you and your garden is revealed.

Humanure composting is simple, hygienic, intuitive, rewarding, responsible, addictive, fun, and so much more. Makes for great dinner talk with visitors to your house too, especially when it dawns on them they are eating great-tasting food grown on humanure. Lively dinner conversation piece, sure to break the ice with even the most timid of guests. In your neighborhood, the news that you are a practitioner and not just a proponent of humanure composting will spread like wildfire. You'll be a local celebrity. Highly recommended. Truly a must-read. Informative, irreverent, compelling. It will put the urge in you to return your "bits" to nature every time she calls. All rawfoodists should own one! Read more on the practice of humanure composting in Raw For Life e-zine.

About the Author:

Joseph Jenkins lives with his wife, Jeanine, and several children, in western Pennsylvania on their 17 acre wooded homesite. He is an organic gardener, maintains an orchard, berries, a flock of chickens and some ducks. He began self-publishing books in 1995. Since then, he has produced three titles: The Humanure Handbook (first edition, 1995 and second edition 1999), The Slate Roof Bible (first edition 1997, second edition 2003), and Balance Point (2000).

The Humanure Handbook has been recognized at the Three Rivers Environmental Awards, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards, Benjamin Franklin Awards, and Independent Publisher Outstanding Book of the Year Awards.