The Off-Grid Way to Deal with SH*T: Turn a Liability Into an Asset

Everybody has to shit, but in our culture and economy, human waste is nothing but a liability and potential health hazard. And what’s crazier is that we mix it with our drinking water and create an even bigger problem.

Well, at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, we don’t have elaborate plumbing and water systems to cart all our human waste away to be treated in a plant or dumped directly into the local river or ocean. We keep all our human waste on site, where it becomes a benign yet beneficial resource for agriculture. We not only save millions in infrastructure expenses, but we save water, we don’t pollute our drinking water, and we end up with a valuable soil amendment.

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Easiest Organic Control Of Cabbage Loopers and How Monsanto is Making it Ineffective On Corn

If you doubt this problem with BT GMO crops, check out this article
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/carey-gillam/new-research-shows-failin_b_14003604.html
that references a research paper on Bt resistance in corn earworm. Granted this is a different crop and a different pest, but the mechanism is the same–the Cry proteins that eat up the intestines the larval stage of insects. Larvae becoming resistant to Cry proteins will make BT ineffective as pest control in corn, and will make use of BT on organic corn crops ineffective as well. The resistance in the GM crops is the result of conventional farmers not keeping a portion of their fields in non BT corn, and to be a haven for corn earworms without resistance to BT to survive and pass on their genes. If all the corn is BT the next generations will consist only of BT resistant earworms.

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Simple Wastewater Treatment for Off-grid Water System

When I got back from being away for the winter I found that my water pump was no longer able to pump water out of my cistern. In my house, I drink and use rainwater caught off my gutters and stored in an 1100 gallon cistern underground. In this video, I try to figure out why I’m not getting any water. Was it the -18°F temps over the winter or something else that caused the problem?

My Devastated Garden and Summoning My Inner Elmer Fudd

Despite the fact that I live in a place called Dancing Rabbit, I find rabbits to be the worst pest we have in our area. Without a fence around your garden and good protective cages around your fruit trees, you don’t stand a chance of growing your own food. In the last couple of years I’ve had a lot of trouble keeping rabbits out of my garden because my fence was less than reliable. This season my goal was to get some real fencing in my garden and finally make my garden rabbit free. Here’s why, with the help of Home Depot, I failed.

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