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How to use the Willow Feeder:
1. Pee Outside (on one side of a nutrient-loving plant), if you're able. Unsure about this? See the back.
• If you've never tried, or you're uncertain, give it a try!
2. Poop in the "toilet." (It's not a flush toilet, but see how it looking familiar helps with a new way of doing things?)
• If you didn't Pee Outside, pee into the urine diverter. It's the mesh-covered cup looking thing in front of you when you're sitting.
• Definitely don't poop in the urine diverter.
3. Toilet paper goes where poop went. (Assuming you didn't miss)
4. Add a flat scoop of woody bits to where poop went, atop your poop if you're talented. (Be talented)
5. CLOSE THE LID! (This is vital for smell control and fly control)
How does a Willow Feeder work?
Briefly, by separating nutrient streams (pee and poop) making both more manageable in the separation; then poop is stored, reducing the potential harm, and eventually returned to the soil.
1. Separate the pee from the poop to control the smell, and to put pee to immediate use in the soil.
2. Add sawdust to the poop to further control the smell and begin turning the poop into poop jerky.
• Clever tech controls the flies and the smell further.
3. Haul away the bucket when full, and store securely for 2-3 years so the harmful pathogens in the poop die, die, die, creating poop jerky.
4. The resulting poop jerky is called 'Willow Candy.' After 2-3 years, spread it next to a willow, poplar, or other non-food nutrient loving tree to safely return the nutrients to the soil, and close the resource loop.
How to pee outside?
If peeing outside is new or uncertain for you, here are some things that may help:
Permission: You are encouraged to pee outside here! Go, be free, pee!
• Soil buddies love pee! Pee to one side of a big healthy tree or plant. That way trees have pee added to their soil buffet.
Not as gross as we were taught:
• Pee is effectively sterile. Any pathogen that might live in pee (and this, from a Very Sick person) will die in less than 10 seconds outside the body. It's when mixed with poop that pee becomes so icky.
Technique:
• If peeing outside is tricky for you, consider using one of the pee funnels available here in the willow feeder. Sometimes called she-wees! Note the 'sterilized' and 'dirty' buckets.
Moon Times
If your body bleeds monthly (or more! or less!), then this part is just for you. Nobody else is allowed in.
- Menstrual Cups: Blood may be emptied in the sink or where poop goes. Spray spritz is available, and the cleaning rinse can also go where poop goes.
- Reusable Underwear, Pads, Tampons: These can be rinsed in the sink.
- Compostable Pads, Tampons: May go where poop goes. (Only compostable; like Natracare, 7th Generation, Wool, Cattail, etc)
- Commercial Pads, Tampons: Place in a wax paper bag available in the willow feeder, and dispose in a can marked "landfill."
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