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the connection between toxic gick and willow feeders

 
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In another thread, I was asked

why do you conflate the willow feeder Kickstarter with the toxin reduction thing?



(I confess that I had to look up "conflate" ...)

When you are fully disconnected from a sewage treatment plant and/or a septic tank, then you are using a willow feeder and mulch pit.  

Water, pee and a bunch of stuff goes to the mulch pit.  Poop goes to the willow feeder and eventually to a willow tree.

This whole system has a lot of growies.  Lots of willow trees and a bunch of other plants too.  Any toxins anywhere in this sytem will kill the growies.  At the same time, we want to be good at this and observe that we are truly great at this.  So we want our growies to be ridiculously happy.

Any toxins in the system are contrary to our goals.  

As long as you are using a sewage treatment plant (or septic tank) you can build your skills.  A bonus effect of building these skills is that it will profoundly clean our rivers and oceans.  Not as much as the full willow feeder system will (which sends nothing to any water), but still quite good.

I want people to understand the willow feeder dealio.  Once the understand it, then, I hope they will shift their life to something much less toxic so they will be better able to make the leap some day.

https://permies.com/wiki/287110/Cleaning-Rivers-Oceans-Home-willow

 
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