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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the wood badge in Homesteading.

In this Badge Bit you willmake a large Jean Pain compost system (10+ cubic yards)!

Combustion-Free Hot Water at the Whole Systems Research Farm


To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must provide proof of the following as pictures or a video (< 2 mins):
- the supplies you're starting with
- the base layer of tubing in place
- part way through the build
- the finished Jean Pain composting system (10+ cu yards)
- Measure hot water from the jean pain pile at a temperature of at least 130 degrees F once a week for eight weeks and drops no lower than 110 degrees for 3 minutes at 1.5gpm
- Must have at least three spots where people can add urine
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My husband and I just watched this video again. I cannot wait to make one of these as soon as we have a new place of our own.  It is one of the first things on my to do list.

If you have never heard of Jean Pain, he was a Frenchman who was a very original thinker and inventor/refiner of basic low tech systems.  You can find out more in the booklet produced by his wife, Ida Pain, called  Another Kind of Garden which is about the Jean Pain Method for composting mainly brush waste wood for hot water production (as per the PEP badge above).

There's also a good write up on his work here:

the jean pain way
 
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