Tractor compost toilet

26th Nov 2017

TRACTOR TOILET : The toilet has been built and placed over a 1m cubed hole. Pee, poo and toilet paper will go directly into the ground – and stay there! There will be no more moving humanure from one place to another. (Sadly for Rob Durand and Franny Jones who have been the true stars in that area in the last few years!).

We predict the hole will take about 7-8 months to fill up, at which point we will have a new hole ready and will move the toilet. This toilet will move around terrace 3 for the next 18 months.. and then?

The plastic chimney will take smells up and away (as long as we leave the seat closed!) and we can poo here.. and in theory pee as well.

In the first photo from the original design meeting in May 2017 you can see that I am the toilet, Rob is a bush.. beginning with W (I’ll have to find out which bush we’re supposed to plant before the toilet hole fills up!). Edu represents a very happy, well fed fruit tree living near, but not too near, the humanure.

3rd Nov 2020

The last photos show the bumper tomato crop growing in a half-filled poo hole from 2019. You can also see the the apple tree we planted, following our design! But still no bush.