The Schankman Cometh

paul, your such a tease

LOL . . . I've seen some of these villages on other shows, some are really NASTY and made me gag!

Sorry, but I had to use an outhouse for quite a few of my younger years (no odor eliminator back then) and I don't plan on doing that again. So, I can answer right away, nope. I'll do what I can to recycle, use the special energy reduction bulbs, but not going to any outhouses!

Rosie, I know many who live in nursing homes and residential care facilities . . . the cheapest is $1,700 per month for a closet sized room. Even worse, the thermostat is in the neighbor's room, so this poor woman is always suffocating from the heat and sleeps with her window open and with a fan blowing to get the temp down, even in winter.

sounds good to me.

Gonna take Paul's advice and wait. Still remember the smell of outhouses. So . . . . .

You'd better be good with composting to deal with human waste. If you don't have the pile hot enough (pun unavoidable), you're just creating a cootie breeding ground. However, doing it correctly, you've got some super compost. Which isn't so whacky if you think of what farmers do with cow and chicken poop/litter.

The worm thing would have to be quite an operation with a 'village'. You're not talking about only one single family. And since the climate here isn't temperate, you'd have to create a living space for the worms where they wouldn't freeze. What would you create? A large 'heated community worm barn'? Because I seriously doubt people would want to live with individual worm bins INSIDE of their homes that are specifically dealing with poop. Food scraps, okay. Poop? Uhhh, I doubt it.

I know of a few people who do worms back home in CA. Small setups in their garages to deal with food scraps. You end up with worm castings which are the bomb for the soil. But their garages don't go below freezing and they certainly wouldn't do poop!