Compost Loo Building Day

This one day Meitheal will give us the opportunity to share our sustainable living and permaculture skills and knowledge, and learn the basic steps and the nuts and bolts of how to design, build and manage our own back garden outdoor composting toilet, which are waste-free toilets that rely on the biological process of composting to recycle toilet material, and produce humanure.

Compost toilets can simply consist of a five-gallon bucket covered by a hinged box. Toilet instructions are simple. From this point, composting human waste (humanure) is safe and easy. However, there are a variety of ways to make a humanure toilet, over the day we aim to explore this together and build 2 outdoor structures for our community compost toilets. The humanure process involves a compost toilet, a compost bin and cover material.

By exploring the steps together on how to make, use, and manage compost toilets, we will show how easy it is for everyone to set up a compost loo in their home, garden, allotment, forest school sites or community areas.

Recycling our humanure, food and other organic waste into compost provides a range of environmental benefits, including improving soil health, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, recycling nutrients, reducing water wastage and mitigating the impact of droughts.

Although most of the world's humanure is currently quickly flushed down a drain, or discarded into the environment as a pollutant, as permaculturists, we know it instead as a rich natural resource that can be converted, through composting, into lush vegetative growth, and used to feed humanity.

For more information on Humanure and Making a Compost Toilet visit - https://humanurehandbook.com/instructions.html#:~:text=Compost%20being%20dug%20from%20a,An%20error%20occurred.&text=The%20purposes%20for%20composting%20humanure,the%20purpose%20of%20growing%20food.

Please see here an article on how compost toilets can offer a solution to our global sanitation crisis!  https://www.borgenmagazine.com/compost-toilets/

This Hands On Workshop will give you :

• ​Understanding of the benefits, health and hygiene related to compost toilets
• Design options for constructing outdoor compost toilets
• Knowledge of practicalities with using a compost toilet

The course will entail hands on making of compost loos on site at the Slieve Aughty Centre, so please dress appropriately for outdoor activities. The Workshop is suitable for anyone wishing to join us for our upcoming permaculture gathering and anyone wishing to build their own compost loo in their back garden, school or project site. 

IMPORTANT INFO: PLEASE BRING TOOLS! HAMMERS, NAILS, SAWS, ANYTHING ELSE YOU THINK MIGHT BE REQUIRED.

In preparation for this year's All Ireland Permaculture Gathering (AIPG) at the Slieve Aughty Centre in Co. Galway on 24-25th August, 2024 we are delighted to gather with a number of volunteers in advance of the event on August 21st - 23rd to prepare for the weekends events and invite you to join us for our Seed Camp Meitheal, taking place over these 3 days.. Everyone is welcome to come along and to help us to build our camp, gather energy and ideas and co create resources and materials needed for our upcoming All Island Gathering! To reserve your place on this Seed Camp Meitheal Click Here.

For tickets to the AIPG please visit https://permaculture.ie

For any queries or to volunteer for any aspect of this years Gathering - please email us.