So I went ahead and had a septic tank and leach field installed but still use my bucket/sawdust toilet whenever possible(except I use grass clippings primarily). I keep a compost heap active uphill from one of my breadfruit trees and it seems to keep the trees happy. I employ enough clean cover materials that the waste is never exposed and I don't worry about the temperature in the pile. I don't dig into or manipulate the pile for anything since it is already where it is doing good, adjacent to the trees. Years go by before anybody would touch the materials that were formerly humanure.
I know E. coli outbreaks are sometimes linked to human waste in farm fields but when used in this fashion I believe that the chain of infection is effectively broken.
Buckets and grass clippings are cheap. The septic tank and leach field were expensive but now I have the ultimate in plausible deniability should the county come sniffing around, plus somewhere for sissies to go if they don't like to use the bucket.
I get 15' of rain a year so I happily use fresh water to flush. It would be going out the overflow otherwise.
I know E. coli outbreaks are sometimes linked to human waste in farm fields but when used in this fashion I believe that the chain of infection is effectively broken.
Buckets and grass clippings are cheap. The septic tank and leach field were expensive but now I have the ultimate in plausible deniability should the county come sniffing around, plus somewhere for sissies to go if they don't like to use the bucket.
I get 15' of rain a year so I happily use fresh water to flush. It would be going out the overflow otherwise.