Composting Memories from MOTHER: Project Privy
By the MOTHER EARTH NEWS editors, January/February 1984
Readers, to mark our 50th anniversary as a magazine, we’ll be reprinting some of the more colorful stories from our archives in upcoming issues. Have you built your own ingenious compost toilet? Tell us about it at Letters@MOTHEREARTHNEWS.com. — MOTHER
What’s the best alternative available to the growing number of environmentally minded folks who are hunting for a convenient, economical way to dispose of human waste? That’s the question Eco-Village staffer Jay Herndon asked when he assigned himself to Project Privy.
Herndon saw almost immediately that the sensible choice
