# Sustainable agriculture **URL:** \ **Category:** mikroBIOMIK Workshop Wochenende @ Projekt Draussen\ **Created:** [October 7, 2019, 8:27am UTC](https://forum.hackteria.org/t/sustainable-agriculture/647 "2019-10-07T08:27:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![swantje](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.hackteria.org/swantje/32/677_2.png) [@swantje](https://forum.hackteria.org/u/swantje)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 8:27am UTC](https://forum.hackteria.org/t/sustainable-agriculture/647/1 "2019-10-07T08:27:25Z")
On my research on sustainable agriculture I found this great book by Annie Francé-Harrar, called „die letzte Chance für eine Zukunft ohne Not“ („the last chance for a future without adversity (?Right word?)“) > **[die-letzte-chance---pdf-6-2010.pdf](https://btq-bundesverband.de/assets/downloads/558d074b/die-letzte-chance---pdf-6-2010.pdf)** (in one sentence) This book is about the importance of humus for mankind – 700 pages long. It is written so beautifully and understandable, even though it is quite scientific. In my opinion it is definitly worth reading – even one or two chapters… She wrote it in 1957!!! Amazing!!! At the end of the book Annie F-H suggests to produce humus by collecting and transforming human feaces. I know that in the former DDR they put human feaces directly on the fields with the result that many people got very unpleasent worms in their guts. (@Julian: not the tiny, cute ones you see just under your microscope…). From the present point of view: would it make sence to produce humus by using human feaces? ---
**Author:** ![swantje](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.hackteria.org/swantje/32/677_2.png) [@swantje](https://forum.hackteria.org/u/swantje)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 8:32am UTC](https://forum.hackteria.org/t/sustainable-agriculture/647/2 "2019-10-07T08:32:45Z")
Maybe! [https://dycle.org/de](https://dycle.org/de) ---
**Author:** ![julian](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.hackteria.org/julian/32/132_2.png) [@julian](https://forum.hackteria.org/u/julian)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 9:24am UTC](https://forum.hackteria.org/t/sustainable-agriculture/647/3 "2019-10-07T09:24:13Z")
Ahoj Swantje, thanks for starting this thread. Annie Francé-Harrar “The Last Chance for a Future without Misery” (that sounds right for me) is even older - from 1950 - and should definitely have a permanent place in world literature. As far as I know it was never even translated. Anyone motivated to start? 😉 Concerning compost toilets, I would suggest these wiki-articles: - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composting\_toilet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composting_toilet) - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuse\_of\_excreta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuse_of_excreta) There are several companies selling compost toilets – e.g. [https://oeklo.at/](https://oeklo.at/) - I recently used this one at Ars Electronica. Quite a few festivals use them instead of the usual ToiToi/Dixi toilets, Boom-Festival is probably one of the biggest. I’ll read more into the pathogen problem… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![julian](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.hackteria.org/julian/32/132_2.png) [@julian](https://forum.hackteria.org/u/julian)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 9:35am UTC](https://forum.hackteria.org/t/sustainable-agriculture/647/4 "2019-10-07T09:35:34Z")
there’s a book about compost toilets - look at this guy 😜 ![KompostKloBuch](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/hackteria/original/1X/dfb6b46b44d51b015f191027a6b75bc823c7bc33.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![swantje](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.hackteria.org/swantje/32/677_2.png) [@swantje](https://forum.hackteria.org/u/swantje)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 10:53am UTC](https://forum.hackteria.org/t/sustainable-agriculture/647/5 "2019-10-07T10:53:32Z")
Whau! Thanks a lot for the links! Yes, I think the pathogen problem is the crusial point. Just asked at Öklo for more information … And you are oh so right! We need an english translation of the book! ---
**Author:** ![swantje](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.hackteria.org/swantje/32/677_2.png) [@swantje](https://forum.hackteria.org/u/swantje)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 10:54am UTC](https://forum.hackteria.org/t/sustainable-agriculture/647/6 "2019-10-07T10:54:29Z")
The toilet book is just great - especially the guy sitting in the dunes! ---
**Author:** ![swantje](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.hackteria.org/swantje/32/677_2.png) [@swantje](https://forum.hackteria.org/u/swantje)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 11:00am UTC](https://forum.hackteria.org/t/sustainable-agriculture/647/7 "2019-10-07T11:00:31Z")
Here a great book about Uwe Wüst, a very unkonventionell farmer using „Pflugloser Mischfruchtanbau“ (plowless mixed crop cultivation… something like that) … Almost the entire text in the book is one big interview with this farmer … and the fotos are beautiful!!! … > **[NEUES ESSEN No. 1](https://www.yumpu.com/kiosk/naturkraftwerke/neues-essen-no-1/56286667)** > > In diesem Buch geht es um Wesentliches: Eine ursprüngliche, erfinderische, hochgesunde, ertragreiche und zukunftweisende Anbauweise von ---
**Author:** ![julian](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.hackteria.org/julian/32/132_2.png) [@julian](https://forum.hackteria.org/u/julian)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2019, 9:21am UTC](https://forum.hackteria.org/t/sustainable-agriculture/647/8 "2019-10-12T09:21:09Z")
> **[No-till farming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-till_farming)** > > No-till farming (also called zero tillage or direct drilling) is a way of growing crops or pasture from year to year without disturbing the soil through tillage. No-till is an agricultural technique that increases the amount of water that infiltrates into the soil, the soil's retention of organic matter and its cycling of nutrients. In many agricultural regions, it can reduce or eliminate soil erosion. It increases the amount and variety of life in and on the soil, including disease-causing ... ---
**Author:** ![swantje](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.hackteria.org/swantje/32/677_2.png) [@swantje](https://forum.hackteria.org/u/swantje)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.hackteria.org/t/sustainable-agriculture/647/9 "2019-10-19T15:46:06Z")
hat sounds really interesting - and it exists for so long!, though it does not seem very “organic” since they say you need more fertiliser since you do not plow and therefore have a weed problem… I have to ask how Uwe Wüst deals with the weed…