Ukraine to experiment with composting its war dead
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Green burials are not deep. If they were, then the "nutrients" would be too far below-ground to be of use to plants. Oftentimes, green burial grounds will put a rock on top of the burial site, the purpose being to keep animals from digging up the corpse.
Human urine, however, is not ok for food plants unless it was sterilized to kill pathogens.
Eggshells are fine for compost.
Rabbits and chickens are herbivores, so their manure is perfectly acceptable in a compost pile, along with horse and cow manure. Native Americans placed fish in holes and then planted corn. All perfectly fine.
I bury the heads and feet of my butchered animals, we go a couple feet deep, that is it. A stone is placed but we plant around it. I plant deep rooted plants near shallow rooted plants. The deep rooted plants like comfrey pull up nutrients other plants can't reach and deposit them for the other plants. It's an entire ecosystem that works. There is a method to organic gardening and you are stopping at surface statements without any understanding of the how or why. This is the problem with getting your education from google instead of experience. Your statement on human urine is enough to show it. You think people are collecting urine from strangers to put in their garden? If you want to ever survive hard times, you better be aware of how to use human urine in your garden if you want to eat. And no one composts rabbit manure, it's a cold manure that goes right into the garden. We don't compost it. Horse and cow manure are actually our biggest threat right now due to aminopyralids which have been wrecking gardens all over the nation and Europe right now, and if you knew anything about gardening and homesteading you would know this. I've been strictly avoiding it the past 3 years now along with all forms of straw and hay unless i find a source I can trust. I have to make all my own compost to protect my soil.