Re-Alliance Webinar | Treebogs: integrating compost toilets, tree planting and soil building
Showcasing the Treebog: a compost toilet which, when built and planted around with trees, bushes and vines, creates biomass resources from the washing water and the plant nutrients found in the toilet "wastes".
Treebogs are an example and an expression of Permaculture Design which can be self-built using local materials and trees.
Hosting this webinar is Jay Abrahams, who built the first Treebog in 1992, and co-presenting will be Elke Carpus, who is a representative of Jiwnit from Kamyaak Village, in Senegal, where the first two Treebogs in Africa were built in October 2019.
The Treebog was developed by Jay for his own and his family’s use, in their ‘off-grid’ cottage in Herefordshire, England. Since then many hundreds of Treebogs have been built in the UK.
Other Treebogs have also been created in Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Israel, Palestine, and Nepal, and now also in Senegal - each have been planted with trees native to the region in which they are located.
In Kamyaak Village in Senegal, each of the double-cubicle Treebogs is used by around 35 people living in the compounds there. Each of the Treebogs were planted with 25 fruit, nut, pole-wood, medicinal and fodder trees.
Among these trees was a Papaya tree sapling, which when planted in 2019 was only 6 inches tall. Eighteen months later, it was 15 feet tall and had produced its first papaya fruit!