Liberty Festival... a festival for freedom of expression. The goal is to have fun and if you wish, experience transfomation from a community minded point of view.
What a nice break it's been. It was hot and the horse flies enjoyed all the fresh human blood from the 100 or so people at Liberty Festival (the mosquitos also had their feast), but there was a lake all to ourselves and we spent most of our time in the water!
We were invited to help build composting toilets. The festival aims to have a minimal carbon footprint and a Do it Yourself with available material attotude... my kind of game!
When we got to the festival grounds, someone had dug 5ft trenches near the two camping areas.
Once the holes were dug, we set out to build a frame for the seats of the toilets out of scrap wood they had from the previous year. You will see later how we filled in the gaps once we ran out of dimentional material (plywood and lumber).
So basically these toilets were simple boxes built over a trench like an old school outhouse or latrine. Not quite what I had in mind when we talked about composting toilets, but I was interested to experience how this technique works in a festival setting.
And I guess over time, once filled back in, it will compost...
Here's a look at what the finished product looked like:
The gaps I was telling you about earlier were filled with random sticks and moss was stuffed anywhere there was a hole to block any potential smells from coming out.
And that's all for our Woodsy Composting Toilets, as they were called. Towards the end of the week they started smelling a bit, not nearly as much as the typical plastic prta-loos do but they were definitely an improvement.
I have seen proper Compost Toilets at festivals accross europe and they were amazing. All you can smell is the saw dust used to cover your tracks! When these thinhs are done right, they are really really nice.
Liberty is a growing festival where learning from trial and error is part of the process! We will be going back for sure. The connections we made there are forged and we want to play our part year after year. We had so much fun!!!
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