Mark Nelson PhD

The Wastewater Gardener is Mark Nelson's journey into the world of sewage treatment or shit management, whichever floats your boat. As part of the Biosphere 2 team, he helped to develop a water treatment and recycling system using plants that are normally part of a wetland. Wetlands are already efficient treatment systems that are capable of filtering out everything up to heavy metals. Some plants from the wastewater garden can even be harvested for food. Using and building upon this idea, Mark has brought wastewater garden systems to areas throughout the world.

A highly important ecological issue that no one wants to talk about is human waste management, but it is increasingly important today since it directly ties into water quality and water usage as well as habitat destruction and food availability. Using down to earth methods and humor, The Wastewater Gardener offers a much better solution to our human waste issues. I was really interested in Mark's time spent in the Biosphere as well as his practical applications of the wastewater garden and the plants he used within them. I live in a cooler climate and most of the examples were in warmer climates; however there were examples of wastewater gardens placed in Poland and France that would be more similar to my climate. Hopefully we will use Mark's insights to be more mindful of our human waste issue.

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