2.2 Backed Up Like an Alabama Sh*t Train

This episode takes us on a brief global history of biochar and poop. Listen and find out what sewage history has to do with warfare, early globalization, organic certification, and beer. iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/farm-to-taber/id1418015843?mt=2 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/farm-to-taber-podcast RSS subscribe: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:432549147/sounds.rss Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5610560 Donate: https://paypal.me/farmtotaber Twitter: https://twitter.com/farmtotaberpod?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarmToTaber/ Sources: Alabama Shit Train: “A ‘poop train’ from New York befouled a small Alabama town, until the town fought back.” Erin Shaw Street, Washington Post, 20 April 2018 England and China handled human waste very differently: Dean Ferguson, “Nightsoil and the ‘Great Divergence’: human waste, the urban economy, and economic productivity, 1500-1900” in Journal of Global History, 2014, 9(3):379-402 Justus von Liebig quote about England being a “vampire upon the breast of Europe” Coprolite mining http://www.bedfordshiregeologygroup.org.uk/leaflets/BLGGCoprolites.pdf Terra preta & what it’s made of: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2311424/ Beer history/IPA made possible by coke (basically biochar made from coal): Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature 1893 Guano islands off of Peru: https://www.audubon.org/news/holy-crap-trip-worlds-largest-guano-producing-islands