Jan Rasenberg is eagerly waiting for a good load of Brabant stools on Saturday morning. Together with the Rondgang Foundation, he made an appeal: people, bring your poo and pee to my manure cellar. It became an anticlimax: no one heeded his poo call. And that’s shit, because it’s much better for the environment.
Dairy farmer Jan Rasenberg lives on a nature farm in Hooge Zwaluwe, together with 140 cows, 150 sheep, 130 young cattle and a lot of poop. Without sewer. If the best farmer does a number 2 himself, it simply ends up in the manure pit. “That used to be quite normal, but for us it still is. It’s not that I do that especially for this action.”
“Collecting poop in a manure pit is still very normal for me.”
But the manure cellar does not overflow, after the call of the initiative Poo sandwich† It is eerily quiet at the farm. In fact: there is no turd to experience. Nobody, really nobody, has come to drop off his Saturday bams in a steaming Tupperware box in Hooge Zwaluwe.
Rasenberg remains realistic under it. “The call is mainly a playful action, you know. Maybe just too few people know about it,” he says. “And it is also a busy day today. After all, it is also mill day.”
“You could just use human manure as a fertilizer substitute.”
With his participation in the poop initiative, he mainly wants to make people aware of the fact that they break a circle by not recycling their feces. “People eat our products and their bodies process them into poop and pee. But then nothing happens to it,” he explains. “You could simply use human manure as a substitute for fertilizer. That is much better for the environment.”
In any case, it will not be a weekly initiative. So if your coffee has run out by now: unfortunately the promotion is over.