Bokashi composting

[chiefjason]

Anyone doing this? Just ordered a kit to start. Should be here Thursday. Found it watching Japanese TV, NHK World. They have been pushing composting lately and couldn't figure out how they were doing it. Pretty different than what I'm use too. It's smaller scale than outdoor composting, but you can compost more stuff.


Bokashi composting—because it's actually reliant on fermentation— can include more types of food-waste material than composting systems you might be familiar with. In addition to the typical fruit and veggie scraps, you can throw bones, meat, fat, and dairy products into the bokashi bucket.

Bokashi Composting: Step-by-Step Guide

A practical step-by-step guide to begin bokashi composting at home, including materials, tools, and detailed instructions.

www.treehugger.com

 

[kcult]

I have been collecting our food scraps and storing them in the fridge. About once a week, I'll give them to my Dad.

He pours the contents into a pit bull named Jack. Jack processes the scraps into piles of fertilizer that are strategically placed around the yard.

 

[Lafayette Gregory]

Sounds like a lot of work to me. Just like the Japanese to make something easy into a complicated and involved process. And in the end ya gotta put everything in a compost pile anyway. Benefit- helps release nitrogen into the soil- Yep- my compost does the same thing without all the equipment time and effort. As to fermentation- I will stick to making Kimchi and that clear liquid we all love.

 

[Gator]

I have been collecting our food scraps and storing them in the fridge. About once a week, I'll give them to my Dad.

He pours the contents into a pit bull named Jack. Jack processes the scraps into piles of fertilizer that are strategically placed around the yard.

I tell my wife every time our dog poops that she's adding much needed organic material to the yard. She thinks I'm making a joke.

.

 

[noway2]

I tell my wife every time our dog poops that she's adding much needed organic material to the yard. She thinks I'm making a joke.

.

Instead of mowing, the neighbor lets her horses pasture in the yard. The grass is a very vibrant green.

 

[DrScaryGuy]

wife ordered us one of these bins from amazon

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08H1XG2TZ

probably dumped 30 or 40 gallon bags of kitchen waste into one side of that thing, it's still empty. not quite sure how decomposing works...

 

[kcult]

I tell my wife every time our dog poops that she's adding much needed organic material to the yard. She thinks I'm making a joke.

.

"The grass is always greener where the dogs are shitting, oh yeah."

-Chris Cornell

 

[chiefjason]

I have been collecting our food scraps and storing them in the fridge. About once a week, I'll give them to my Dad.

He pours the contents into a pit bull named Jack. Jack processes the scraps into piles of fertilizer that are strategically placed around the yard.

Got a cattle dog that does some of that too. He eats anything.

Sounds like a lot of work to me. Just like the Japanese to make something easy into a complicated and involved process. And in the end ya gotta put everything in a compost pile anyway. Benefit- helps release nitrogen into the soil- Yep- my compost does the same thing without all the equipment time and effort. As to fermentation- I will stick to making Kimchi and that clear liquid we all love.

Some of it's about space. They tend to not have large outdoor spots to compost. We have an outdoor bin but it just does not ever work the way we want it too.

wife ordered us one of these bins from amazon

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08H1XG2TZ

probably dumped 30 or 40 gallon bags of kitchen waste into one side of that thing, it's still empty. not quite sure how decomposing works...

We use a trash can and have a compost pile for large stuff. We also have a Vitamix food cycler but it has limitation in what you can use in it. Guess we will know in a few weeks.

 

[noway2]

Bokashi composting—because it's actually reliant on fermentation— can include more types of food-waste material than composting systems you might be familiar with. In addition to the typical fruit and veggie scraps, you can throw bones, meat, fat, and dairy products into the bokashi bucket.

That actually is a pretty interesting idea. One of the things I have learned is that the microbial content of the soil plays a large part in the health of your plants and the bounty of fruits and vegetables they produce. By fermenting the waste and putting that on the garden, you will be greatly enhancing the microbial content. You will sill have material to physically compost, but it should also degrade quicker.

If you have room, and almost everybody should, a few backyard chickens are also excellent at making composted dirt that is very nutrient rich. Let them have deep litter, especially on dirt, and they will stir it up good while crapping in it too.

 

[chiefjason]

That actually is a pretty interesting idea. One of the things I have learned is that the microbial content of the soil plays a large part in the health of your plants and the bounty of fruits and vegetables they produce. By fermenting the waste and putting that on the garden, you will be greatly enhancing the microbial content. You will sill have material to physically compost, but it should also degrade quicker.

If you have room, and almost everybody should, a few backyard chickens are also excellent at making composted dirt that is very nutrient rich. Let them have deep litter, especially on dirt, and they will stir it up good while crapping in it too.

Wish we could have chickens but the city shut that down years ago. Hickory you can have them. Longview you can't. Just dumb.