TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Intro 1:44 - 5 Benefits of Bokashi 3:09 - Building and Filling a Bokashi Bin 8:11 - Checking Up on Bin 9:09 - Adding to Soil 10:55 - 1 Month Checkup
How can I take care of the bokashi if I live in an apartment and in an area that gets way below freezing temps in the winter? I looked online and people say to store the fermented contents outside in another airtight bucket, but what if I don’t have much room around me to do that? Also, I live where temperatures fluctuate a lot because of wind, and in the summer gets to around 100 degrees (WA state)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like you could have gotten two circles out of that towel (4:45). Feels a bit wasteful, even if it's an old one that would have gone in the trash otherwise.
I live in the Northeast and have used bokashi to ferment my kitchen scraps all winter long. When my bucket got full, I would let it ferment for two weeks and then bury it in a raised bed in my garden. Now that it's spring, I'm looking forward to top dressing my garden with this awesome soil. I find the breakdown was much faster than a normal compost pile in winter (here in Connecticut).
@@TheeAntiChris I’m currently doing bokashi in my kitchen, it does not smell. When open lid no bad odor, just a sweet fermentation smell
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Perfect video. This is how this kind of videos supposed to be. Showing all the processes within 2 months span. So we can see the process and the result. Appreciate the time and effort. Thanks
I’ve been doing bokashi composting for several years with good results. I use a fraction of the inoculate bran that you use in the video. It simply doesn’t take that much to get good microbe activity.
How do you use this method for composting day to day food scraps? Should I save up scraps for several days and then add them to the bucket? What if it takes a few weeks to fill the bucket? Will the older stuff in the bottom be ok to leave while I wait for the top stuff to be "ready?"
@@amym.4823 yes, I keep a bag going in the fridge until it’s full and then transfer to the bokashi bucket and add the bran. It can take a while to fill the bucket. The spigot on my first bucket broke so I don’t even bother draining the leachate and it doesn’t seem to matter.
Should save a little bit of the bokashi and the juice from each batch to start your next batch -it will help and you won’t have to start from scratch and use new grain each time
There is nothing wrong with this, but I have heard that the microbial activity from the formulated "Effective Micro-Organism Mix" happens in stages. First the lactobacillus, then the yeast and other fungal/bacterial activity. If you start a new batch with just the old juice, you aren't getting the proper "cycle" of microbial activity so it is usually a better idea to use the grain from scratch every time. Hope this helps!
I live in Mesa, AZ and the soil can be very hard. I have a small are to garden in., I have a coffee can with a lid that I put my table scrapes in. When it is full, I walk out to the garden and dig a hole and dump the coffee can contents into hole and then cover it with dirt. My garden rows can be turned over with very little effort. Anyone that lives in AZ understands what that means. I'm in my 70's and need very little work. My method works for me. Good luck on all the methods suggested.
I was going to say, as long as one's garden bed is in contact with the ground, all we need to do in AZ is bury the fresh scraps, cover with soil and plant immediately 👍
Choose the compost method whatever is easier and works for you. Soil can compost all organic matters that's for sure but will take longer time. I have a small vegi bed and there is no room for me to dig a random hole to bury fresh scraps. I will use bokashi bran to fertilize daily scraps until I harvest the corps are bury it before planting the new corps. It breaks down quickly especially overs the winter. And I also don't want animals to come and dig out the soil to look for fresh food.
My wife studied agriculture for 4 years. She even graduated in agriculture. But she doesn't know anything about agriculture. My wife's kinda useless in it.🤣
A really GREAT tip for the buffer rock in the bottom bucket. The top one can get so heavy it sticks in the bottom bucket and it's a struggle to separate them. I use newspaper as a filter at the bottom of the top bucket.
put a hole in the bottom bucket so no air suction is created. Somewhere above where you expect the liquid level to be. It always helps some, the bigger or more holes, the easier, but do not over do it. Lol
Kevin, I do all types of composting and have recently learned that bokashi is high in Organic NH4. Worm castings on the other hand are high in NO3. Both are plant available under different conditions. One when it’s hot and the other when it’s cool. Considering it was 40f in New Orleans a few days ago and today it’s over 70f, my garden is covered. Btw I’m enjoying watching you build up the new garden. Keep the great content coming. Thanks
Thank for sharing your bokashi composting I'd never heard of it & i was looking for greener solutions for food waste because it seem counter intuitive to recycling some foo like fruit but others ended up in landfill. But I'd grateful to hear your thoughts from experience , think something went wrong, because i used a tshirt to line the bottom bucket and when went to empty the bokashi into the soil the t-shirt had completely disintegrated, has anyone known that to happen or have i done it wrong? Any thoughts on that would be greatly appreciated thanks 😊
@@morganjones5922 it sounds like you are on the right track. The liquid leachate is an acidic liquid so for the T-shirt to disintegrate sounds reasonable. I actually put a mix of ash and charcoal from the fireplace in the bottom bucket. Ash is alkaline so it neutralizes the leachate and charcoal is a great sponge that soaks up the liquid so I’m able to capture the potassium from the ash without raising the PH in my soil and the charcoal once soaked make a wonderful biochar soil amendment.
I’ve made my own Bokashi for years with shredded paper and em1. I live in maui where bran is imported so tried paper. I love it because I continue to fill my bin with very little smell. I just have a single bin that I keep under my kitchen sink. I dump into my garden or compost every 3-4 weeks. It looks a lot more broken down than yours did. Plus it is great way to get rid of paper you don’t want anyone reading!
I do all grain home brewed beer and use the spend grains in my composter all the time. The added heat from the mashing stage really helps kick the compost pile into overdrive. Usually find it still steaming a few days on. Gets compacted a bit easily however so you need to turn it from time to time.
I did what you did with the bokashi. However, I did it differently. I got woodchips (the more decomposed the better also decomposed leaves.) I got seaweed from the beach, washed the salt out of it, and I got fish waste from my Chinese fish market. Mixed fish waste and wood chips and washed seaweed, and put it in a bucket capped it off with fresh woodchips and spent coffee grounds from Starbucks, and voila. In one week composed. Instead of a bucket, you can put it in a pit.
I watched your video in early 2020 and now I’ve moved to my newest farm and am doing this method I’m on my first bucket which is ready to sit for a couple weeks before going out to the garden bed Thanks for sharing
Super excited to see you using SD Microbes. I was using them in my cannabis composting operation. I now use them for food waste composting. One of the most active bokashi products I've used.
I bury all the plant remnants at the end of the season. I was skeptical at first, but it worked great. I live in Edmonton, Alberta which is a zone 3b/4a, and have a very dense clay based soil. The section I buried the plants in turned into incredible soil in one winter. So needless to say it gets done every year now.
@@trackee2024 Cut up anything hard or fibrous, like brassica stems, into one or two inch pieces. A dozen whacks with a hatchet will do if you don't have a wood chipper.
I did that too. Didn’t bother cutting stuff up. I even buried a whole bunch of bananas that went black. The soil and plants loved it. It went from hard clay soil that would twist my garden tools to soil I could scoop with my hands. 🤩🤩🤩
I watched bokashi processing too, I never did one, but I give a try one day ...here in kuching sarawak, Borneo... Its a tropical climate ...it works as long ones wanted ....required knowledge of how's matters most...
It's literally that easy, but people like to complicate composting. Burying at the end of the growing season is a slower process though, and growers become impatient. I'm working with worm composting. It's not going as well as I hoped.
Thank you for this video. I wanted to compost but didn't want the hassle of the "traditional" way. Now I will just put this on my patio and save up compost for next year! I was thinking of using the urban worm bag for this but instead of worms, alternating compost/soil with bokashi fermented scraps. That way my finished compost can be harvested from the bottom.
So glad I found this video. I have 3 Bokashi bins going. A month now. Reason being I'm afraid to open it cause I have a fear of maggots.😅. I don't mind earth worms and garden alot. However I'm petrified of maggots and honestly thought if I open them I'll see maggots 😅😅😅😅. Thank you for this. Ready to bury by scraps now
I enjoy watching these videos and finding out about the different ways to compost. As a teenager (before the internet) I tried adding dog poop to our compost thinking it'd add useful nutrients [True story!]. Unsurprisingly the costs ended up outweighing the benefits; especially with regards to my mum's hanging baskets.
We use Bokashi as an in-between composter, especially during the winter. It's convenient to have the bokashi bucket in our kitchen and only go out to the outdoor composter once every few weeks.
Thanks for this video. In Arizona, we don't have worms in our crazy soil! This is probably the composting method I will switch over to. Right now we are trying "keyhole gardening" for arid zones, but it's not a high turnover system. This is exciting.
Also live in Arizona I've been doing the "daves fetid swamp water" thing with veggy and fruit scraps. Becuase I don't want alot of roaches. Meats and dairy products I've only ever used once when I was planting my pomegranate I dug the hole super deep and mixed in old milk, moldy cheese, old steak, something from the freezer that wasn't meat anymore and anything yucky. Crushed up some charcoal threw that in there stirred it up and put a layer of dirt on top. Then planted my pomegranate on top. Mulched around it then planted 13 bean soup in the mulch. So far it has been doing great in 117 degree weather I water about every three days but I don't use the water strait from the hose becuase of the chlorine kills fungi and bacteria. I let it sit in tubs for a day to dechlorinate first.
How often can you open your bucket? Like, in theory, could you use this instead of a garbage bin? Add food scraps to it throughout the day? Or does that defeat the purpose of it being anaerobic?
I do Bokashi n i was surprised u went to soil in 2 weeks. I generally fillup the bucket and then let it sit for 6-8 weeks, i may drain the liquid n then use the liquid as compost tea. After 6 weeks of sitting in the bucket, i put in soil for 4 weeks. That way i dont get any scraps.
Can you add this material right into your garden? I have lots of veggies but didn't know if compost isn't fully broken down if it would cause other things to grow
@@alyssahenderson2089 Throw into the soil directly. No need to wait. Some critters might dig and eat, but hey no worries. It will all be decomposed a few weeks.
Great video! I have just ordered a bokashi bucket coz I’m too posh for old buckets 😁. I had been burying food scraps directly in the garden and it worked great for the soil but it was kind of nasty to go out in winter to do that. So we’ll see if the bokashi method is less annoying. Anyway, I loved watching your video. So thanks !
I live in Australia and have the Urban Composter (made in Australia). Same process. This video is great because I just got it for christmas and it gives me more knowledge on how to use it. I love this process because I can compost anything, so living in Australia, we have flies. It reduces flies that were once flying around my garbage bin because there is no food scraps in there anymore. The lid is great. The ants can't get in, they tried and I did have maggots, from a fly that got in when the lid was opened, but because of the acidic conditions, they didn't last long. They got composted. Thanks for this video.
Brand: All Seasons Bokashi, 3 pack of 1 gallon bags = 45$ ordered on Amazon. I put vegetable scraps in a bucket with dry leaves and after a month I get the white mycelium buildup. When it’s time to brew a microbe tea I’ll pull a few white patches out & put in a strainer type bag and brew a tea using worm castings, a little dry nutrient, maybe liquid kelp, a sugar like molasses, brew with an oxygen machine for 12+ hours, dilute & feed. I’m no pro but that’s what I’m using Bokashi for. I also tested a plant by putting a large amount of Bokashi in the soil to see how a plant would handle too much Bokashi (I also put overkill on Biochar) the plant grew fabulous. I have a video of it. Ethos Purple Sunset. Super strong/ funky terps.
thanks for sharing this information. I am challenged when composting because it takes so long, I usually don't have enough of browns or greens materials... but the bokashi method seems like a fantastic alternative to my compost efforts. Woo Hoo!
Best video yet on Bokashi...informative, succinct:) My hesitation has ever been the cost... $40 could buy lots of green sand, guano, etc. I prefer soldier flies. They used to ick me out but I have learned to respect the little guys...they relish everything icky. (Eughk). AND my duck frenzy- feeds if she finds some. One idea: a blender takes less time than chopping and the food will compost more quickly:) I try to blend all my food compost and add scrap paper till the brew reaches the desired consistency.
I asked this on another video: " would it be worth it to invest in a small cheap blender?" For compost only? And apparently.. I'm not the only one to think this as a good idea😊👍
Great video! We generate a bucket full of waste every 2 days. So is it possible to use a large barrel, maybe a 200 liter one and follow the same anaerobic process?
Hi Kevin and greetings from sub-tropical Brisbane, Australia. I love your channel, particularly the fact that you are prepared to interact with your subscribers and answer their questions. In my area I have Self Sufficient Me but he never answers any questions. The only change I would like to see is the provision of temperatures in degrees Celsius overlaid on the video. Otherwise I love both this and Epic Gardening Homestead. All I need to do is swap over the seasons so I always watch your new videos and then re-watch them in our growing seasons.
If that is his attitude then why post anything on RUclips. I have unsubscribed and now follow a range of channels where I can have my questions answered. I only watched Mark because he is just up the highway from me. He is making good money out of his channel and his subscribers.
Definitely giving this a shot! A couple of $3 Walmart 5 gallon buckets, a bag of Bokashi n it's save ur scraps time...thnx for the video, it helps alot
I learned so much! I will now be improving and fine tuning my bokashi system with your tips. i did not know about the brick or cloth and I was almost going to quit bokashi altogether because the stinky liquid mes (which was flooding the bottom) was too gross. Thank you. I really appreciate this video.
I also do bokashi for my dairy, oil and meat wastes. I layer a few pieces of paper instead of a cloth. I bury the paper along with my bokashi and wash the bin without the need to touch that cloth. All veggie scraps goes to my worm bins as bokashi takes more efforts when comes to bury and the smell can be an issue if not bury deep enough.
@@pamelasierzan7838 Going very well, thanks. It lives up to the hype. Got two buckets going now. Both going into one of my abandoned raised beds. The Bokashi grains are remarkable. Highly recommend. PS: even had a spot in the yard my cat used as a litter box. It really smelled bad. Threw Bokashi grains on the spot and it killed the odor! The next day, the ammonia smell was gone.
LOL, the food was buried closer to the edge and your test dig was closer to the middle hence the difficulty in finding the compost. None the less, looks like a good system. Love your videos.
Hi Kevin, Grear video!! I have a question: how often can you open the bucket? I started my bokashi last Sunday and I have more food scraps to add to my bucket, but I don't want to ruin the process. Thank you!!
This doesn't fully answer your question but you could freeze some food scraps until you've got a sufficient amount to add to the bokashi bin, so that you avoid opening it a few times a day
Hold up, did u ever say what to do with the liquid?? I watched it twice looking for that 😆 well?? You've got some explaining to do! Lol thx for all the valuable knowledge.☺🌱
hey dear, as my researched I've found out you can use plain Bokashi juice to clear your drains, or you can dilute it 1:100 ratio with water to manuring for your plants
Hey Canadians and snow people. What about the long winter? Can we bury it in frozen soil? Will it still decompose as much in the cold or must I store it until spring and then chuck it on in as things thaw?
I simply bury my food scraps straight in the garden without all the fuss and let the worms go to work. Breaks down in about 4-6 weeks and I repeat the process until planting season. Trench composting; easy and painless. But thanks you anyway.
@Cori MacNaughtonim not sold on bokashi either and its seems like an expensive gimmick but each to their own. I cant see the benefit in fermenting food scraps for 2 or 3 weeks only then to have bury it in the soil or a compost pile. If the scraps are just buried or composted straightaway, they would probably break down to the same point over that same 2-3 week period. If takes a little longer to break down than bokashi, then so what? Plus there is the ongoing cost with the bran which you dont have with burying or composting food waste directly. I may be missing something and as I said each to their own.
Cori MacNaughton I put the dirt from the pit on top of the compost in the pit and plant on it right away. So that is immediate use of soil, no waiting.
Been trying Bokashi for 3 or 4 months now. Fed my worm bins and garden compost pile with it. Kept it in garage until this last round-left on back porch with 90 degree N.Florida temps and my barrel was full of tiny maggots? This is using only veggies & fruits. I do compile a food scraps tub on kitchen counter and it takes abt 5 days to fill it-it can get ‘drippy’ & decompose a bit. You mention it should be fresh. Keep in frig? What to do? Return to garage? Hate those lil white creepy crawlies!
It was interesting to learn how this works but I think I will stick with my compost bucket to compoat bin or worm bin. If you can't put in moldy scraps then I wouldn't have enough of them to even get started before the stuff in the bucket got moldy. Another technique that works for me is to build compost in 4 tree pots I got free from a landscaper. Right now they are growing tomatoes, zucchine and peppers but when they come out I will dump the made soil on the garden beds and start composting in them. I'll keep the soil in one or two of them and put some shovelsful of soil on top of the scraps in another pot to deter animals. When that one is full, I'll start another and plant in it next year. Can't have a real compost bin due to living in a condo/HOA community. Plus I am old and not strong.
Glad you got it worked out but I wouldn’t write off bokashi bc “you can’t put in moldy scraps.” Be careful about listening to advice that deals in absolutes. I would say give it a try. It costs little in money and effort to start up, and see if your bokashi microbes can outcompete!
How often should this be done? What should we do with the continued accumulation of food scraps once the composed scraps are already added to the beds/soil? Hopefully, that makes sense.
@@denise34moore what I'll do is I'll put a seal inside a 5 gallon bucket. Silicone is good, but you can also just fill a few layered plastic bags with water and tie them off. They'll create a water seal. That way it's still anaerobic if you don't fill it up that fast. Once it's full I let it sit sealed for a bit, usually until the second bucket is full. Then, I'll add half to my worm bin and half to my slower compost. The bacteria and worms make short work of it in either case, but you don't want to overload the worms since the bokashi is fairly acidic. So you're always just going between a two bucket system. There are only two people in our household though, so you may want to add a bucket for every couple people in your family.
AND... my first thought is "how do I get out of continuously buying Bokashi grains?" Ah HAH! use some of the liquid from the bottom to inoculate the next batch, just like I do with sauerkraut. I believe it is the same bacteria ! Or maybe I should just wait for the next video.
It may work. But it could go wrong too. The Bran is not that expensive. If you are filling more than 15buckets a year, just make a batch of Bran yourself.
I don't even have a garden, so I have no idea how I ended up binge watching your videos hahaha but I am really enjoying them and thinking of how I could start something small once I have the outside space for this. Out of curiosity, do different compost methods work better for different plants? Or maybe work better for outside gardens/pots vs inside potted plants? Or is compost generally 'one size fits all'?
What matters is what you are putting in your compost. For Example the compost made entirely out of leaves would not be as much as nutritious as the one made from a balanced number of nitrogen and carbon. Plus plants do have different requirements but all composts work fine.
Home made compost is a good all round soil conditioner. It benefits all types of soil and feeds the essential good bacteria and fungi which are required to make nutrients present in the soil available to your plants. Start small with a few containers. there are many fruit and vegetables you can grow in containers eg. tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, potatoes, cucumbers, beans and peas as well as summer and winter squash and melons. As you are coming into the fall you can plant broccoli, cauliflower and cabbages in containers (choose suitable varieties), onions, leeks, turnips, kohl rabbi, and on the list goes. There is NO comparison between a shop bought vegetable and one you have grown yourself and picked that same day. It is also great stress relief and gets you out in the sunshine in these difficult times. Good Luck with it!!
The juice is super acidic. You could pour it down drains to clear them up or over weeds to kill them. If you dilute it (1tbs of juice for every 2 liters of water), it acts as a fertilizer.
FYI the buckets are already offset by 3-4". Put them inside each other and hold it up to a light. You'll see. No need for the brick. All it is doing is taking up real estate and adding needless weight to your bin. Just sayin. Good video. Thanks :)
The govt charges us for our leftovers that don’t go in our compost, but now after this I’ll know what I will be doing, even tho they’re still charging me for it. Lol. New subscriber. Cheers skipper.
I actually use this method for handling my dogs poo... Although it can be anti pathogenic, I wouldnt recommend burying it in your veggie garden, but I use it elsewhere in the yard. Works great.
I was wondering if this was an option- dog poo is my households primary form of organic waste I think 😂 So it would be safe for flowers you think, after the bokashi?
@@gretcheneisenman4760 Yes should be safe. It gets processed rather quickly once buried in soil. There are a few youtube vids on it, but you'll find more about the process via google.
@ 2:28 - Decomposition occurs when anerobic it's not 'wasted' in that sense. but yes I agree with it being a waste to throw scraps. - Keep up the good work anyway :D
What would happen if you mechanically broke down food scraps further before composting? Like with a blender or just smashing it all up? Maybe discard any water that comes out at this time?
Hello, thank you for the video. At 12:50 you state the whole process took 3.5- 4 weeks. It seems to have taken much longer. For example, one has to collect a ton of food scraps. Then inoculate the food with the bran and let it sit for 2 weeks. Then, one has to place foods in the garden. You had a 1 month update in which the food had not fully been broken down in the garden. You estimated this needed at least another week. This whole process seems to be MUCH longer than 3.5 weeks. The grains along cost 5 lbs for $50. I think a much better, more efficient and cost effective method is vermicompostinf. I bought a 7 gallon black bin from Home Depot for less than $7. A pound of red wigglers for $24 plust $11 shopping.. I feed them once a week (vegetable, cooked grain (small), fruit and any plant scraps) and they FINISH everything. There is need to wait 1+ month for the food to be broken down. They ate so much and made many castings, I started a second bin! If you are queasy just wear a pear of plastic gloves. It took me 6 months to place my bare hands in the bin. One recommendation is don't use the lid or make holes very big. The bin has a noxious smell that needs to be aired out. There is no need to drill holes at the bottom either. I'm just conscientious about not adding too much liquid. For bones, I smash and dry them after making bone broth. I use those as bone meal. I just don't add salt and pepper until after I have removed the bones.
We have a slew of micro-breweries nearby that will give the grain away, or we can dumpster dive it. Throw in some yogurt or spent milk and you're off to the races. I love these hipster dipsticks showing you how to be more self-sufficient with $50 boutique ingredients. Make your own for free. Frugality is indemic.
5L of bokashi bran costs $18 aud in Australia. If I use similar amount shown in the video it’ll end up costing way more than buying $4 per 25L compost directly.
Can you also sprinkle or layer in soil as well to save money by not needing to use so much composting grain . Also along with the soul, can you put in worms as well? Thank you 🙏🏼💜🇨🇦
I bought some bokashi powder years ago and have been making my own from my batches from this original batch ever since. You only need to buy bokashi once and then make your own batches from the original batch indefinitely.
This must be what my town does. We have to separate all food scraps from regular trash so they could compost it down. But I always wondered how they could compost fat, cooked meat, cooked bones and stuff like that
Thank you for the very informative video. I have only just started looking into this. I was expecting you to pour the liquid in as the bokashi tea. What did you do with the tea/ liquid?
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
1:44 - 5 Benefits of Bokashi
3:09 - Building and Filling a Bokashi Bin
8:11 - Checking Up on Bin
9:09 - Adding to Soil
10:55 - 1 Month Checkup
I prefer ocean fertilization ... lol
Where do you get Bokashi?
How can I take care of the bokashi if I live in an apartment and in an area that gets way below freezing temps in the winter? I looked online and people say to store the fermented contents outside in another airtight bucket, but what if I don’t have much room around me to do that? Also, I live where temperatures fluctuate a lot because of wind, and in the summer gets to around 100 degrees (WA state)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like you could have gotten two circles out of that towel (4:45). Feels a bit wasteful, even if it's an old one that would have gone in the trash otherwise.
Do the spent grains need to be dry.? I can get spent brewery grains from the brewery down the street, but they're WET....
I live in the Northeast and have used bokashi to ferment my kitchen scraps all winter long. When my bucket got full, I would let it ferment for two weeks and then bury it in a raised bed in my garden. Now that it's spring, I'm looking forward to top dressing my garden with this awesome soil. I find the breakdown was much faster than a normal compost pile in winter (here in Connecticut).
I want to start a bokashi compost bin, but I live in an apartment. From your experience, is bokashi composting smelly?
@@TheeAntiChris I’m currently doing bokashi in my kitchen, it does not smell. When open lid no bad odor, just a sweet fermentation smell
Perfect video. This is how this kind of videos supposed to be. Showing all the processes within 2 months span. So we can see the process and the result. Appreciate the time and effort. Thanks
I’ve been doing bokashi composting for several years with good results. I use a fraction of the inoculate bran that you use in the video. It simply doesn’t take that much to get good microbe activity.
How do you use this method for composting day to day food scraps? Should I save up scraps for several days and then add them to the bucket? What if it takes a few weeks to fill the bucket? Will the older stuff in the bottom be ok to leave while I wait for the top stuff to be "ready?"
@@amym.4823 yes, I keep a bag going in the fridge until it’s full and then transfer to the bokashi bucket and add the bran. It can take a while to fill the bucket. The spigot on my first bucket broke so I don’t even bother draining the leachate and it doesn’t seem to matter.
Should save a little bit of the bokashi and the juice from each batch to start your next batch -it will help and you won’t have to start from scratch and use new grain each time
Can you explain a little bit more on why you should use the juice?
There is nothing wrong with this, but I have heard that the microbial activity from the formulated "Effective Micro-Organism Mix" happens in stages. First the lactobacillus, then the yeast and other fungal/bacterial activity. If you start a new batch with just the old juice, you aren't getting the proper "cycle" of microbial activity so it is usually a better idea to use the grain from scratch every time. Hope this helps!
He didn't ever say what to do with the drainage
@@seresnyder4348 it's great for watering your indoor plants. Plant smoothie
@@seresnyder4348 liquid fertilizer! Dilute.
I live in Mesa, AZ and the soil can be very hard. I have a small are to garden in., I have a coffee can with a lid that I put my table scrapes in. When it is full, I walk out to the garden and dig a hole and dump the coffee can contents into hole and then cover it with dirt. My garden rows can be turned over with very little effort. Anyone that lives in AZ understands what that means. I'm in my 70's and need very little work. My method works for me. Good luck on all the methods suggested.
I was going to say, as long as one's garden bed is in contact with the ground, all we need to do in AZ is bury the fresh scraps, cover with soil and plant immediately 👍
Here there would be squirrels racoons rats and foxes to eat them in my yard if I did not ferment first
Choose the compost method whatever is easier and works for you. Soil can compost all organic matters that's for sure but will take longer time. I have a small vegi bed and there is no room for me to dig a random hole to bury fresh scraps. I will use bokashi bran to fertilize daily scraps until I harvest the corps are bury it before planting the new corps. It breaks down quickly especially overs the winter. And I also don't want animals to come and dig out the soil to look for fresh food.
My mom is an agriculturist in the Philippines and we’ve been composting with bokashi for years! Never knew this is what happens tho 😬😳😳
How is the final product look like? Cause i the final product in this video is still not broken down in my opinion
Bruh
Panji Rizki it does not break down. It ferments.
My wife studied agriculture for 4 years. She even graduated in agriculture. But she doesn't know anything about agriculture. My wife's kinda useless in it.🤣
@@neverwinterfarms yes, im finally understand what bokashi is
A really GREAT tip for the buffer rock in the bottom bucket. The top one can get so heavy it sticks in the bottom bucket and it's a struggle to separate them. I use newspaper as a filter at the bottom of the top bucket.
put a hole in the bottom bucket so no air suction is created. Somewhere above where you expect the liquid level to be. It always helps some, the bigger or more holes, the easier, but do not over do it. Lol
Kevin, I do all types of composting and have recently learned that bokashi is high in Organic NH4. Worm castings on the other hand are high in NO3. Both are plant available under different conditions. One when it’s hot and the other when it’s cool. Considering it was 40f in New Orleans a few days ago and today it’s over 70f, my garden is covered. Btw I’m enjoying watching you build up the new garden. Keep the great content coming. Thanks
Very helpful. Thanks.
Thank for sharing your bokashi composting I'd never heard of it & i was looking for greener solutions for food waste because it seem counter intuitive to recycling some foo like fruit but others ended up in landfill.
But I'd grateful to hear your thoughts from experience , think something went wrong, because i used a tshirt to line the bottom bucket and when went to empty the bokashi into the soil the t-shirt had completely disintegrated, has anyone known that to happen or have i done it wrong?
Any thoughts on that would be greatly appreciated thanks 😊
@@morganjones5922 it sounds like you are on the right track. The liquid leachate is an acidic liquid so for the T-shirt to disintegrate sounds reasonable. I actually put a mix of ash and charcoal from the fireplace in the bottom bucket. Ash is alkaline so it neutralizes the leachate and charcoal is a great sponge that soaks up the liquid so I’m able to capture the potassium from the ash without raising the PH in my soil and the charcoal once soaked make a wonderful biochar soil amendment.
I’ve made my own Bokashi for years with shredded paper and em1. I live in maui where bran is imported so tried paper. I love it because I continue to fill my bin with very little smell. I just have a single bin that I keep under my kitchen sink. I dump into my garden or compost every 3-4 weeks. It looks a lot more broken down than yours did. Plus it is great way to get rid of paper you don’t want anyone reading!
Kathy, if you know a coffee roaster, you can use the coffee bran to make your own :)
Kathy I use shredded paper that I don't want to see in my worm bin . It works great in the worms seemed to like it.
Can we fill the garbage day by day? I mean not directly fill the whole bucket?
I do all grain home brewed beer and use the spend grains in my composter all the time. The added heat from the mashing stage really helps kick the compost pile into overdrive. Usually find it still steaming a few days on. Gets compacted a bit easily however so you need to turn it from time to time.
I did what you did with the bokashi. However, I did it differently. I got woodchips (the more decomposed the better also decomposed leaves.) I got seaweed from the beach, washed the salt out of it, and I got fish waste from my Chinese fish market. Mixed fish waste and wood chips and washed seaweed, and put it in a bucket capped it off with fresh woodchips and spent coffee grounds from Starbucks, and voila. In one week composed. Instead of a bucket, you can put it in a pit.
Don't wash the seaweed the sea salt minerals are very good for the soil
@@patrickwilson9783 Okay, thanks.
Sounds very nutritious
I'm from Philippines and I've been doing bokashi composting for months now. My plants are doing well. 😊
I watched your video in early 2020 and now I’ve moved to my newest farm and am doing this method I’m on my first bucket which is ready to sit for a couple weeks before going out to the garden bed
Thanks for sharing
Super excited to see you using SD Microbes. I was using them in my cannabis composting operation. I now use them for food waste composting. One of the most active bokashi products I've used.
I bury all the plant remnants at the end of the season. I was skeptical at first, but it worked great. I live in Edmonton, Alberta which is a zone 3b/4a, and have a very dense clay based soil. The section I buried the plants in turned into incredible soil in one winter. So needless to say it gets done every year now.
Do you cut them up or just bury them whole? I’m in zone 5b and curious to try it!
@@trackee2024 Cut up anything hard or fibrous, like brassica stems, into one or two inch pieces. A dozen whacks with a hatchet will do if you don't have a wood chipper.
I did that too. Didn’t bother cutting stuff up. I even buried a whole bunch of bananas that went black. The soil and plants loved it. It went from hard clay soil that would twist my garden tools to soil I could scoop with my hands. 🤩🤩🤩
I watched bokashi processing too, I never did one, but I give a try one day ...here in kuching sarawak, Borneo... Its a tropical climate ...it works as long ones wanted ....required knowledge of how's matters most...
It's literally that easy, but people like to complicate composting. Burying at the end of the growing season is a slower process though, and growers become impatient. I'm working with worm composting. It's not going as well as I hoped.
Thank you for this video. I wanted to compost but didn't want the hassle of the "traditional" way. Now I will just put this on my patio and save up compost for next year! I was thinking of using the urban worm bag for this but instead of worms, alternating compost/soil with bokashi fermented scraps. That way my finished compost can be harvested from the bottom.
So glad I found this video. I have 3 Bokashi bins going. A month now. Reason being I'm afraid to open it cause I have a fear of maggots.😅. I don't mind earth worms and garden alot. However I'm petrified of maggots and honestly thought if I open them I'll see maggots 😅😅😅😅. Thank you for this. Ready to bury by scraps now
I enjoy watching these videos and finding out about the different ways to compost. As a teenager (before the internet) I tried adding dog poop to our compost thinking it'd add useful nutrients [True story!]. Unsurprisingly the costs ended up outweighing the benefits; especially with regards to my mum's hanging baskets.
That must have been fun every time it rained.
@@RichWoods23 We had to be especially careful when watering too
We use Bokashi as an in-between composter, especially during the winter. It's convenient to have the bokashi bucket in our kitchen and only go out to the outdoor composter once every few weeks.
Adding this as a mulch with a layer of compost on top at the end of the season would be beautiful
Simple. Clear. Informative. Thank you so much for the video!
Thanks for this video. In Arizona, we don't have worms in our crazy soil! This is probably the composting method I will switch over to. Right now we are trying "keyhole gardening" for arid zones, but it's not a high turnover system. This is exciting.
Also live in Arizona I've been doing the "daves fetid swamp water" thing with veggy and fruit scraps. Becuase I don't want alot of roaches. Meats and dairy products I've only ever used once when I was planting my pomegranate I dug the hole super deep and mixed in old milk, moldy cheese, old steak, something from the freezer that wasn't meat anymore and anything yucky. Crushed up some charcoal threw that in there stirred it up and put a layer of dirt on top. Then planted my pomegranate on top. Mulched around it then planted 13 bean soup in the mulch. So far it has been doing great in 117 degree weather I water about every three days but I don't use the water strait from the hose becuase of the chlorine kills fungi and bacteria. I let it sit in tubs for a day to dechlorinate first.
It can be really hard finding any kind of useful bokashi info. This clears up a lot of questions I've had. Thanks!
How often can you open your bucket? Like, in theory, could you use this instead of a garbage bin? Add food scraps to it throughout the day? Or does that defeat the purpose of it being anaerobic?
I use mine like a garbage bin! It still works
I usually gather the organic waste in a separate bin and add into bokashi bucket once a day
Wow I’ve been using Bokashi for years and I still got some great tips to up my game from this video. Thanks
I do Bokashi n i was surprised u went to soil in 2 weeks. I generally fillup the bucket and then let it sit for 6-8 weeks, i may drain the liquid n then use the liquid as compost tea. After 6 weeks of sitting in the bucket, i put in soil for 4 weeks. That way i dont get any scraps.
Can you add this material right into your garden? I have lots of veggies but didn't know if compost isn't fully broken down if it would cause other things to grow
Do you compost Dairy on your Bokashi? I wanna try it out because you can compost anything!
@@alyssahenderson2089 Throw into the soil directly. No need to wait. Some critters might dig and eat, but hey no worries. It will all be decomposed a few weeks.
I use sour dough for my Bokashi. Its working great. Greetings from Germany and Merry Christmas.
Oh creative! Love it and Merry Christmas
Oooooh. I'll have to try this. :-)
@@loerkue I`ve used natural sour dough, in sour dough you have all your needed bakteria and yeast.
I searched through the comments specifically to see if sourdough starter can be used, thank you!
@@Marcian2013 how about the yeast we use for baking?
Great video! I have just ordered a bokashi bucket coz I’m too posh for old buckets 😁. I had been burying food scraps directly in the garden and it worked great for the soil but it was kind of nasty to go out in winter to do that. So we’ll see if the bokashi method is less annoying. Anyway, I loved watching your video. So thanks !
I live in Australia and have the Urban Composter (made in Australia). Same process. This video is great because I just got it for christmas and it gives me more knowledge on how to use it. I love this process because I can compost anything, so living in Australia, we have flies. It reduces flies that were once flying around my garbage bin because there is no food scraps in there anymore. The lid is great. The ants can't get in, they tried and I did have maggots, from a fly that got in when the lid was opened, but because of the acidic conditions, they didn't last long. They got composted. Thanks for this video.
Glad to hear, you're very welcome!
Brand: All Seasons Bokashi, 3 pack of 1 gallon bags = 45$ ordered on Amazon.
I put vegetable scraps in a bucket with dry leaves and after a month I get the white mycelium buildup. When it’s time to brew a microbe tea I’ll pull a few white patches out & put in a strainer type bag and brew a tea using worm castings, a little dry nutrient, maybe liquid kelp, a sugar like molasses, brew with an oxygen machine for 12+ hours, dilute & feed. I’m no pro but that’s what I’m using Bokashi for.
I also tested a plant by putting a large amount of Bokashi in the soil to see how a plant would handle too much Bokashi (I also put overkill on Biochar) the plant grew fabulous. I have a video of it. Ethos Purple Sunset. Super strong/ funky terps.
Great video. Now I can finally use the bokashi bin I bought about 10 years ago!
just bbought my 1st ever bokashi compost bin! Hella excited! My first ever compost system!
THANK YOU for ALL your videos! They are fantastic!
thanks for sharing this information. I am challenged when composting because it takes so long, I usually don't have enough of browns or greens materials... but the bokashi method seems like a fantastic alternative to my compost efforts. Woo Hoo!
How do we proceed in winter when the ground is frozen and the two weeks of sitting in the Bokashi container have passed?
Best video yet on Bokashi...informative, succinct:) My hesitation has ever been the cost... $40 could buy lots of green sand, guano, etc. I prefer soldier flies. They used to ick me out but I have learned to respect the little guys...they relish everything icky. (Eughk). AND my duck frenzy- feeds if she finds some.
One idea: a blender takes less time than chopping and the food will compost more quickly:) I try to blend all my food compost and add scrap paper till the brew reaches the desired consistency.
Yeah there are many methods, if the price tag on the bran hurts then of course other options work :)
I asked this on another video: " would it be worth it to invest in a small cheap blender?" For compost only?
And apparently.. I'm not the only one to think this as a good idea😊👍
@@mom23js goodwill
@@mom23js A blender is a great idea, but depending in your foodscraps, you may need a fairly powerful one.
Great video! We generate a bucket full of waste every 2 days. So is it possible to use a large barrel, maybe a 200 liter one and follow the same anaerobic process?
Hi Kevin and greetings from sub-tropical Brisbane, Australia. I love your channel, particularly the fact that you are prepared to interact with your subscribers and answer their questions. In my area I have Self Sufficient Me but he never answers any questions. The only change I would like to see is the provision of temperatures in degrees Celsius overlaid on the video. Otherwise I love both this and Epic Gardening Homestead. All I need to do is swap over the seasons so I always watch your new videos and then re-watch them in our growing seasons.
I think Mark only answers questions posed by his supporters on Patreon.
If that is his attitude then why post anything on RUclips. I have unsubscribed and now follow a range of channels where I can have my questions answered. I only watched Mark because he is just up the highway from me. He is making good money out of his channel and his subscribers.
Definitely giving this a shot! A couple of $3 Walmart 5 gallon buckets, a bag of Bokashi n it's save ur scraps time...thnx for the video, it helps alot
Love the channel my question is can you use meat scraps and bones. And could you put the bokashi in a worm bin thanks
I learned so much! I will now be improving and fine tuning my bokashi system with your tips. i did not know about the brick or cloth and I was almost going to quit bokashi altogether because the stinky liquid mes (which was flooding the bottom) was too gross. Thank you. I really appreciate this video.
I also do bokashi for my dairy, oil and meat wastes. I layer a few pieces of paper instead of a cloth. I bury the paper along with my bokashi and wash the bin without the need to touch that cloth. All veggie scraps goes to my worm bins as bokashi takes more efforts when comes to bury and the smell can be an issue if not bury deep enough.
Janet Great idea to use paper!
Just got my grains!!!!!!! Got my buckets (food grade). Re-watching this video for instruction. Thanks Kevin!
How has it been going?
@@pamelasierzan7838 Going very well, thanks. It lives up to the hype. Got two buckets going now. Both going into one of my abandoned raised beds. The Bokashi grains are remarkable. Highly recommend. PS: even had a spot in the yard my cat used as a litter box. It really smelled bad. Threw Bokashi grains on the spot and it killed the odor! The next day, the ammonia smell was gone.
LOL, the food was buried closer to the edge and your test dig was closer to the middle hence the difficulty in finding the compost. None the less, looks like a good system. Love your videos.
Hi Kevin,
Grear video!! I have a question: how often can you open the bucket? I started my bokashi last Sunday and I have more food scraps to add to my bucket, but I don't want to ruin the process. Thank you!!
This doesn't fully answer your question but you could freeze some food scraps until you've got a sufficient amount to add to the bokashi bin, so that you avoid opening it a few times a day
This sounds perfect. I can't wait to try it. Plus I really want one of your raised beds.
Yeah, it's a fun method! You can buy the beds at shop.epicgardening.com and feel free to email me with any questions kevin@epicgardening.com
Normally I bury my kitchen waste, but good to know this method. Thanks.
My Grandma always used trench composting in her garden
I;ve been wondering about bokashi since i encountered it 2 years ago. Thanks so much for this video
I am very impressed. I have been trying to raise worms for composting.
Thank you Kevin.🌸
Very, very interesting! This looks very doable!
Totally!
Hold up, did u ever say what to do with the liquid?? I watched it twice looking for that 😆 well?? You've got some explaining to do! Lol thx for all the valuable knowledge.☺🌱
Me too !!! Watched twice looking for juice 🧃 lol
hey dear, as my researched I've found out you can use plain Bokashi juice to clear your drains, or you can dilute it 1:100 ratio with water to manuring for your plants
@@vanpham4691 thx😅
What a great, clear informative video. I feel ready to give this a go now! Thankyou! 🌿
Hey Canadians and snow people. What about the long winter? Can we bury it in frozen soil? Will it still decompose as much in the cold or must I store it until spring and then chuck it on in as things thaw?
I simply bury my food scraps straight in the garden without all the fuss and let the worms go to work. Breaks down in about 4-6 weeks and I repeat the process until planting season. Trench composting; easy and painless. But thanks you anyway.
@Cori MacNaughtonim not sold on bokashi either and its seems like an expensive gimmick but each to their own. I cant see the benefit in fermenting food scraps for 2 or 3 weeks only then to have bury it in the soil or a compost pile. If the scraps are just buried or composted straightaway, they would probably break down to the same point over that same 2-3 week period. If takes a little longer to break down than bokashi, then so what? Plus there is the ongoing cost with the bran which you dont have with burying or composting food waste directly. I may be missing something and as I said each to their own.
Do you bury meat, cheese and stuff like that?
I do the same! It is called “Pit composting”, it works great for me.
Cori MacNaughton I put the dirt from the pit on top of the compost in the pit and plant on it right away. So that is immediate use of soil, no waiting.
Rats are a real problem where we live.
Wow took a month to do with worm composting would do in a week. Great.
Been trying Bokashi for 3 or 4 months now. Fed my worm bins and garden compost pile with it. Kept it in garage until this last round-left on back porch with 90 degree N.Florida temps and my barrel was full of tiny maggots? This is using only veggies & fruits. I do compile a food scraps tub on kitchen counter and it takes abt 5 days to fill it-it can get ‘drippy’ & decompose a bit. You mention it should be fresh. Keep in frig? What to do? Return to garage? Hate those lil white creepy crawlies!
It was interesting to learn how this works but I think I will stick with my compost bucket to compoat bin or worm bin. If you can't put in moldy scraps then I wouldn't have enough of them to even get started before the stuff in the bucket got moldy. Another technique that works for me is to build compost in 4 tree pots I got free from a landscaper. Right now they are growing tomatoes, zucchine and peppers but when they come out I will dump the made soil on the garden beds and start composting in them. I'll keep the soil in one or two of them and put some shovelsful of soil on top of the scraps in another pot to deter animals. When that one is full, I'll start another and plant in it next year. Can't have a real compost bin due to living in a condo/HOA community. Plus I am old and not strong.
Glad you got it worked out but I wouldn’t write off bokashi bc “you can’t put in moldy scraps.” Be careful about listening to advice that deals in absolutes. I would say give it a try. It costs little in money and effort to start up, and see if your bokashi microbes can outcompete!
This is so cool we will definitely try it
Thank you so much for the idea 👍
How often should this be done? What should we do with the continued accumulation of food scraps once the composed scraps are already added to the beds/soil? Hopefully, that makes sense.
Just start multiple buckets! I wouldn't over-do it, maybe once per crop
Epic Gardening so with additional food scraps what do you recommend ?
@@denise34moore what I'll do is I'll put a seal inside a 5 gallon bucket. Silicone is good, but you can also just fill a few layered plastic bags with water and tie them off. They'll create a water seal. That way it's still anaerobic if you don't fill it up that fast. Once it's full I let it sit sealed for a bit, usually until the second bucket is full. Then, I'll add half to my worm bin and half to my slower compost. The bacteria and worms make short work of it in either case, but you don't want to overload the worms since the bokashi is fairly acidic. So you're always just going between a two bucket system. There are only two people in our household though, so you may want to add a bucket for every couple people in your family.
Similar to Jadam natural gardening (KNF) Jadam was my success story so glad I found it.
AND... my first thought is "how do I get out of continuously buying Bokashi grains?" Ah HAH! use some of the liquid from the bottom to inoculate the next batch, just like I do with sauerkraut. I believe it is the same bacteria ! Or maybe I should just wait for the next video.
That'll work!
It may work. But it could go wrong too. The Bran is not that expensive. If you are filling more than 15buckets a year, just make a batch of Bran yourself.
Sweet! Thanks for the advice!
I don't even have a garden, so I have no idea how I ended up binge watching your videos hahaha but I am really enjoying them and thinking of how I could start something small once I have the outside space for this. Out of curiosity, do different compost methods work better for different plants? Or maybe work better for outside gardens/pots vs inside potted plants? Or is compost generally 'one size fits all'?
What matters is what you are putting in your compost. For Example the compost made entirely out of leaves would not be as much as nutritious as the one made from a balanced number of nitrogen and carbon. Plus plants do have different requirements but all composts work fine.
That is a really good question never thought about this myself. Gardening is fun and rewarding when you start seeing your harvest or flowers blooming.
Home made compost is a good all round soil conditioner. It benefits all types of soil and feeds the essential good bacteria and fungi which are required to make nutrients present in the soil available to your plants. Start small with a few containers. there are many fruit and vegetables you can grow in containers eg. tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, potatoes, cucumbers, beans and peas as well as summer and winter squash and melons. As you are coming into the fall you can plant broccoli, cauliflower and cabbages in containers (choose suitable varieties), onions, leeks, turnips, kohl rabbi, and on the list goes. There is NO comparison between a shop bought vegetable and one you have grown yourself and picked that same day. It is also great stress relief and gets you out in the sunshine in these difficult times. Good Luck with it!!
Great idea to fertilize over winter...
Nice video and clear presentation..i liked it thank you.
Good stuff! Thanks for sharing.
Fascinating. Thanks for the post
You are always the best thank you!
Wait I’d like to know what you do with the liquid at the bottom of the second bucket. Could someone please explain 🙏🏼 GREAT EDUCATIONAL VIDEO! ❤
The juice is super acidic. You could pour it down drains to clear them up or over weeds to kill them. If you dilute it (1tbs of juice for every 2 liters of water), it acts as a fertilizer.
The liquid looks like it'd make a great add to watering cans.
FYI the buckets are already offset by 3-4". Put them inside each other and hold it up to a light. You'll see. No need for the brick. All it is doing is taking up real estate and adding needless weight to your bin. Just sayin. Good video. Thanks :)
The govt charges us for our leftovers that don’t go in our compost, but now after this I’ll know what I will be doing, even tho they’re still charging me for it. Lol. New subscriber. Cheers skipper.
I actually use this method for handling my dogs poo... Although it can be anti pathogenic, I wouldnt recommend burying it in your veggie garden, but I use it elsewhere in the yard. Works great.
Maybe two different bukashi composts, one for edibles and one for aesthetics 🤩
I was wondering if this was an option- dog poo is my households primary form of organic waste I think 😂
So it would be safe for flowers you think, after the bokashi?
@@gretcheneisenman4760 Yes should be safe. It gets processed rather quickly once buried in soil. There are a few youtube vids on it, but you'll find more about the process via google.
Damn homie just threw in veggies that I'd normally eat
Dragonfruit and everything!
Lol
LOL
Probably just an example for the video. Fruit mightve been overripe or otherwise not worth eating.
I actually dig and bury it in the ground, it works fine.
@ 2:28 - Decomposition occurs when anerobic it's not 'wasted' in that sense. but yes I agree with it being a waste to throw scraps. - Keep up the good work anyway :D
Such an inspiration!
Thanks!
crazy! I really thought those potatoes were going to sprout. LOL
What would happen if you mechanically broke down food scraps further before composting? Like with a blender or just smashing it all up? Maybe discard any water that comes out at this time?
Hello, thank you for the video.
At 12:50 you state the whole process took 3.5- 4 weeks. It seems to have taken much longer. For example, one has to collect a ton of food scraps. Then inoculate the food with the bran and let it sit for 2 weeks. Then, one has to place foods in the garden. You had a 1 month update in which the food had not fully been broken down in the garden. You estimated this needed at least another week. This whole process seems to be MUCH longer than 3.5 weeks. The grains along cost 5 lbs for $50.
I think a much better, more efficient and cost effective method is vermicompostinf. I bought a 7 gallon black bin from Home Depot for less than $7. A pound of red wigglers for $24 plust $11 shopping.. I feed them once a week (vegetable, cooked grain (small), fruit and any plant scraps) and they FINISH everything. There is need to wait 1+ month for the food to be broken down. They ate so much and made many castings, I started a second bin! If you are queasy just wear a pear of plastic gloves. It took me 6 months to place my bare hands in the bin.
One recommendation is don't use the lid or make holes very big. The bin has a noxious smell that needs to be aired out. There is no need to drill holes at the bottom either. I'm just conscientious about not adding too much liquid.
For bones, I smash and dry them after making bone broth. I use those as bone meal. I just don't add salt and pepper until after I have removed the bones.
We have a slew of micro-breweries nearby that will give the grain away, or we can dumpster dive it. Throw in some yogurt or spent milk and you're off to the races. I love these hipster dipsticks showing you how to be more self-sufficient with $50 boutique ingredients. Make your own for free. Frugality is indemic.
4:31 an Epic Hoof! Kevin let the dogs out lol
Food is peace!
5L of bokashi bran costs $18 aud in Australia. If I use similar amount shown in the video it’ll end up costing way more than buying $4 per 25L compost directly.
Thank you for your post, i would like to know if i can use the husk rice as pokashi???
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
You too!
Ahh nothing like the smell of anaerobes in the morning! Thanks, nice video. Might give it a go..
Can you also sprinkle or layer in soil as well to save money by not needing to use so much composting grain . Also along with the soul, can you put in worms as well? Thank you 🙏🏼💜🇨🇦
THANK GOD I FOUND THIS! I will be doing a lot of beer the folowing years so this will be perfect for me!
I bought some bokashi powder years ago and have been making my own from my batches from this original batch ever since. You only need to buy bokashi once and then make your own batches from the original batch indefinitely.
How do you do that?
Thank you for the coupon code. I just ordered a bag.
Awesome!
Can I just collect spent beer grain from a local brewery, and do this?
This must be what my town does. We have to separate all food scraps from regular trash so they could compost it down. But I always wondered how they could compost fat, cooked meat, cooked bones and stuff like that
They could still be aerobically composting them. That stuff breaks down just fine.
@@Aaron999 I actually ended up doing some research on this. They convert it into bio-fuel
@@FishingForLife28 That's cool. Wish my town did this.
Thank you for the very informative video. I have only just started looking into this. I was expecting you to pour the liquid in as the bokashi tea. What did you do with the tea/ liquid?
Got my discounted bokashi grains, can’t wait to give it a try!
It's such a fun process, esp during the holidays with lots of extra food scraps!
If you do this in the winter, what would you do with the bokashi when you can’t bury it in your garden? Can you add it to a worm bin?
Can we blend the food items in a blender to chop it up quicker? I’m thinking about getting a cheap blender for compost for my worm farm.
What a great idea!
@@k8ti I I’ll
Where do you find that foam topper insert? Have been unable to find anywhere
thank you! you're really kind.
thanks a lot， quite clear
Maybe we should have blended the garden waste. Anyways this is a very good composting method especially if you're living in the suburb areas.