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Not Your Ordinary Everyday Soil
When you create soil using the bokashi fermenting method, your resulting soil isn’t like the same old everyday depleted soil you buy from your local home improvement store. Your bokashi soil is nutrient rich, moist and filled with beneficial microbes. Something I Learned Last year I created a container garden. To be efficient I decided [...]
Year Two of a Bokashi Lawn
Last year was the first year I sprayed bokashi tea on my lawn. To do so I would mix a concoction of rain water, bokashi tea, a hint of molasses and a little seaweed broth. The concoction was poured into my handy-dandy 2-gallon sprayer and off I would go. When it was empty, I’d fill [...]
Missed Trash Pickup
In the old pre-bokashi days, panic would ensue if we forgot to bring the trash bins to the top of the hill on trash day. The thought of living with full trash receptacles for another week until the trash truck comes around again was something we dreaded. No Problema This morning we heard the trash [...]
Don’t Let Winter Stop You
We’re in the throws of winter and there are two things I’ve learned about bokashi: You can still ferment scraps during the winter Two buckets are better than one Winter Bokashi Before it got too cold, I purchased two trashcans and half filled both with dirt. After my bokashi bucket is full and has fermented [...]
Those Blasted Fruit Flies
It’s been a while since I posted anything new on this bokashi blog. One of the reasons I haven’t posted is because I’ve been battling very annoying pest. Fruit flies. I’m not exactly sure how the infestation began. I believe it’s because we had over ripe bananas sitting a little too long in our fruit [...]
A Teenager’s Bokashi Acceptance
“Mom, the trash stinks! What did you put in it?!” This statement, although may sound like one of criticism, is actually one of acceptance. You see, my teen in her off handed way told me that she has come to appreciate bokashi. Since starting with bokashi in April, I’ve finally trained the family to put [...]
Insects and Bokashi Tea
Since applying bokashi tea to the lawn, I’ve noticed a decrease in certain types of insects. In the summer we often get swarms of little gnats. The annoying gnats would fly around in swarms that seemed like 100 or so gnats (it might have only been 50, but it seemed like more). If you weren’t [...]
Bokashi Tea and the lawn
Since the bokashi tea has been doing wonders for my houseplants and vegetable garden, I decided to use it on the lawn. We have officially converted our lawn to a no-chemical lawn. Well at least a 95% no chemical lawn. I did buy Ortho Vine and Bush Killer in order to get rid of our [...]
Bokashi is Gaining Steam
We are definitely onto something with this bokashi stuff. The San Francisco Chronicle, Salem News and Huffington Post all tout the benefits of bokashi. Even though the Salem News and Huffing Post discuss the same country club, it does much to get the word about bokashi out to a wider audience. Let’s face it, the [...]
Let’s talk about Effective Microorganisms
This conversation will be a high-level conversation because I’m not an expert on effective microorganisms. What I have learned, however, is that they are a synergistic solution for many natural and man-made disasters. Before we talk about disasters, let’s talk about bokashi. The integral part of the bokashi bran mix is the effective microorganisms. Wheat [...]
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